Students dance to music atop a bus during a Vote for Our Lives rally at the University of Central Florida in Orlando on Oct. 31. Nine months after 17 classmates and teachers were gunned down at their Parkland, Fla., school, student activists faced the moment they had prepared for with marches, school walkouts and voter-registration events throughout the country: their first Election Day.
But the movement has had relatively little effect on voters here, who made a three-point shift toward the Democratic candidate between the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 gubernatorial election, when compared with Florida voters overall. The analysis used results in the first presidential or gubernatorial election after each attack compared with the one immediately preceding. In most cases, the changes were only slightly different from the trends across the state, but they varied widely.
Manuel and Patricia Oliver, parents of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, speak to news media in Miami in June 2018. The politics of Parkland In Parkland, where Stoneman Douglas High School students organized a nationwide March for Our Lives campaign and gun-control advocates spent millions of dollars on statewide elections, Democrat Andrew Gillum carried five of Parkland’s six precincts in Florida’s gubernatorial election.
[Twenty years since the Columbine shooting, it’s this man’s job to make sure there isn’t another one] “If it was just the gun, I would say, ‘Okay, it’s the gun’s fault,’ ” said Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter, Meadow, was killed in the massacre. “But I did an investigation into every facet of how my daughter was murdered. There are multiple failures — from the sheriff, to the mental health system to the monitors at the school. How can you say it’s the gun’s fault?”
After the Sandy Hook shooting, Malloy successfully pushed for major changes to Connecticut gun laws, including universal background checks and a stronger assault-weapons ban.In November, Newtown voters split partisan loyalties in statewide races, supporting incumbent Sen. Chris Murphy , a gun-control proponent, while also narrowly backing Republican Bob Stefanowski in the Connecticut governor’s race. Stefanowski was endorsed by the NRA.
In one Newtown-area state legislative district, voters last year ousted GOP incumbent Will Duff in a race that partially hinged on his vote opposing a statewide ban on bump stocks, devices that allow a gun to fire more rapidly.
Is that why WaPo and every other liberal mass media did everything possible to make school shooters famous? Or was it just for the money.?..
And if the media spread facts instead of giving voice to only gun grabbers the response would be different.
Republicans don't have a problem with dead kids. They only are concerned when that kid is not formed yet so they have a shot at converting that kid into a Republican. Same method the Catholics use to get more worshipers.
sfcpoll The problem seems to stem from gun free zones.
Why is this a surprise? The Constitution is not a toy for the liberalprogressives to modify on a whim, and people care about their rights, while fully recognizing the failures that additional gun laws would not have prevented, but additional mental health laws could have.
POTUS POTUS44 Yankees leadership is under full control of arm lobby... Will never all any law to work against gun&drug running
REPUBLICANS SUPPORT GUN VIOLENCE LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BY GUN VIOLENCE IN LAST 5 YRS. ALONE REPUBLICANS HAVE AND WILL NOT DO ANYTHING ITS UP TO YOU THE PEOPLE TAKE CHARGE WITH YOUR VOTE IN WITH THE YES OUT WITH THE NO REPUBLICANS MUST GO MAKE THEM UNEMPLOYED
WaPo telling more whoppers! 😂😂😂
Yep. That’s the plan. Evil
Did you know... The US doesn't have a National database for stolen guns. Why? This seems like an easy fix.
In America actually giving a shit = left-wing radicalism apparently
Because Republicans want this to keep happening. Think I'm wrong? Then why do they block EVERY attempt to do something about it? If they wanted it to stop, they'd act.
WHY CAN'T REPUBLICANS QUIT THEIR ADDICTION TO HATE AND GREED AND CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY INSTEAD OF TRYING TO DESTROY IT FOR MONEY!!?
Never forget, libs created gun-free zones so killers can have risk-free murder arenas.
Let me just say what Lady Liberty is thinking, Bullshit!
because the GOP has made it abundantly clear that they value guns over lives.
NOT ENOUGH AMERICANS CARE..