The Latest: Legislators won't hear assault rifle ban bill

The Latest on the deadly Florida high school shooting



Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.

The motion failed by a 36-71 vote.

As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines. The bill had been assigned to three committees but was not scheduled for a hearing. The committees won't meet again before the legislative session ends March 9.

McGhee said that means the bill would be dead unless the House voted to remove it from the committees and let it be considered by the full House.

Republican leaders in the House and Senate say they will consider proposals including raising age restrictions for gun purchases and the red-flag bill regarding temporarily taking away someone's guns if they are deemed a threat to others.

Honestly, there is no real big need to get an assault rifle just yet.

My question here is it that the killing wasn't enough red flag for them to vote for the approval of the bill? Or is it that some of the legislatures are into gun business and wouldn't want their business to take a downside because of the bill?

The incident that happened in last week at Florida high school, leaving 17 people fatally shot up was a horrible thing to have occurred in a school. What safety does our kids have being in their respective schools when they can become victims of gun shooting? This is not something to be encouraged in any way and the State House should do everything in their power to put an end to such thing ever occurring again by supporting the ban of assault rifles.