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School Shooting Puts Pressure on Florida Lawmakers to Act

By T. SPENCER
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) —
The deadly shooting at
a Florida high school has
put pressure on the state's
Republican-controlled
Legislature to consider
a sweeping package of
gun-control laws in a state
that has resisted restrictions
on firearms for decades,
lawmakers said Monday.
The legislative effort
coalesced as 100 students
from Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School
prepared to ride buses
more than 400 miles to
the state capital Tuesday
to urge lawmakers to act
to prevent a repeat of
the massacre that killed
17 students and faculty
last week. The suspect,
19-year-old former student
Nikolas Cruz, made his
first appearance in court
Monday. Wearing a
prison jumpsuit, he kept
his head down and did
not appear to make eye
contact with the judge or Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday,
Feb. 19, 2018. Cruz is charged with killing 17 people and wounding many others in Wednesday's attack at Marjory Stoneman
others in the courtroom, Douglas High School in Parkland, which he once attended.
though he responded (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
briefly to someone on the
defense team. A previous His lawyers have said he will death penalty. No decision several legislative leaders firsthand and appeared
appearance was by a plead guilty if prosecutors has been made on that. were taken on a tour of the shaken afterward.
video connection from jail. agree not to pursue the Soon after the shooting, school to see the damage Continued on Page 2