Realistically, Gov. Ron DeSantis or Sen. Rick Scott can’t speak out on every gun violence death in Florida. The toll is too great: More than 3,000 lives lost each year, an average of more than eight people a day.
But when a case draws national attention, it might behoove either of those men to express some sorrow. Some recognition of the shattered potential that each death represents. A promise, however hollow, to find solutions to the gun violence that claims so many lives.
What Floridians would never expect — what they could barely imagine — was the spectacle of their governor and junior senator tumbling over each other to exploit a high-profile mass shooting in pursuit of a political vendetta. Until last month, when they did just that.
