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- Title
Inside the 23<sup>rd</sup> Congressional District (FL) Gun Violence Task Force: Real-Time Crisis Policymaking in the Wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Shootings.
- Authors
Brezenski, Thomas F.
- Abstract
On February 14, 2018, one of the most horrific school shootings took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people, 14 of them Stoneman Douglas students, lay dead at the hands of gunman Nicolas Cruz who meticulously hunted his victims down with a semi-automatic rifle. Six years after the tragic school shootings in Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, the unthinkable had happened again in a U.S. school. After Sandy Hook, there was outrage, and there were task forces formed and cries for greater gun control, but as the days and months passed and the spotlight faded, very little had changed with regard to mental health policy or gun control, although Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza utilized a Bushmaster XM15-E2S semi-automatic rifle during the killings of the children at the school (CNN Library, 2017), and the conclusion by investigators was that Lanza had multiple mental health problems and had not received proper treatment. One of the problems was that the victims were very young, and the survivors could not adequately speak up in the aftermath. Parkland would be fundamentally different and demand a new and swift type of response that would manifest itself in a style of political public policymaking that would produce tangible results in just two weeks. This is the story of that process.
- Subjects
SCHOOL shootings; MASS shootings; CRUZ, Nicolas; GUN control in the United States; SANDY Hook Elementary School Massacre, Newtown, Conn., 2012
- Publication
Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (1947-2900), 2018, Vol 10, Issue 1/2, p35
- ISSN
1947-2900
- Publication type
Article