we re expecting parents and students to come back since the shooting. this is ahead of them going back to class wednesday. they will have a modified scheduled trying to ease them back into their schedule. a new piece in the new yorker magazine examines florida s gun laws and the role an nra lobbyist has played there, marianne hammer. she s nearing four decades as the most influential gun lobbyist in the united states. staff writer joins us now. he s not even five feet at all. wields amazing influence around tallahassee. also carries a handbag in her purse generally. has for going on four decades as well. until recently it was a laser-guided pistol. she s been around for a long time.
suggests a majority of americans of all political stripes, republicans, democrats and independents want these common sense guchb reform laws. the challenge is that right now in florida the nra is doing their playbook. governor marianne hammer is saying we ll concede on a couple little points. she will tell her gimp, rick scott, we ll let you have wiggle room on raising the age from 18 to 21. our friend says if n a world that s constantly changing, you need to change slightly. you the american voter have in your hands and in your ballots the ability to stop these bullets from flying in schools across the country. the way to do that is not let them off the hook. the hard right wing has been very effective in this regard. we saw it in virginia, for example, on immigration they
wondered how anyone could let this happen, how our government could let this happen to men, women, and our children. we don t want to take away your guns. we don t want to get rid of the second amendment. we want things to be done to save our lives. we want gun policies that prevent an 18-year-old from killing 17 of our friends. we want mental health tests that won t allow them to purchase these guns. when did politics and money from the nra back more important than our lives. our message is simple and it s never again. to marianne hammer and everyone at the nra and everyone affiliated with the nra, we are not afraid of you. we will not be silenced by anything that you have to say. we are here, our voices are
there. you have the puppet masters in our state. you ve got the nra, you ve got marianne hammer. you ve got the geo group. you have ysi in our state. all headquartered here. so as a young person growing up in the state of florida, it s very easy to see that florida never loved us. we understood what the verdict would be before the verdict ever came out. he was guilty of murdering a young man who is guilty every day, the portrayals of young black people, of guilt and of criminalization every day led to this death. and so it was easy to see that michael dunn would get off when you have that cast of players and people that make money. every single day, chris, by showing young black and brown people as criminals. as menaces to society. and so jordan davis was found guilty that night when he was killed, but michael dunn in a case that should have been open and shut could not be found guilty by a clearly incompetent state attorney who seems to find it very easy to put young black
florida, there s only one conclusion you could have drawn. so we re not confused. we weren t surprised. you ve got state attorney with a history of incompetence. and with ill intent. she s railroaded young people of color into the justice system with adult charges and adult prison. so you ve got her over the case. there s to surprise there. you ve got a governor in our state that goes around the state talking about job, jobs, jobs, but what he really means is jails, jails, jails. you ve got two players in a case there. you have the puppet masters in our state. you ve got the nra, you ve got marianne hammer. you ve got the geo group. you have ysi in our state. all headquartered here. so as a young person growing up in the state of florida, it s very easy to see that florida never loved us. we understood what the verdict would be before the verdict ever came out. he was guilty of murdering a young man who is guilty every day, the portrayals of young black people, of guilt and of criminal