Fred Guttenberg — whose daughter Jaime Guttenberg was killed throughout the 2018 bloodbath in Parkland, Florida — mentioned he heard from “dozens of individuals” on Thursday who skilled each that capturing and one which left two individuals useless and injured at the least six others at Florida State College.
“To say I’ve spent the afternoon type of shaking can be an understatement,” Guttenberg mentioned in an interview with MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart.
Numerous former college students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty — the location of the deadliest highschool capturing in U.S. historical past in 2018 — skilled one more faculty capturing Thursday when a gunman opened fireplace round lunchtime outdoors the FSU scholar union.
Parkland is roughly a 6.5-hour drive from the college in Tallahassee.
College students elsewhere have been two-time survivors of faculty shootings. A number of college students at Michigan State College, the location of a 2023 capturing, additionally had been at Oxford Excessive Faculty outdoors Detroit when a gunman killed 4 individuals and wounded seven in 2021.
Guttenberg advised MSNBC that his daughter can be graduating faculty this yr had been she alive at present and, in a submit on social media, famous that “many” of his daughter’s pals attend FSU, together with some who had been on the scholar union on Thursday.
“As a father, all I ever wished after the Parkland capturing was to assist our kids be protected,” wrote Guttenberg, an anti-gun-violence activist since his daughter’s killing. “Sadly, due to the many individuals who refuse to do the suitable issues about lowering gun violence, I’m not shocked by what occurred at present.”
Guttenberg used his MSNBC look to slam Donald Trump, who was additionally president on the time of the Parkland capturing.
The state of affairs “angers me past measure due to what he didn’t do again then,” Guttenberg mentioned of Trump, who claimed that “the gun doesn’t do the capturing” in response to the FSU bloodbath.
He added that Trump has been “systemically undoing the whole lot good” that he and different anti-gun-violence activists supported throughout President Joe Biden’s tenure.
He particularly pointed to Trump shuttering the White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, which Biden established in 2023, and different methods the president has rolled again his predecessor’s actions on gun management.
“And so if anybody is shocked that he’ll do nothing after at present, you shouldn’t be,” Guttenberg mentioned.