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• Democrats want a special session to consider gun regulations like stricter background checks.
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• The Education Desk this week, spoke with UCF researcher and psychologist Dr. Kimberly Renk about how to start the conversation.
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• Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody fired off two tweets this past weekend offering her thoughts and prayers to the victims of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. “Horrified and saddened by the tragic and senseless shooting in El Paso,” tweeted Moody last Saturday night, referring to the man who killed 22 and critically injured 24 using an AK-variant semi-automatic rifle with a 30-round magazine. Less than 24 hours later, Moody tweeted, “Tragic news out of Dayton, Ohio.” That news was that a man wearing body armor shot and killed 9 people and seriously wounded 26 with an AR-15 type semi-automatic rifle equipped with a 100-round “double drum” magazine. These tweets went out just after the newly elected …
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• An interim memorial at the former Pulse nightclub is now open to the public. It includes a photo wall and message board to write on.
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• High school students throughout Central Florida will walk out of class for a second time today. It is the second walkout in the two months since the Parkland High School shooting.
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• This isn’t normal. Sunday’s horrific event in Las Vegas is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. For 16 months, Orlando was burdened with this title. Awful as it was to be at the top of of that list, it wasn’t one we wished on anyone else. If it feels like mass shootings are becoming both more deadly and more frequent, it’s because they are. They’ve become such regular occurrences – five in just the last two years – that our reactions have become formulaic. When horror strikes we fall into a predictable cycle that ultimately achieves nothing but to make us just a bit more numb. Politicians and elected officials offer “thoughts and prayers.” Anyone calling for …
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• Central Florida lawmakers are weighing in on gun regulation following the Pulse mass shooting. But at least one local lawmaker isn’t ready to share his ideas yet.
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• Harrowing details are emerging from survivors of Sunday morning’s Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Survivor Angel Colon, who has been hospitalized with gunshot wounds, spoke from a wheelchair at a press conference at Orlando Regional Medical Center.
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• Investigators are searching for a clear motive as Orlando and the world mourn the deaths of the 49 killed at the Pulse nightclub. As they search for answers, Orlando grieves.
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