Rubio unveils gun plan focused on school safety

2018 Kemmerer Gazette

2018 Kemmerer Gazette

Marco Rubio announced his plans Thursday to prevent future school shootings, highlighting on the Senate floor temporary gun restraining orders as well as other measures as an option to prevent a shooting like the one last month in Parkland, Florida. I have also been in constant contact with several of the parents of the victims who lost their lives.

Both Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and the White House have expressed interest in red flag laws since the shooting, among others, though it's more likely they would be pursued at the state level in the short term. This killer was a well-known danger to the school district and the Broward Sheriff's office.

Rubio outlined six bills that he either supports or will be introducing following the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting, including creating "gun violence restraining orders" that would allow law enforcement or family members to get a court order to prevent an individual deemed unsafe from buying a gun or remove a gun from their possession.

Trump has said he is disturbed by the level of violence he has seen in video games and movies accessible to children like his son Barron, age 12.

"This tragedy is the result of a massive multi-systemic failure involving federal, state and local authorities who failed to identify the threat he posed and coordinate a response to stop him before he took action". It is this failure which we should focus on by addressing the shortcomings and vulnerabilities in our current laws and policies. "He needs to be having a stronger position and a leadership position that I just don't think came across today".

"Our schools are woefully unprepared to prevent an attack before it occurs", Rubio said. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, to introduce the "Stop School Violence Act" that, if passed, would strengthen school security, and create school assessment and crisis intervention teams to work with law enforcement agencies and school personnel to identify students who could pose a threat of violence.

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The issue of guns continues to be highly polarizing in Congress, raising questions about whether lawmakers will be able to forge the kind of agreement Rubio is looking for on matters that, in recent history, have not been fertile ground for compromise.

A third issue we have uncovered is that federal law appears to discourage school systems from reporting unsafe students to law enforcement.

Under Broward County schools' policies, according to the school promise program, reporting a potentially risky student to law enforcement is the sixth step in the process, not the first.

- Support for a new bill called "Lie and Try", modeled after some states' legislation, which would alert law enforcement and prosecutors of individuals who attempt to purchase guns and fail background checks, "so that they can be investigated and prosecuted".

Fourth, he says we need to strengthen background checks.

Cornyn, who sat beside Trump during his free-flowing, televised meeting on Wednesday, told reporters he believes his modest proposal to improve the background check system for gun buyers was more pragmatic than the more ambitious approach Trump appeared to back. Such individuals could then be prosecuted.

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