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guns
Hillsborough Commission delays decision on expanding to 9 single-member districts
The Hillsborough County Commission has delayed its decision on expanding to nine single-member districts and three other changes to the county charter; that came after several members of the public spoke out Wednesday morning against...
Plant High students upset at last-minute change to walkout rules
Students from Tampa Bay and across the country streamed out of their schools Friday in the latest round of gun-safety activism following the February shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland. At a...
Gun safety groups ask Sarasota City Commission to take action on gun violence
In 2011 the Florida Legislature passed a bill that was signed into law by Governor Rick Scott that penalized local governments and elected officials that tried to pass gun safety rules that are stricter than...
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of guns” –Thomas Jefferson To excerpt the end of Gary Wills essay after the Orlando Pulse Mass Killing, “Everyone knows we are not going to do a...
A Cavalcade Of Curiosities Eclipse An Untimely Death
“With great sadness and a broken heart I have to let know all of Adrian’s friends and acquaintances that he is dead. A bright mind and compassionate soul is gone, he was my beloved son,”...
Students organizing March for Our Lives in Pinellas
This Saturday, students from across the country are converging in Washington, D.C. for what they’re calling a March for Our Lives to draw attention to gun violence and school safety; dozens of local marches are...
Americans oppose state preemption on guns & minimum wage: poll
Actions by a south Florida city could end up challenging a Florida law that prohibits local governments from enacting gun laws that are stricter than state laws; and a new nationwide poll suggests that Americans...
Gun safety advocates slam most plans by Rick Scott & Florida Legislature
Florida Governor Rick Scott is proposing keeping people younger than 21 from purchasing guns, keeping people with mental illnesses from purchasing guns and increasing the number of armed law enforcement officers in schools. His proposal...
Activists say Noor Salman is innocent in Pulse shooting
The wife of the man who killed 49 people in 2016 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando goes on trial next week. Noor Salman is charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization and...
Tampa Bay area students getting active on gun control
In Polk County, Florida, one student activist who is taking on the issue of gun control is Kala Tedder; she is a senior at George Jenkins High School. She’s also dual enrolled at Polk State...
Shootings + politicians + the NRA’s money
Seventeen people were murdered at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida yesterday. It was the 18th school shooting in the US in 2018. It was the first in Florida of the year....
Another mass shooting in a school: this time in Florida
This story is in flux. Here’s the latest via the Associated Press and others. 5:20 p.m. A federal official has identified the Florida school shooting suspect as 18 year old Nicolas Cruz, a former student...
