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Florida’s Office of Safe Schools Facing Personnel Shortages, Extended Safety Needs

September 30, 2021September 29, 2021 Grant Holcomb

In 2018, the State of Florida launched the Office of Safe Schools within the Department of Education to determine the best practices to ensure Florida’s schools remain safe in the years following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

The office is scheduled to sunset in July 2023, and the chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission in concerned about the office going forward regarding personnel and safe plans not being executed.

As Exhaustive Parkland Report is Released, Father of Victim Seeks Accountability

January 7, 2019January 6, 2019 Admin

Andrew Pollack, the father of a teenage girl who was killed in a school shooting in Florida last year, was appointed to the state Education Board by outgoing Gov. Rick Scott. Scott appointed Pollack to the board Friday. Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was one of 17 people killed at a…

Second Amendment Groups Vow to Fight Minnesota DFL’s Gun Control Efforts

December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 Anthony Gockowski

The only thing barring Democrats from total control of Minnesota’s government is a one-seat Republican majority in the Senate, but that might not be enough to block gun-control efforts during the upcoming session. Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka (R-Nisswa) recently indicated that he has “some openness” on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL)…

Correcting the Media Misinformation About Arming Teachers

July 8, 2018July 7, 2018 Admin

by James D. Agresti Misinformation can be deadly, especially when it comes to issues like school shootings. This is because it can build support for policies that increase fatalities and generate opposition to reforms that can save lives. Despite these high stakes, a wide array of media outlets have…

New Book ‘#DUPED’ Shoots Down All Of Hogg’s Rhetoric

June 24, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by Molly Prince Constitutional lawyer and New York Times best-selling author Mark Smith combats David Hogg’s rhetoric in his latest book, “#Duped,” which serves as a response to the newly-minted gun-control activist and Parkland graduate’s recently released book, “#NeverAgain.” Smith exposes the left’s celebration and exploitation of students in order…

Sharp Partisan Divide over Arming Teachers to Provide Protection for Davidson County Schools

April 24, 2018April 23, 2018 Admin

School safety - armed versus unarmed protection

In the wake of the terrible school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, many have suggested that allowing teachers who have been trained in the use of firearms, and who choose to be armed, be added as a level of protection at schools throughout the U.S.…

Elected Officials and Law Enforcement Ignore Existing Laws Prohibiting Political Activities and the School Walkouts They Organize

April 21, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

By Robert Romano Indivisible.org is at it again, openly organizing more than 2,300 school walkouts on April 19 and April 20 to call for a “nationwide protest of our leaders’ failure to pass laws that protect us from gun violence,” urging more nationwide gun control laws in the wake of the Parkland,…

Florida School Schooter Wants to Donate Inheritance to Survivors

April 12, 2018April 11, 2018 Admin

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz wants to donate his inheritance — which could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more — to the bereaved families and survivors of his attack, his lawyers said Wednesday. Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the south Florida city of…

Laura Ingraham, Fox News Host, Announces Vacation Amid Advertiser Boycott

April 1, 2018April 1, 2018 Admin

Laura Ingraham will spend a week away from her nightly Fox News program after after nearly a dozen advertisers withdrew their support over her recent comments about school shooting survivor and anti-gun violence activist David Hogg. “I’ll be off next week for Easter break with my kids, but fear not,…

Media Darling David Hogg Ducks Debate With Gun Rights Backer Kyle Kashuv

April 1, 2018April 1, 2018 Admin

by Ginny Montalbano Kyle Kashuv, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, emerged as the most prominent pro-Second Amendment voice among students there after the shooting at the school that left 17 dead. Kashuv, 16, who has been embraced by many conservatives, hopes to debate David Hogg,…

Craig Shirley Commentary: Comforting Lies, Unwritten Rules, and the Ruination of Laura Ingraham

April 1, 2018April 1, 2018 Admin

by Craig Shirley Laura Ingraham might just be the most principled and assertive woman I have ever met. When she believes in her heart that the cause is just, she doesn’t back down come hell or highwater. In a field dominated by two-faced charlatans who rattle sabers at each other…

Bob Corlew Commentary: Our Second Amendment Rights are Timeless

March 31, 2018March 31, 2018 Admin

by Bob Corlew I wish to write in response to former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’ recent Op-ed in The New York Times calling on the repeal of the Second Amendment. In an effort to uphold the law, as a citizen myself, but as a student of the…

‘March for Our Lives’ Organizers Inflate Crowd Size by 400 Percent

March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Admin

The March for Our Lives was big, just not nearly as big as organizers said it was. Multiple media outlets reported that the Saturday gun-control rally in D.C. drew more than 850,000 protesters, citing march organizers, which would have surpassed the massive 2017 Women’s March by more than 300,000.

