Florida Legislature rejects weapons ban with massacre survivors en route to Capitol
Source: CNN
The Florida state House on Tuesday rejected a ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines as dozens of survivors of last week's school shooting headed to the state Capitol to turn their grief into political action.
Lawmakers voted down a motion to consider the ban during a session that opened with a prayer for the 17 people killed by a former student last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The vote in the Republican-dominated body was 36-71.
Stoneman Douglas students in the gallery of the Capitol during the vote appeared stunned, according to CNN affiliate Spectrum News 13/Bay News 9.
House Rep. Kionne McGhee of Miami invoked the shooting in asking that HB 219 -- which would ban AR-15 rifles and other assault weapons and large capacity magazines -- be moved from committee to the House floor for questions, debate and a vote.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/us/florida-legislature-weapons-ban/index.html
If the people of Florida want the ban on assault weapons and large mags, they need to vote these legislators out and replace them with ones who do what their constituents want. VOTE 'EM OUT!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Get out the vote to get the GOPer out of your way.
Lady on PBS News Hour tonight said that one of the purposes of the Russian disinformation campaign is to suppress voter turnout. That leaves extremists as a larger percentage of those who do vote. Every voter counts -- be the voter who stands up to put down the RWNJ and Russian interference.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)gyroscope
(1,443 posts)vote the corrupt bribe takers out, repeal citizens united.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Especially when juxtaposed with the Quinnipiac poll mentioned elsewhere that shows 2/3 of Americans favor stricter gun control laws.
So, 2/3 of Americans want stricter laws, and 2/3 of legislators don't. I sense cognitive dissonance, or else a clear demonstrations that our "representatives" don't care what we want.
-- Mal
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)by the NRA, corporations and huge money donors. People without big bucks don't count in today's US. That, is why there has to be a massive effort to vote these people out of office.
mpcamb
(2,875 posts)We're a majority.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I just hope there's not another mass shooting at a school before the mid-terms.
thecrow
(5,519 posts)They should pray for our children that they LIVE !
These legislators are idiot demons without souls.
Want to get involved? Look at http://momsdemandaction.org
And get your torches and pitchforks ready....
This is gonna take a huge wave of people to get done, but we can vote them out.