Good afternoon. Im sarah perry director of partnerships here at the Family Research council and it is my very great privilege to introduce todays lecture and coauthors of the book upon which it is based. Why meadow died some of the people in policies that created the park when shooting and in danger of americas students. As a reminder to those of you in the audience, we will be taking questions during the last 15 to 20 minutes of this lecture. We will let you know when we are opening it up and the lecture will also be archived in our Speaker Series library frc. Org speakers. When completed we encourage you to share it on your social media platforms. Bill bennett wrote that why meadow died is the untold almost unbelievable true story of how the moral corruption brought by politically correct policies and willful blindness made the most avoidable School Shooting in history somehow inevitable. Broward county florida was ground zero for a new approach to School Discipline prompted by radic
Good afternoon. Im sarah perry, director partnerships here at the Family Research council and it is my very great privilege to introduce todays lecture and a coauthor of the book upon which it is based, why meadow died the people and polices that created parklands shooter and endanger americas students. As a reminder to those of you in the audience we will be taking questions during the last 1520 minutes and we will let you know when opening it up. The lecture will be archived in our Speaker Series library at frc. Org speakers. When completed we encourage you to share it on your social media platforms. Bill wrote tonight is the untold almost unbelievable true story about the world corruption rot by politically correct policies and willful blindness made the most avoidable School Shooting in history somehow inevitable. Broward county, florida was ground zero for a new approach to School Discipline prompted by radical leftist organizations and enforced by an Obama Department of education
School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the
On the issue. Other witnesses include the sheriff of Dallas County florida was also the chair of the marjorie was actual Public Safety commission. From yesterdays, this is two hours. Morning, i want to call this hearing order. The title of this hearing is examining state and federal regulations for an against violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I should surely want to thank our witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and their families and the other families of the tragedies or attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication, turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that temperament tragedy or other families, its just remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which really back to 1998 is where we really had, so the first elected. Members of 56, i know in your testimony, if youre talking about 710 shootings at columbine i
Witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and their families and the other families of the tragedies or attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication, turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that temperament tragedy or other families, its just remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which really back to 1998 is where we really had the first directed attack. 710 shooting since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed. 12 students, one teacher. 20 one were injured. Sandy hook in 2012. 26 killed, two injured. Parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Toll ish and casualty simply unbelievable, honestly. I grew up in the 50s and 60s. We were concerned about nuclear holocaust. We would hold drills and tuck under our desks. We never had to worry about somebody entering our school and opening fire. This is