Ronald (Ron) Harold JohnsonRepublicans commit to taking lowest roadConservative group escalates earmarks war by infiltrating trainingsTrump allies line up ahead of potentially bruising primariesMORE (R-Wis.). This legislation will codify the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse into law. The Federal School Safety Clearinghouse, located inside the Department of Homeland Security, represents a whole-of-government approach and reflects coordination not just across federal agencies, but with state partners and nonprofit organizations. The Clearinghouse serves as the foundation for an ongoing and coordinated effort to review safety content and recommend best practices to keep schools safe on SchoolSafety.gov.
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We’re still nowhere near finished with the work that needs to be done, though. Even after the mass shootings in Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Sante Fe and Parkland, the majority of schools across the country still don’t believe this tragedy could occur in their commu
Three years after Parkland massacre, what has student activism changed?
While some involved in the post-Parkland activism believe thereâs been a lot of progress since 2018, they still concede there is a long road ahead to tear gun manufacturers away from politics.
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Manuel Oliver, father of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, unveils a traveling mural of a Parkland postcard with images depicting the Feb. 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The event at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla. was part of a âShamecardsâ campaign to push for anti-gun violence legislation, three years after the school shooting on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. [ Miami Herald ]
Father of victim reflects on three years since Parkland school shooting
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Among the 17 students and faculty who were killed in the tragedy was Alex Schachter. Father Max Schachter said not a day goes by where he doesn’t miss his son.
“Every day is hard for me and our family,” Schachter told News4Jax. “I’m not going to be able to teach him how to drive and he would be graduating this year and going to college, and I’ll never be able to get to move him into college and join a fraternity and have a girlfriend and get married. And it’s just all just horrible. So every day is like Sunday for me.”
For decades, federal gun safety legislation spurred by mass shootings has come and vanished in Washington despite pleas from victims, their families and poll after poll showing most Americans support some form of gun control.
Failures have been blamed on the National Rifle Association, fervent Second Amendment activists and opportunistic politicians fearful of offending the powerful gun lobbies and their gun-owning constituents.
Now, with a president in office who once succeeded in banning assault weapons, Democrats holding gavels in Congress, the NRA in financial shambles and the U.S. House disciplining a member who once claimed school shootings could be hoaxes, the political climate in Washington appears to be warming to doing more than talking about gun safety.
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Max Schachter, father of Alex Schachter, who was killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and now is part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission speaks during their meeting at the BB&T Center on June 7, 2018 in Sunrise, Florida. The school safety commission was created after the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in an effort to address several topics in order to prevent future school shootings. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)