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In the wake of Florida’s horrific school shooting, Gwen Graham, a Democratic candidate in the state’s gubernatorial race, called on Gov. Rick Scott to immediately suspend sales and permits of AR-15s and assault-style weapons.
If no action is taken soon, Graham said, Scott’s legacy “will be forever covered in blood.”
Graham, a former state congresswoman, called out the governor and the state’s Republican lawmakers in a statement released on Friday. Her plea comes days after a 19-year-old man confessed to walking into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 assault-style rifle and opening fire.
Wednesday’s massacre left 17 people dead and 15 others wounded. The victims included both students and staff.
“Listen to the children who survived this shooting and the mothers who lost their kids,” Graham said. “I stand with them in demanding our leaders take action now.”
Graham pointed out that the gun used in Wednesday’s attack was similar to the weapon used during the horrific shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando two years earlier. The Orlando shooter reportedly used a .223 SIG Sauer MCX rifle, killing 46 people and injuring 53 others.
“After the largest mass shooting in modern American history, Rick Scott sat on his hands,” Graham said. “After 13 school shootings, Rick Scott looked the other way. After the massacre of children, Rick Scott won’t even say the words commonsense gun safety laws.”
“If Rick Scott and Republicans in Tallahassee won’t even confront the problem we face, how can we expect it to ever stop?” she added. “Rick Scott’s legacy will forever be covered in blood.”
Scott’s legacy is already covered in so much blood. The Orlando Weekly provides a long list of action Scott has taken to crush gun control. Plus, Scott is trying to put the blame on someone else for his fuck up:
Earlier this week, Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a South Florida high school with a legally purchased AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Last month, someone who knew Cruz warned an FBI tip line that the 19-year-old owned guns, had a “desire to kill people,” and could potentially target a local school. Under FBI protocols, this information should have been forwarded to the Bureau’s Miami field office — but it was not, the FBI revealed in a statement Friday.
Christopher Wray has been the director of the FBI since last September. He has had no involvement in managing the Bureau’s tip line or Miami field office, and thus, had no means of knowing that the latter had failed to follow up on a tip about Cruz.
Rick Scott has been governor of Florida for seven years. Throughout that time, he has done everything in his power to ensure that people like Nikolas Cruz would be able to legally purchase AR-15 assault rifles. Scott is literate and has access into the internet, so he had a means of knowing that such weapons have been repeatedly used to perpetrate mass shootings in the United States, and that banning assault weapons has effectively reduced the incidence of mass shootings in other nations.
This year, let’s undo Scott’s bloody legacy. Click here to donate and get involved with Graham’s campaign.