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    Title: Letter from Minority Leader Hortman to Speaker Daudt on school safety
    Article Date: 5/19/2018
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    File: 051918_letter.pdf 

    Text: May 19, 2018

    Speaker Kurt Daudt
    463 State Office Building
    100 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
    Saint Paul, MN 55155

    Speaker Daudt:

    The purpose of this letter is express the shared urgency of our Caucus to pass stand-alone
    legislation for school safety measures immediately, before the final day of the 2018 legislative
    session. Minnesotans deserve a stand-alone school safety bill that addresses the needs of schools
    and responds to the voices of students and parents demanding action to keep our children safe.
    This legislative session began with the devastating school shooting at Marjory Stoneman
    Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. This legislative session is ending with another horrific
    tragedy in Santa Fe, TX. The death of these students in Santa Fe marks the 22nd school shooting
    in 2018.
    Members of the DFL House Caucus have tried repeatedly to advance common-sense gun safety
    legislation, including criminal background checks on all gun purchases and red flag laws that
    would put extreme risk protection orders in place. Your failure to move these common-sense gun
    safety measures is extremely disappointing. We want students to be safe at school, but also on
    their way to school, at the movie theater, the shopping mall, their houses of worship, and
    everywhere else.
    With that said, we hope you will be motivated to move forward on the school safety measures
    where we have bipartisan agreement and can move quickly.
    With our own history of school shootings in Minnesota, it could soon be too late for us to act to
    stop the next event. Students are begging for us to put politics aside and act now, and we are
    willing to work together on a bipartisan stand-alone proposal today.
    Sincerely,

    Melissa Hortman Jim Davnie
    State Representative - District 36B State Representative - District 63A

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