Fort Lauderdale Sen. Chris Smith said Wednesday that because of widely different cultures around guns from place to place in Florida, efforts to make schools safer should largely be a local issue.
Smith, who is the Senate Democratic leader, told a group of newspaper editors in Tallahassee that the state should provide a common funding source for school safety improvements, but shouldn’t make statewide mandates. He noted that what may be best at a high school in crowded and urban Broward County might not be the best thing for an elementary school in rural Dixie County in north Florida.
