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Local leaders and parents are sounding off on gun legislation.  They want power locally to decide gun laws, and want to put an end to some of the proposals moving through the Capitol.

School teachers could be armed, warning shots would be legal, evacuees could carry concealed weapons, and zero tolerance would be relaxed with four gun bills likely to become law this year.

“I think it prevents violence from occurring in our school campuses, ensuring that we have someone to respond to an armed intruder coming into our schools is very important,” said Rep. Greg Steube, a sponsor of the arming teachers proposal.

The bills brought Lisa Wheeler-Brown from St. Petersburg to the Capitol in memory of her son Cabretti. He was brutally gunned down.

“If we had some common sense laws or ways to prevent the felons or people who shouldn’t have weapons, yes I do, I think his life maybe would have been spared,” said Wheeler-Brown.

Wheeler-Brown joined a coalition between Moms Demand Action and Mayors Against Illegal Guns rallying at the Capitol. Arming teachers was a chief concern of the group.

“Much as you might want to believe that these young people, these children, do not know that you’re carrying a weapon, I promise you some of them will know,” said Mom Chryl Anderson.

Steube says the group can’t have it both ways.

“We shouldn’t have any other guns in our schools but we want more school resource officers, well all school resource officers carry guns. So that comment really doesn’t make any sense,” he said.

2^nd amendment supporters stood in silent protest of the Moms and Mayors. The group’s plea for gun sense are likely to fall on deaf ears with the four high profile gun bills on the fast track in both chambers.