money in the budget. if the money was vetoed completely out of this bill and this legislation, it could have made it more difficult to shift money within the budget there. he is right and you are right. $67 millionings not going to be spent on this program. it is a voluntary program and all of the big urban counties in large part because of the outcry from the lawmakers in those counties are not going to opt into this program. they don t want to see more guns in schools. as for scott, why didn t he do more to get lawmakers to take out as we re calling it the armed teachers provision, it s a good question. on one hand, scott s been around long enough that he knows that you don t want to get too far involved sometimes in legislative fights because you wind up just losing. the other thing is there s a delicate balance here for gun control advocates. this bill doesn t go far enough but gun rights folks really hate it. so as a result of having to kind of appease both the right and the left,
i still think a law enforcement officer should be the ones to protect our schools. i ve heard all the arguments for teachers to be armed and while this bill was significantly changed, i m still not persuaded. i know many think this bill has too much gun control. i respect the validity of both these viewpoints. florida governor rick scott who has had an a-plus rating for the nra for his obedience on guns, including urging no legislative action after 49 people were doned down in orlan 2016 and after five people were killed in another rampage at the ft. lauderdale hollywood airport last year, an action that benefitted no one except the nra and it s lobbyist marian hammer that that same rick scott in the republican-dominated florida legislature on friday finally stood up to hammer and the nra after initially refusing to say how he would respond to the bill
rick scott hard. they hit the bill hard but they didn t lay a hard glove on rick scott because they know they need him long run. the very encouraging thing, the lessons out of florida right now is first states can lead where washington fails to. second, citizens can lead. i think we ll see an assault weapons ban on the ballot in florida in 2020. if you are a republican today not speaking about more reasonable gun control, you re out of step with the heart of the country. absolutely. marks, nadine, david, brandon, thank you all. just a quick note, one of the leaders of the student movement, emma gonzalez, will be speaking tonight at the equality florida gala. the organization is honoring student leaders of the stoneman douglas high school gay/straight alliance of which emma is the president. for more information head to equality florida.org/miami gala. coming up, after being okay with donald trump calling nazis good people, calling mexicans
and three weeks after a gunman opened fire at a high school in parkland, florida on valentine s day killing 17 students and teachers, governor scott signed the first gun restrictions in florida in more than 20 years. the new law named for marjory stoneman douglas high school requires a three-day waiting period for gun purchases, bans the sale of bump fire stocks, raises the minimum age for purchasing firearms to 21 and gives law enforcement the authority to temporarily confiscate firearms from those deemed mentally unstable. the nra naturally is suing the state of florida over that common sense gun legislation. by the way, the bill is far from perfect. it also opens the door to surf staffers but not teachers, other than rotc instructors voluntarily carrying concealed weapons in school. a tallahassee democrat says that the bill fails the mandate that every school have an armed school resource officer. and yet the new law fought for
what we have in florida is 67% of florida legislators have an a rating from the nra so this is a little bit of a loosening of the grip but at the end of the day this is perhaps the least you could do to distance yourself a bit from the nra at a moment of intense pressure coming the difference between what happened in the wake of pulse when 49 people were killed and every single promise that rick scott made has been broken or forgotten. this is a contrast. this is obviously progress, but it is so far from what they had a golden opportunity to do. marian hammer s grip on the florida legislature may have loosened a bit, but it s still there. i don t think i think if you check the records probably one of the first phone calls that rick scott made was to marian hammer. i don t think the lawsuit is a surprise, and we really have to treat this as the beginning. the last thing i want to say