Good afternoon. Im sarah perry, director partnerships here at the Family Research council and it is my very great privilege to introduce todays lecture and a coauthor of the book upon which it is based, why meadow died the people and polices that created parklands shooter and endanger americas students. As a reminder to those of you in the audience we will be taking questions during the last 1520 minutes and we will let you know when opening it up. The lecture will be archived in our Speaker Series library at frc. Org speakers. When completed we encourage you to share it on your social media platforms. Bill wrote tonight is the untold almost unbelievable true story about the world corruption rot by politically correct policies and willful blindness made the most avoidable School Shooting in history somehow inevitable. Broward county, florida was ground zero for a new approach to School Discipline prompted by radical leftist organizations and enforced by an Obama Department of education
Devos thank you so much, john. I appreciate that and thank you for this important discussion today. I wish the subject need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against anyone on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that refrain today is troubling. Its even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This administration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism and we acknowledge this reality. Jerusalem is israels capital. [applause] devos when President Trump moved the us embassy to jerusalem it was a historic step towards peace in the region. And peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israels right to exist. Israel is a light to the region, but we all know its surrounded by jihadists who embrace people evil and who deny israels existence and violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my own visits to the holy land. They were indelible experience
One of the things of the Derek Sheely Foundation and the ncaa wanted to do was to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningfully impactful. So we have heard so much today about making datadriven decisions or informed decisionmaking, and that is really important. When we cannot make decisions from science, we try to get the best consensus as possible. But science is coming forward. The department of defense and the ncaa is coming together, as they started something called the grand alliance, and the grand alliance has two parts to it. One is something called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. How do we gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public of everyone about the safety of concussions . Or better put, to improve the culture of concussion safety. How do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them . How do we make sure coaches are never asking their players to play through concussions . We are asking for the best
On the issue. Other witnesses include the sheriff of Dallas County florida was also the chair of the marjorie was actual Public Safety commission. From yesterdays, this is two hours. Morning, i want to call this hearing order. The title of this hearing is examining state and federal regulations for an against violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I should surely want to thank our witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and their families and the other families of the tragedies or attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication, turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that temperament tragedy or other families, its just remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which really back to 1998 is where we really had, so the first elected. Members of 56, i know in your testimony, if youre talking about 710 shootings at columbine i
The replay will be available on the as. Pn dereksheely. For those of you that may have come in late one of the things that this foundation wanted to do together was to try to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningful and impactful. Weve learned so much about doing datadriven and informed decisionmaking and that is really important and when we cant make decisions from science would try to make the best consensus possible. Science is coming forward. I mentioned earlier today that the ncaa has come together and started something called the grand alliance. The grand alliance has two parts to it. One is called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. With that how do we actually gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public and everybody about the safety and improve the culture of concussion safety. For example how do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them. How do we make certain that coaches are never asking the player