Florida Lawmakers Open Latest Debate Over Mass Killings
"Does anyone here think we have too many gun laws in Florida?" asked Sen. Tom Lee, a Republican who chairs the Senate's committee on infrastructure and security.
September 17, 2019 at 12:51 PM
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In a state with a painful history of gun violence, Florida lawmakers swiftly condemned shootings that claimed 31 lives earlier this summer in Texas and Ohio.
Florida's state Senate leader said he wanted to get to the root of the problem and assigned a legislative committee to draft new measures that might prevent other mass killings like the ones that killed 17 people in Parkland last year and 49 at a gay nightclub in Orlando two years earlier.
But when that committee met Monday, it was clear that Republican lawmakers had no appetite to consider a flood of new gun laws, especially any that would ban assault rifles or establish a gun-ownership registry, as some Democrats have sought.
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