Now, seven years after that shooting and the bill’s passage, Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to repeal one of its key tenants: the red flag law. The goal of the law is to let courts consider and authorize the seizure of guns from people who pose a threat to themselves or others.

After 17 students and teachers were massacred in one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, their families begged Florida lawmakers for change. Legislators, some of whom had walked through bloody halls at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,