The shooter waited until his 18th birthday to secure an AR-15 from the local gun shop.
Roland Gutierrez: “The shooter waited until his 18th birthday to secure an AR-15 from the local gun shop.”
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Gutierrez discusses the timeline of the shooter's gun purchases.
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At the end of the day, an 18-year-old accessed a militarized weapon on his 18th birthday and again, the next day, and then again, the next day.
It took Rick Scott 23 days after Parkland to do that in Florida. And yet this governor in Texas doesn`t have the fortitude necessary to do the right thing or to listen to his constituents.
Let me be clear. Police waited outside for 77 minutes while children lay dying, wounded, waiting for help that would not come.
He knows better. He`s a lawyer, former attorney general, former Texas Supreme Court justice. He knows the Constitution. He knows better, but yet he doesn`t have the courage to do what`s right.