After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018 , Smith renewed his advocacy to enact a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines . On February 20 , less than a week after the massacre that killed 14 high school students and three teachers , Florida Representative Kionne McGhee moved to withdraw Smith 's bill that would ban assault weapons from its committees and immediately consider it on the floor . The motion failed , 36-71 , along party lines . Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School watched the motion fail from the House chamber 's viewing gallery . Later that day , Smith pointedly questioned Representative Ross Spano on the floor regarding Spano 's resolution declaring pornography a " health risk . " In an attempt to question Spano 's priorities , Smith asked Spano if pornography had ever physically handicapped a person , or if it had caused PTSD in first responders . Smith asked , " Do you believe that identifying porn as a public health risk is more important than identifying gun violence as a public health risk , especially after the events of this week and the events of June 12 , 2016 , when 49 people were murdered by gun violence at Pulse ? " Spano is the chair of the Criminal Justice Subcommittee in the Florida House of Representatives , the first committee to which Smith 's assault weapons ban was assigned . Spano had the power to schedule the bill for a hearing in his committee during the 2017 and 2018 lawmaking sessions , but declined to do so
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Carlos Guillermo Smith