Marco Rubio and an N.R.A. Official Were Jeered and Lectured on Gun Control<br />“The influence of these groups comes not from money, the influence comes from the millions of people who support the agenda.”<br />Mr. Deutch at one point engaged in a brief debate with Mr. Rubio, saying<br />that a gun allowing someone to fire off 150 rounds in six to seven minutes “should be banned.”<br />Later, Chris Grady, a student at the high school, thanked Mr. Rubio for appearing at the forum, unlike Mr. Trump and Mr. Scott<br />“My daughter, running down the hallway, was shot in the back with an assault weapon, the<br />weapon of choice,” Mr. Guttenberg said during the forum as Mr. Rubio stood stone-faced.<br />Mr. Rubio, Republican of Florida, also drew the ire of the crowd for refusing to support a ban on assault weapons and for saying<br />that he intended to continue accepting money from the N. R.A.<br />and other groups that support his pro-gun agenda.<br />“People buy into my agenda, and I do support the Second Amendment,” Mr. Rubio said,<br />repeatedly refusing to say he would stop accepting money from the group.<br />Ms. Loesch and Mr. Rubio appeared during the two-hour forum, broadcast on CNN from a site near Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Fla., knowing full well<br />that they would be assailed by the gathering of people directly affected by the mass shooting last week.
