The Parkland massacre (Florida) turns six years old – 2024-02-17 08:14:50

Organizations that advocate for gun control in USA This Wednesday they urged the Government of Florida “not weaken” state laws established after the school shooting Parkland in which 17 people died six years ago today.

With vigils and several public and private events, the families of the victims remember this Wednesday the shooting that occurred on Valentine’s Day 2018 at the high school Marjory Stoneman Douglasin which another 17 people were also injured due to shots fired with a rifle by Nicholas Cruz.

Likewise, organizations such as Everytown for Gun Safety, Students Demand Action y Moms Demand Action They urged the Government and the Florida legislature not to reverse the laws that arose from this tragedy.

The groups specifically referred to the Public Safety Law enacted by former Republican governor Rick Scottwhich included allowing the temporary removal of firearms from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

It also established raising the age to purchase all firearms to 21 years, and creating a three-day waiting period for the purchase of firearms to allow time for background checks.

The groups complained that Florida lawmakers are working to weaken and undo this bipartisan gun reform legislation.

«My classmates and teachers should be alive today. Nothing can take away that pain, but honoring his memory with actions is what keeps me going.”he expressed this Wednesday in a statement Sari Kaufmansurvivor of the shooting.

“If extremist lawmakers want to repeal the gun safety laws their Republican colleagues passed after the shooting, then we will come and take their seats. “Our generation will never again accept gun violence as the norm.”added Kaufman, who is a volunteer leader of Yale University’s Students Demand Action chapter.

“The memory of those we lost continues to be a guiding light for the gun safety movement”he said for his part John Feinblattpresidente de Everytown for Gun Safety.

Angela Ferrell-Wideexecutive director of Moms Demand Action, lamented that politicians who choose to forget the devastation of this shooting “are condemning Florida to repeat this tragedy.”

Everytown has identified at least 1,187 shooting incidents on school grounds from 2013 to the present.

Every day in the United States, 120 people die from firearms, almost twice as many are shot and wounded, and many others witness acts of gun violence, the group stressed.

Cruz, who was 19 at the time, confessed to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison in 2022 after a trial in which all twelve jurors voted against applying the death penalty.

The aggressor was a student at the school, where he entered armed without being detected at security checkpoints and unleashed what is today the third mass shooting at a US school with the most victims (Sandy Hook y Uvalde They are the first and the second). Fourteen of the victims were students and three were teachers. EFE (I)