TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Nathan Scott -- the 30-year-old Florida State University employee who was one of three people shot when a gunman entered the Strozier Library last Thursday -- is recovering comfortably in his Tallahassee home.
Scott's shift started at midnight -- 30 minutes before Florida State alumnus Myron May walked in with a .360 handgun and began firing.
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"He raised the gun and fired the shot, and we could kind of hear, after, the ‘click, click, click' going on. There was definitely intent to fire more than one shot," said Scott.
Gunfire had struck Scott and two FSU students in the minutes before campus and Tallahassee police arrived and killed May.
Scott showed the X-ray of where he was shot in the leg and said he's been thinking about how lucky he was that things didn't end up worse.
Now a campus group is using the shooting as proof that gun laws need to change. FSU's Students for Concealed Carry fired off a letter to lawmakers asking them to reconsider allowing permitted students to carry at school. The group's president, Erek Cullbreath, says it could have prevented last week's tragedy.
"That could have never happened. It could have been way worse, it was a packed library, there could have been tens of people killed in the minutes it took for police to respond," said Cullbreath.
Scott is a member of the group. His views haven't changed even after being a victim of gun violence.
"I mean, yeah, if I had a gun I probably would have been at least been able to protect myself. I don't know if I would have taken it to work," said Scott.
The law almost changed in 2011 before FSU's new president, John Thrasher, stepped in. Thrasher was a state senator at the time and played a big role in keeping the law in place. Thrasher's friend, Robert Cowie, had just lost his daughter, Ashley, in a shooting at a Florida State fraternity house. In the months after, the senator said he couldn't support the bill.
If the law were to be changed, only students 21 and older would be granted a concealed carry permit unless they had been honorably discharged from the military.