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Fred Guttenberg said his daughter Jaime’s friends who were “lucky enough to survive” the Parkland shooting have now experienced a 2nd school shooting.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jaime Guttenberg, who was killed in the Parkland mass shooting when she was 14, reacted to the shooting on the Florida State University campus on X Thursday afternoon, saying he is “not surprised” that another shooting has taken place in Florida.
Guttenberg’s son was also in the building at the time of the shooting and fled to safety. He has prolifically rallied for gun control since that day in 2018, including speaking at the senate. He also famously interrupted President Trump’s State of the Union address in 2020, which he later apologized for.
In his post, he wrote, “America is broken.”
Guttenberg said several of his daughters friends who were “lucky enough” to survive Parkland now attend FSU.
“Incredibly, some of them were just a part of their 2nd school shooting and some were in the student union today,” he said. (The shooting was reportedly in the area of the student union building.)
“As a father, all I ever anted after the Parkland shooting was to help our children be safe,” he went on to say. “Sadly, because of the many people who refuse to do the right things about gun violence, I am not surprised by what happened to you.”
His full post is embedded below.
Josh Gallagher, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas student who survived the shooting, posted on X that he was on FSU’s campus during the shooting, writing on X: “After living through the MSD shooting in 2018, I never thought it would hit close to home again. Then I’m in the FSU Law Library and hear on alarm: active shooter on campus. No matter your politics, we need to meet—and something has to change. Prayers to the victims and families.”
David Hogg, another Marjory Stoneman Douglas student who survived the shooting and has recently emerged as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, also spoke out as news of the shooting was released.
He criticized a recent decision by the Florida House of Representatives to walk back a law implemented by former-Gov. Rick Scott which raised the minimum age to purchase guns in Florida. The law was implemented in the wake of Parkland to attempt to stop future tragedies. The new bill, which has not been approved by the Senate yet, would lower the age to purchase rifles to from 21 to 18.
He wrote: “3 weeks ago, the Florida House voted to repeal gun safety measures won after the Parkland tragedy. Florida Republicans are actively trying to repeal the life saving measures passed after Parkland even as school shootings continue.”
Earlier Thursday, he wrote on X, “It is absolutely horrific that this continues to happen time and time again as our politicians continue to only send their thoughts and prayers. We must do more to end this epidemic of gun violence.”