TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Rep. Randefine, recently elected to the Legislature, is revisiting the debate on guns on university campuses following the fatal mass shootings at Florida State University.
The fine was a state senator in Tallahassee, and after voters sent him to Washington, D.C., he introduced Senate Bill 814, allowing students to carry hidden firearms on campus.
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During the Senate hearing on the bill, the then-senator pleaded to approve the measures to allow lawmakers to move to the Senate floor. He told them he introduced the bill after Jewish university students felt they were being abused during pro-Israel protests.
“At that point, if the school doesn’t protect these kids, they’ll make sure they can protect themselves,” Fein said.
Lawmakers had more to add his attempts to gain support for his bill.
“There is no field of magical power to prevent guns from appearing on our university campuses. There is no one,” Fine said. “Now there are guns on university campuses. A lot of them. They’re being carried by people who just don’t follow the rules.”
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Senate Democrats on the Criminal Justice Committee pushed back. Senate minority leader Jason Pizzo opposed the measure.
“If there was a bill that spoke to more funds for security, more funds for armed security for student protection, I would be all for that,” Pizzo said.
Pizzo represents voters near Miami-Dade and Broward County, and there is a debate that he may run for governor.
“My other son is enrolled in college this fall. I don’t trust his fellow classmates have a gun in their dorm room. I won’t,” Pizzo said.
One of Fine’s final bills in the Florida Legislature failed to move forward after 4-3 votes.
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Republican Sen. Ileana Garcia, who left Miami, joined the Democrats and voted.
Garcia recently posted on X, some of them:
“I have zero regrets. I’m proud to vote against your Moronic Campus Carry Building. It was without a member of the House. This decision was not partisan politics. It was rooted in common sense.”
I posted to X by calling Garcia “a so-called Republican.”
Last month, a bill to lower age to buy firearms from 21 to 18 passed the state capitol. So far it is unclear whether its fellow Senate Bill 920 will make it on the floor for votes.
