via the Sun-Sentinel:
With Stoneman Douglas students watching, Florida House declines to take up assault weapons ban
Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.
The motion failed by a 36-71 vote.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were in the gallery to watch the vote. An Associated Press photo showed Stoneman Douglas junior Sheryl Acquarola, 16, overcome with emotion, alongside several other students.
As the Florida House opened its session Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Kionne McGhee asked for a procedural move that would have allowed it to consider a bill to ban assault rifles and large capacity magazines.
He said the move stemmed from the massacre last week that has refueled a national debate about gun control.
...McGhee said that means the bill would be dead unless the House voted to remove it from the committees and let it be considered by the full House.
A trusted source who wishes to remain anonymous sent me a scanned image of the roll call vote:
While I generally trust this source, I wasn’t 100% certain that this is an accurate vote listing, so I cross-indexed it against the Florida House of Representatives website.
The results are posted at the top of this diary.
If it turns out I’m mistaken about which state reps voted which way, I’ll apologize and issue a full retraction, but something tells me this is accurate.
36 Democrats voted to at least debate banning assault rifles.
71 Republicans voted against even doing that.
(5 of each party didn’t vote at all, and there are 3 vacancies in the FL state house).
(And yes, newly-elected Democrat Margaret Good...did good.)