Ep. 6: The Victims
It is important to remember that amidst all the questions, failures, investigations and demands for change and accountability after the Parkland shooting, 17 people were senselessly murdered that day. They expected to come home from school and they did not. They were dancers and dreamers, scholars …
Ep. 5: Risk Protection Orders
Experts say that one of the biggest policy changes since the Parkland shooting might be the expansion of RPO’s — Risk Protection Orders. Those are the measures that allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to remove guns from a person deemed a danger to themselves or others. They work dif…
Ep. 4: What Have We Learned about Preventing Mass Shootings?
The confessed Parkland school shooter left clue after clue throughout his life about his violent tendencies and troubled behavior. Yet dozens of people and agencies failed to report it or properly follow through on critical information that might have prevented the Parkland shooting. In this episod…
Ep. 3: What’s Changed with School Safety?
School gates unlocked. School entrances unmanned. A school resource officer who chose not to confront a shooter. These failures highlight some of the catastrophic mistakes made on February 14, 2018 that enabled a determined school shooter to get on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campus an…
EP. 2 What's Changed with Gun Laws?
In the immediate aftermath of the Parkland shooting, much of the debate and discussion focused on guns. Student activists said #Neveragain and rose up at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and across the nation to descend on Washington for a generational march, demanding gun control. While those…
Ep. 1 Grief to Action
For the families of the 17 Parkland murder victims, a part of their lives ended on February 14, 2018. One of their loved ones was suddenly and violently ripped from them and, for many of them, they experienced a turning point soon after where they decided to take their grief and anger from their lo…