After Vice President Kamala Harris announced plans to walk the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a parent of one of the victims of the 2018 school shooting said the school’s He expressed his dissatisfaction with the obvious “promotion” and “promotion.” Gun control.
Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter Alaina Petty was tragically killed in a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida in February 2018, said his high school was used as a “photo shoot” for politicians. “I’m disgusted,” he told FOX News Digital. They would rather “promote” their gun control agenda than understand the circumstances that led to the tragedy.
“What’s frustrating to me is that this building should have been torn down years ago, and now it’s being used as a photo op by politicians trying to push their agenda,” Petty said. said. “But politicians, frankly, don’t understand what it takes to protect our nation’s schools. They don’t understand the causes of the Parkland tragedy.”
“They don’t understand what caused the tragedy and are just there to promote gun control policies,” he said. “I’m sick of it. It has to stop. The building has to be torn down.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an “America’s First” campaign rally at South Carolina State University on February 2, 2024 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Vice President Harris is scheduled to visit the school grounds on Saturday with families who lost loved ones in the massacre, which left 14 students and three adults dead and 17 injured.
Petty said Harris’ visit was a “slap in the face” to families of school shooters who have spent six years working to solve school shootings.
“The vice president and the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention made it clear to families early on that nothing short of new gun laws would satisfy them in order to protect our nation’s schools,” he said. “And that’s just a slap in the face to those of us who have worked for six years to protect our nation’s schools.”
He said there are “many ways” the United States can protect children without “violating Second Amendment rights.”
“There are many ways to protect our children and school teachers without violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners across the country,” Petty said. “But the vice president and the Office of Gun Violence Prevention don’t want to hear those solutions. What they want to do, frankly, is create an opportunity for the vice president to spout talking points on gun control. It’s a sacred place at this point.”
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“I find the whole thing offensive,” he added.
I find everything unpleasant.
Photos of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting will be displayed at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2023, to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the shooting. . (Saul Martinez/Getty Images)
The father of one of the Parkland shooting victims noted that a recent visit by Secret Service agents gave the family an opportunity to discuss the details of the school shooting tragedy.
“A good visit is one like the one with the U.S. Secret Service that came through the school building a few weeks ago. I was a part of that. There was no press or media involved, no opportunity.” But so we can take pictures,” Petty said.
“What we did in conjunction with the Secret Service is we explained to them what happened that day so they could learn from it,” Petty said. “And let me tell you that the team that was there, including the Secretary of the Secret Service, was moved by what they heard that day.”
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Petty said she was able to demonstrate to law enforcement that she walked into the English class her daughter Alaina was attending when she was shot and was unable to find a safe place inside the classroom. .
“We guided them through the process and explained how the shooter entered the campus, how he entered the building through an unlocked door, and how he made his way into the hallways and classrooms. and how he fired indiscriminately at everything he saw,” Petty said.
“I was able to go into the classroom where Ms. Alaina was killed,” he said. “And I showed them where she was sitting, and they saw that she couldn’t get into a safe part of that classroom, a place where the shooter couldn’t see her. All of this. “That’s what I want in a vice president.” ”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an “America’s First” campaign rally at South Carolina State University on February 2, 2024 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Petty said deadly school shootings can be prevented by increasing communication between law enforcement and schools.
“What we have learned is that this, like most tragedies, is a preventable tragedy, that there were warning signs and actions before the attack, and that if action was taken, it would not be possible to infiltrate the school. “It means that people who are trying to attack us may be at risk. They will be diverted to another path,” he said.
Petty noted that the FBI received two tips about school attacks but was unsuccessful in contacting local law enforcement.
“The federal government failed to protect and act on information that could have prevented the Parkland tragedy,” Petty said.
Petty said he doesn’t believe the vice president was here not to learn more about the Parkland tragedy, but to promote “desirable solutions” for gun control legislation.
“I think the vice president is there because she believes gun control is the only solution to these tragedies. She stands in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and says she wants “We’re going to tell the country that the solution, gun control, is the only solution. It’s going to work here,” he said.
“I think it’s extremely frustrating. It’s an insult to Florida schools and the families who have worked hard to make schools across the country safer,” Petty said. “She’s just spitting in the face of all of this work because she wants to promote gun control.”
She just spits in the face of all that work because she wants to promote gun control.
I was the FBI agent who told the parents of Parkland the unthinkable.This is what I saw there
Former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker explained that the FBI’s field office received two tips about a possible school shooting. (Fox News)
Former FBI special agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker reacted to the Parkland shooting, saying the FBI did not respond to two tips before the shooting.
“According to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Safety Committee report, the FBI received two pieces of information regarding the killer, one of which was a detailed 13-minute phone call on January 5, 2018. “It was from a friend of the shooter’s family who was concerned that he might commit a school shooting,” Parker told FOX News Digital. “This tip was closed without further investigation by the local FBI field office.”
“Additionally, on September 25, 2017, there was another tip that a civilian in Mississippi noticed a YouTube post from a killer claiming he was the next school shooter. I was transferred to the office,”’ Parker said. “After questioning, no legal proceedings were taken.”
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“I felt an incredible amount of guilt,” Parker said after the shooting.
“Even though I had no involvement in answering these tips, I felt very guilty.”
