This morning I spoke with Aaron Bean, a Republican in the statehouse. He said he felt a lot of "angst" around what these students experienced but was not ready to support any particular gun bill.
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Afterward one student, Piero Guerra, 15, said that the governor had been "kind of neutral" on their proposal to ban semi-automatic rifles, but had been "adamant" in his support for mental health reforms.
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The meeting with the governor ended after dark, and afterward, Mr. Guerra and his classmates exited the capitol, where the three buses that had shuttled them to Tallahassee the day before were waiting to take them some eight hours home to Parkland.
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And on the sidewalk, Lindsey Salomone, 15, said that after a day speaking with lawmakers — she sat next to the governor during their meeting — she was ready to go home and do the real work: grieve.
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"I was in the building, my friends were shot in my class. So emotionally I'm pretty much in shock, I'm not feeling anything, actually," she said. "But everybody is telling me: It will come."
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