Crime & Justice

How the Horror of Parkland Led a GOP Politician to Buck His Party

CIVICS LESSON

Florida state Senate President Bill Galvano saw the bloody walls and knew he had to act, whether his fellow Republicans liked it or not.

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A Valentine’s Day card on the blood-spattered floor, along with school papers and shell casings.

Red and white carnations poking out from an abandoned backpack. 

Books and binders left open on desks, others scattered in the scramble to escape.

Bullet holes.

More blood, spattered on walls. 

“It was as if somebody took a milk jug of...

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