GAINESVILLE — Democrats in Florida’s Legislature have filed more than a dozen gun control bills — which even the party’s lawmakers acknowledge are likely to go nowhere — less than two months after the state legalized open carry.

The routine submitting of gun-control legislation with nothing to show for it prompted a leading gun violence prevention advocate to reprimand Democrats in Tallahassee. A number of the bills are introduced year after year and quietly meet the same fate.

“Unfortunately in the state of Florida, the majority of those on the Democratic side have just become weak,” said Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting. “They’ve forgotten how to fight; they’ve accepted the idea that they can’t accomplish much, and I thin

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