Shooting at HS in Parkland Florida

I can’t sit by and continue to watch this happen. I’m a veteran and a former teacher. Taught at Columbine middle school, in fact. In 1996-97. Never looked at the victim list for fear I had taught one of those kids. When I was issued an M16A2 (cousin to the AR15) at MCRD San Diego we carried it around empty for weeks, spent hours tearing it down and reassembling it until we could do it blindfolded. God help anyone who dropped it or if there was one missing at one of the many safety checks throughout the day. They were secured at night in a manner that would make any security expert proud. Only after several weeks of round the clock training and instruction, Did the USMC deem us worthy to fire it. And then only under the strictest of safety rules. Every round was counted and accounted for. To think that someone can walk into a sporting goods store and walk out a few minutes later with something like that and enough ammo to take down a small town turns my stomach. I’m a huge 2nd amendment guy, but there has to be a way to sensibly restrict who gets these things and how many they can get. There is no practical reason for someone to own a bump stock or a 30 round magazine or a fully automatic anything. Agree that the gun is not the root cause but until we can deal with the systemic failures, we have to address the symptoms in a practical way. I had to take driver’s ed for crissakes and there is no minimum training requirement to purchase a military grade weapon. We HAVE to do something different.