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Florida
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday rejected calls to arm teachers with guns to prevent
school massacres. The stance breaks with a proposal put forth by the
president after a gunman killed 17 people with an AR-15 at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week.
Scott,
a Republican, unveiled a plan to boost school security that would bar
"violent or mentally ill" people from purchasing weapons, prohibit
persons under the age of 21 from buying guns, and outlaw so-called bump
stocks that make it possible for semi-automatic weapons to fire faster. Those
policies are in contrast to positions taken by the NRA.
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