Two weeks after a gunman killed 15 students and two faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the red flag law was passed.
Since then, it’s been used 35,00 times or about five times a day.
Abbe Finn, the director of the clinical mental health counseling program at FGCU spoke with us about that new law.
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