Parkland Parent: I Don’t Even Know What ‘Sometimes Its the Guns’ Means

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Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was one of the 17 killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, told Fox News Digital after Tuesday’s debate that “in the 6½ years that I have been working on school safety, what I’ve learned about how we protect our nation’s schools tracks much more closely with the response JD Vance gave than anything Tim Walz said.” 

“I don’t even know what he means when he says, ‘Sometimes it’s the guns,’” Petty said when asked about Walz’s remarks. “It has nothing to do with guns. The causes of school violence are not the freedoms that we enjoy and the rights that we have under the Second Amendment.  

“The problem is much deeper and requires a more comprehensive solution, and JD Vance was much closer to the answer. We got to protect our schools. we got to increase the security there. Having more school resource officers on campus as both a deterrent and a last measure to stop an attack once it starts is exactly the blueprint we followed here to protect Florida schools after Parkland,” he added. 

— Greg Norman in Vance-Walz debate: Parkland parent, school safety expert says one candidate closer to the answer

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  1. Trying to imagine school boards and the teachers union spending tax money to benefit the children…….. hopefully it’s just a NY thing but it sounds like a sick joke.

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