MIAMI – A congressional delegation, both Republicans and Democrats, walked facet by aspect into the 1200 developing of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Friday.
“I walked by that developing a thirty day period ago, I arrived out of there and I was indignant, and reported, ‘I have to have just about every member of congress stroll through this setting up,'” mentioned mother or father Max Schachter.
He misplaced his son Alex.
The thought of finding congressional customers to tour the college arrived from him.
Following the tour, dad and mom and congressional users shared tips.
“You men coming through now just to see it and working experience it, you can go through about it all working day extensive, you can discussion it all working day long but it’s not the identical as heading and walking by the university,” said Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz.
He and Republican Mario Diaz-Balart labored jointly to make it materialize.
“Now witnessing, likely by that setting up and witnessing just one of the most horrific functions,” explained Diaz-Balart, “it is tricky not to recognize just how evil that is,” he mentioned.
Also, on the tour from South Florida, were being Republican Congressman Carlos Gimenez, and Democrats Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Frederica Wilson.
Republicans and Democrats will not agree on significantly when in arrives to gun laws, but they each individual place out there are other spots the place they can do the job jointly.
“The hope is that we can figure out how these mother and father, who’ve focused their lives to this problems, how we get the job done with them,” spelled out Moskowitz, “So that we are defending young ones.”
Diaz-Balart stated, “There are factors that are no-brainers that we want to continue to get collectively.”
Schachter explained it boils down to Congress passing legislation to prioritize security and protection at college.
“That we can appear with each other and we can enact common sense college protection options,” he ongoing,” protection has to come in advance of training for the reason that you can not teach useless little ones.”
