As the White House prepares to release its proposals for school safety, President Trump met Thursday with families and others touched by mass school shootings.
The family of slain high school student Meadow Pollack, killed in the attack in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, attended the meeting at the White House with the president. The girl’s father, Andrew, gave an impassioned call for action in an earlier meeting with Mr. Trump.
The White House said Mr. Trump was hosting a “discussion with students, parents and law enforcement on gun-related violence in schools and in our communities.”
Among the attendees were Johnnie Langendorff, who stopped the shooter after a massacre last fall at the Sutherland Springs Baptist Church in Texas; Virginia Tech campus Police Chief Kevin Foust; Colorado state Rep. Patrick Neville, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine shooting; and Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden of Sandy Hook Promise, who lost children in the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting in December 2012.
Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi were also attending.
The president is expected to release his proposals Thursday for action to help prevent school shootings, including stricter background checks on firearms ownership, raising the age limit for purchasing certain gun from 18 to 21, and encouraging more adults in schools to carry concealed guns as a deterrent.
• Dave Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.
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