Nikolas Cruz exited a Uber outside of Stoneman Marjory Douglass High School at 2:19 p.m. wearing dark colored jeans, a Stoneman Douglass polo shirt, carrying a duffel bag with an ar-15, and a backpack with a vest and ammo. Cruz walked into the 1200 building, wherein a stairwell a student stumbled upon him loading his weapon who left to tell a teacher. Later, Cruz set off a fire alarm, and started shooting into the hallways. After that, he started shooting into different rooms, passing some and entering others. By the end of the shooting, seventeen people had been killed. Walking away with a group of fleeing students, Cruz had escaped. One hour and fifteen minutes after the shooting began, Cruz was found walking on a quiet street and surrendered without strife (Price, Wayne, and John McCarthy). Because terrible atrocities like this keep being …show more content…
You do not need to register, obtain a permit to carry or purchase, a rifle or shotgun in Florida. ("Florida Gun Laws"). This is absolutely ludicrous to be able to buy a gun this easily. More common sense gun laws should be implemented to reduce gun violence. Daniel Webster Professor of Health and Policy Management at John Hopkins University suggested making data on gun sellers safety records publicly available. This would encourage firearms dealers to only sell weapons so individuals they do not believe will commit a crime. In the state of Florida, and many other states mental health checks are not required when purchasing a firearm ("Possession of Firearms by People with Mental Illness"). Regardless of their mental state, if the dealer themselves choose to sell an obviously mentally ill person a firearm, they can. In many states, they do not require any live fire training before firing a firearm (Mascia, Jennifer). This means that even if you have never fired a weapon before, you will still have the ability to own a weapon that can take somebody 's