Democrats in Florida’s Legislature have filed more than a dozen gun control bills – which even the party’s lawmakers acknowledge are likely to go nowhere – less than two months after the “Gunshine State” legalized open carry.

The routine submission of gun control legislation with nothing to show for it prompted a leading gun violence prevention advocate to reprimand Democrats in Tallahassee. A number of the bills are introduced year after year and quietly meet the same fate.

“Unfortunately, in the state of Florida, the majority of those on the Democratic side have just become weak,” said Fred Guttenberg , whose teen daughter was killed in a South Florida school shooting. “They’ve forgotten how to fight; they’ve accepted the idea that they can’t accomplish much, and I think they’re mist

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