By Veronica Rarick

Yesterday, Gov. Rick Scott proposed a significant move for gun control in Florida in the wake of the deadly Parkland shooting last week. The ideas expressed weren’t up to par with what the student activists want after 17 of their friends and teachers were killed.

Scott favored raising the minimum age for purchasing for purchasing any gun from 18 to 21, a restriction the NRA vigorously opposes, despite President Trump claimed they would “back” the push after he agreed to it himself. .

“Raising the age is not going to solve psychosis,” spokeswoman Dana Loesch told CNN.

The NRA is one of the most powerful interest groups in Tallahassee. Increasing the minimum age would have prevented Nikolas Cruz, the 19 year old Parkland shooter, from legally purchasing the AR-15 used.

Scott also sided with the push to ban bump stocks, an addition to semi-automatic that you can but to make a rifle shoot faster. He also asked for $500 million for mental health and school safety programs. A safety measure he wants to implicate is one armed police officer for every 1,000 students present at the school.

“I want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who has mental issues to use a gun,” Mr. Scott said at a news conference unveiling his proposals. “I want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who is a danger to themselves or others to use a gun.”

His plan prompts a “violent threat restraining order” allowing a court to prevent a violent person from having a gun when a family member or a law enforcement provides evidence. Also, anyone involuntarily committed for mental health treatment would have to forfeit their guns for 60 days.

Persons who commit acts of stalking, cyberstalking, and domestic violence would be prohibited from buying a gun.

U.S Senator Bill Nelson called his plan the “bare minimum,” specifically on the notion to raise the age to purchase a gun. He continued on with his statement saying that Scott’s plan does not ensure criminal background checks, or ban AR-15 style weapons.

Nelson even went as far to say that Scott instead of listening to the students or parents, he “once again choosing to listen to the NRA.”