(1,7) Since many are asking, I HAVE NEVER MET TRUMP OR BEEN TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Here are facts. Jaime was murdered by a teenage boy who was a FORMER student and out of school for almost two years. He was able to legally acquire his AR 15 and the ammunition.
(2,7) This boy put it in a guitar bag & simply walked into the school. As happens many of cases of gun violence, the killer just walks in. Whatever people want to say, this mass shooting was a failure of gun policy and of human failure to protect and cowardice at that time.
(3,7) For me, any failure to address the gun in this incident is a failure to deal with the reality of why my daughter died. When Betsy DeVos announced her plan to look at Parkland and come out with a report, she specifically said that they would look at everything but the gun.
(4,7) When her completed report was announced, the Parkland families were invited to go to the White House for a private briefing. I refused. I refused to be a part of a report that would make my daughters murder about anything but the gun.
(5,7) This report actually mentioned in two separate places kids get guns either through unlocked guns at home or purchase. They had the chance to address solutions for these items in the report legislatively & did not. These failures are why the report was so poorly received.
(6,7) What is not known to most is following this, White House senior policy advisor Theo Wold reached out to me because I did not go. He & I meet privately in the executive building. No cameras. He said to me that we were aligned on the need to do something about guns.
(7,7) We met for well over an hour. He committed to following up and ongoing dialogue. Unfortunately, I never heard from him again. IF YOU WANT TO SOLVE THE ISSUE OF GUN VIOLENCE YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH THE GUN AND THAT IS WHY I AM VOTING FOR @JoeBiden
