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As students watch, Florida GOP lawmakers debate porn but refuse to take up assault weapons ban

Miami Herald
February 20, 2018 7:53PM ET
Sheryl Acquarola, a 16-year-old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the state House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large-capacity magazines at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. Mark Wallheiser AP

As students watch, Fla. lawmakers debate porn but refuse to take up assault weapons ban

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A move to push a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines directly to the Florida House floor Tuesday afternoon was rejected on mostly party lines, six days after a gunman killed 17 people and injured several more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

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