Florida Gov On Tightening Gun Laws: ‘Everything Is On The Table’

President Donald Trump speaks during an infrastructure summit with governors and mayors as Florida Gov. Rick Scott looks on in Washington, DC, on June 8, 2017. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday he is willing to look at “everything” in order to keep kids living in his state safe from another gun massacre like the one that occurred a day earlier at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

“Everything’s on the table. I’m going to look at every way that we can make sure our kids are safe,” he said during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I’m going to do whatever I can do to keep these kids safe, I’m going to talk about every issue to keep these kids safe.”

That includes looking at gun control policy in his state, Scott said, which has some of the loosest gun laws in the nation. The state doesn’t require a buyer to have a permit or a license in order to own a gun, for example.

“We’ve got to figure something out,” he said. “We cannot let this pass without making something happen that hopefully, and it’s my goal that this will never happen again in my state.”

The governor’s comments come as Congress and the White House grapple with how to respond to yet another school shooting, which left 17 people dead after a 19-year-old former student entered the school and opened fire with an AR-15. Wednesday’s deadly attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was the deadliest school shooting since the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, five years ago.

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  1. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    Obviously the governor has not yet gotten his talking points from LaPierre

  2. Admitted Thief Rick Scott says what?

    What he means is, it’s on the table until we sweep it off into the trashcan.

  3. Avatar for wlarip wlarip says:
    ‘Everything Is On The Table’
    

    Including money from Republican Party for his senatorial campaign and an endorsement from his beloved President.

  4. “We’ve got to figure something out,” he said. “We cannot let this pass without making something happen that hopefully, and it’s my goal that this will never happen again in my state.”
    Something happening …in a State with an NRA funded Republican supermajority. OK
    How will you ever spout enough bullshit to get you to the next mass killing which given the number of guns and crazy people in Florida is inevitable
    The only way things change is putting the NRA out of Business and Democrats in control

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