ORLANDO, Fla. — With Thursday marking one year since 17 people lost their lives in a mass shooting at a Parkland high school, Spectrum News brought together people on both sides of the gun debate to talk about how the mass shooting is changing gun laws.

A state commission that examined safety in schools after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, recommended arming teachers with guns.  The president of the state’s education commission says that’s a bad idea.

“Don’t arm teachers, don’t arm teachers because one, we don’t want that,” said Fedrick Ingram, President of the Florida Educators Association. “It’s a nonsensical idea to think we’re going to turn our attention from the board to some assailant that’s coming to do harm to our school.”

“From them accidentally shooting someone and killing them, like a bystander or someone, the fact law enforcement doesn’t know if they’re the shooter, and it could accidentally cost them their life,” said Robert Schentrup, a brother of a Parkland shooting victim.

Carey Baker, a gun shop owner, says safety can be increased while also respecting people’s second amendment rights.

“I believe we can identify folks and disarm them and still protect the second amendment rights and the gun owners’ rights,” Baker said. “So there are definitely things that we can do that gun owners support that will provide for more safety.”

After the shooting at Parkland, the state passed gun control laws which raised the age to purchase a gun, banned bump stocks, and allowed police — with the approval of a judge — to take guns away from someone who’s deemed dangerous.

An attorney in the town hall believes that law has a major flaw.

“There’s no minimum age, so one of the abuses I’ve seen is a particular law enforcement agency went so far as to file an RPO against an 8-year-old child… ” said Kendra Parris, and Orlando attorney. “And children can’t buy firearms anyway under Florida law, you’re not really achieving any public safety by doing that, but you are traumatizing child, which is what I thought we were trying to avoid.”

Spectrum News will be following the upcoming legislative session in Tallahassee, where lawmakers could potentially change existing gun laws and even propose and pass new ones.