02/20/2018

Schools Chief Doesn't Want Lawmakers to Ignore Carnage in Florida

Blood and bullet holes remain in school devastated by terrorism

For the past five days, Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie has become a grim tour guide to the deadliest high school shooting in American history.

Between funerals, press conferences and around-the-clock meetings in a makeshift "war room" set up in the principal's office at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Runcie has accompanied state lawmakers and members of Congress as they visit the school. With police leading the way, they have retraced the gunman's path through the freshman building: past bullet casings, shattered windows, walls pockmarked by gunshots and pools of blood.

It's a sickening tour of the carnage that claimed 17 lives last Wednesday. And it's one that Runcie has taken many times in the days since. He can't look away. These are his students - "our babies" as he calls them - and his teachers. And he wants to make sure no one else can look away either.

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