Kamala Harris tours bloodstained building where 2018 Parkland massacre happened

Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday toured the blood-stained classroom building where the 2018 Parkland high school massacre happened, accompanied by some victims' family members who are pushing for stricter gun laws and improved school safety.
After her visit, Harris announced the launch of the National Resource Center for Red Flag Laws, a program to provide technical assistance and training to Florida and the other 20 states that have similar “red flag laws."
Florida’s law allows officers, with a judge’s permission, to temporarily seize guns belonging to anyone shown to be a danger to others or themselves.
The statute has been used more than 12,000 times since it was enacted six years ago in response to the Parkland shooting.
"This National Resource Center will be a place where we will, through that, provide for training for local leaders on how to use red flag laws and keep communities safe," said Harris.
Harris also challenged other states to pass a red flag law.
"See how these leaders and these parents, through their advocacy born out of tragedy, have changed some of the laws in this state, including on that issue, to the betterment of everyone," said Harris. "These are just but some of the ways that we can learn from what happened here."
Harris' visit is the latest by elected officials, law enforcement and education leaders in recent months to the boarded-up, three-story building, which stands on the north side of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The tragic landmark has loomed over the school's 3,600 students from behind temporary fencing since the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting that left 14 students and three staff members dead and 17 wounded.
Former student Nikolas Cruz, then 19, fired about 140 shots from his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle during his six-minute attack. He pleaded guilty in 2021.
Some Stoneman Douglas families who participate in the tours, along with President Joe Biden, want the sale of AR-15s and similar guns banned, as they were from 1994 to 2004, but there isn't sufficient support in Congress.
Opponents, which include other victims' families, argue that such a ban would violate the Second Amendment and do little to stem gun violence.
The building where the Parkland massacre happened was preserved as evidence for the 2022 penalty trial of Cruz, who received a life sentence instead of the death penalty, angering the victims' families.
The structure also was saved for the trial of the school’s sheriff’s deputy, Scot Peterson, who was acquitted last year on charges that he retreated instead of confronting Cruz.
The Broward County school district plans to demolish the building this summer over the objection of some victims’ families who want to show it to more officials.
"This school is soon going to be torn down, but the memory of it will never be erased," Harris said.
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