Congressman Dan Goldman Tours Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as Vice Chair of House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
Goldman Joins Rep. Moskowitz and Bipartisan Group of Representatives to Tour Site of 2018 Parkland Shooting; Roundtable Discussion with Victims’ Families and School Safety Stakeholders
Discussion on Path Forward for Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety
Parkland Among the Deadliest School Shootings in American History, 17 Killed and 17 Injured
Congressman Goldman is Vice Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and Chair of the Dads Caucus Gun Violence Prevention Working Group
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Parkland, FL – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) today joined Congressman Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) and Representatives Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-25), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Wiley Nickel (NC-13), and Greg Landsman (OH-01) on a bipartisan tour of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with families of the 2018 Parkland shooting victims. Following the tour, the members and families held a roundtable discussion with stakeholders on school safety and how to prevent future tragedies.
The 2018 Parkland shooting was one of the deadliest school shootings in American history. Using an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle, the gunman, who had exhibited multiple warning signs, killed 14 students and three staff members and injured an additional 17 people.
“Nearly six years later, this high school remains a powerful and sobering time capsule of a mass shooting that could have easily been avoided,” Congressman Dan Goldman said. “In less than four minutes, 17 victims succumbed to indiscriminate violence by someone who should have never had access to a gun. The families and survivors of the Parkland shooting have had their lives upended, and yet Congress still has not done enough to ensure that nothing like this can ever happen again. I look forward to discussing with my colleagues what we saw in that building so that we can do better to protect our children and schools from the public health emergency of gun violence.”
Congressman Dan Goldman is a Vice Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and was recently named as Chair of the Dads Caucus Gun Violence Prevention Working Group.
For two years in a row, gun violence has emerged as the leading cause of death for children in the United States. In 2022, 995 children and 5,157 were either killed or injured by gun violence. This year so far, 847 children and 4,798 teens have been either killed or injured.
Goldman is committed to protecting communities across the country from the dangers of gun violence. Earlier this year, Congressman Goldman cosponsored a package of “red flag” laws to establish a federal “red flag” program and strengthen state and local legislation through the creation of grant programs to support the implementation of extreme risk protection order laws. "Red flag” laws allow a judge to temporarily remove a person’s access to guns when there is evidence that they pose a serious risk to themselves or others.
Earlier this month, Congressman Goldman cosponsored the ‘Responsible Firearms Marketing Act,’ which would direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to study the dangers of unfair and deceptive marketing and advertising practices directed at children which are utilized by the gun industry.
In his role as Vice Chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, the Congressman joined with fellow leadership members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force to condemn the Republican failure to respond to the gun violence epidemic, as well as joining the Task Force in a letter urging Speaker Johnson to use his new authority to bring bipartisan, commonsense gun safety legislation to the floor for a vote.
Last week, as Chair of the Dads Caucus Gun Violence Prevention Working Group, Goldman hosted a roundtable with the Dads Caucus and representatives from Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to discuss strategies for ending the gun violence epidemic.
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