Parkland Survivor Kyle Kashuv Asks, ‘Trust the Government Even More?’

March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 Admin

Parkland shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv said Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that “we have to hold our government accountable” for its multiple failures that led to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on February 14, 2018, that claimed 17 lives.

Commentary: After the School Walkouts, America Has a Newly Minted Batch of Victims

March 17, 2018March 17, 2018 Admin

Thousands of young people across this country “walked out” of their classrooms on Wednesday of this week — and of course many of those who did (some in elementary school) were far too young to know exactly what was going on. Ostensibly, the goal of the walkouts was to honor…

Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Florida School Shooter

March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 Admin

Prosecutors in Florida said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who killed 17 people last month in a shooting rampage at his former high school. “The state intends to seek the death penalty against defendant Nikolas Jacob Cruz,” the state attorney for Broward County,…

Fact Check: Did Broward Sheriff’s Department Get 23 Calls Beforehand About School Shooter?

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Admin

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said his department received only 23 calls involving shooter Nikolas Cruz or his family before the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Verdict: False Records show that the sheriff’s department received 39 calls requesting service from authorities at Cruz’s family home…

Pressure Mounts for Broward Sheriff to Resign Following School Massacre

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 Admin

With pressure mounting on Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel to resign in the wake of this month’s Valentine’s Day shooting at a school in Florida, a Republican state lawmaker Monday added his voice to the chorus. Rep. Randy Fine [far right in photo above], appearing on “The Ingraham Angle” on…

Trump Says He Would Have Gone into School Unarmed to Stop Massacre

February 27, 2018February 27, 2018 Tennessee Star Staff

President Trump Monday criticized Florida deputy sheriffs who didn’t confront the gunman at a Florida high school, saying he would have gone in unarmed to stop the slaughter. “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Mr. Trump told governors meeting with him at…

Kentucky Congressman Proposes to Repeal ‘Gun-Free Zones Act’

February 27, 2018February 27, 2018 Admin

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where he made the case that since the majority of mass public shootings take place in gun-free zones like schools, the Gun-Free School Zone Act on 1990 – which makes it a crime to bring a gun on school grounds – should…

Commentary: Stop Disarming Teachers When They Enter Classrooms

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 Admin

by Tom Mullen In the wake of yet another mass shooting in a public school, a host of familiar recommendations have resurfaced about how to “prevent this from ever happening again.” Predictably, both sides of the aisle are looking to the government for a solution. Americans have somehow arrived at a…

Jeff Hartline Commentary on Florida School Shooting: Why Didn’t Law Enforcement Do Its Job?

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 Admin

by Jeff Hartline In the aftermath of the Florida School Shooting last week, the handwringing continues. Why didn’t the FBI do their job? Why didn’t the adults in the shooter’s home sense a problem? What drugs was this kid on? Who was monitoring his social media? Why didn’t local…

Dana Loesch on the CNN Town Hall About the Parkland Shooting: ‘There Were People Rushing the Stage and Screaming, ‘Burn Her”

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 Admin

A seething Dana Loesch – outspoken NRA spokesperson and longtime conservative activist – took the legacy media head-on in a fiery speech Thursday morning provocatively titled, “Media Love Mass Shootings.” Reflecting on her appearance at Wednesday evening’s town hall about the mass shooting, produced by CNN, Loesch said: I want to make this…

Harvard Professor Has Nerve to Ask, Post-Florida, ‘Where’s God?’

February 20, 2018February 20, 2018 Admin

A Harvard professor named Steven Pinker went on MSNBC’s “Hugh Hewitt” to ask, post-Florida travesty, “Where was God?” And the media didn’t report God’s response, but if members had, it could’ve easily have gone like this: “Where you put me – out of the schools, out of the home, out…

Trump Criticizes FBI for ‘Missing Signals’ Before Florida School Shooting

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Admin

President Donald Trump has criticized the the top U.S. law enforcement agency for “missing signals” before a 19-year-old man carried out a mass shooting at a Florida high school last week. “Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter.

Ohio’s Governor Kasich Calls for Congress to ‘Wake Up’ After Shooting

February 19, 2018June 7, 2018 Admin

The Republican Party needs to “wake up” and consider “common sense gun laws” in response to the latest mass shooting in Florida, Ohio’s Republican Governor John Kasich said Sunday.