Andrew Pollack (18 February 1966-) was an American conservative political activist from Coral Springs, Florida. He became a school safety and gun rights activist following the death of his daughter in a 2018 mass shooting at her high school in Parkland, Florida.
Biography[]
Andrew Pollack was born in Queens, New York City, New York in 1966 to a Russian-Jewish family, and he grew up in Oceanside and moved to Coral Springs, Florida in 1999. He operated a scrap metal purchasing business in New York and became a youth lacrosse coach and real estate agent in Florida, and the death of his 18-year-old daughter Meadow in the 14 February 2018 Parkland shooting led to him becoming a school safety activist. A Republican, he served on Ron DeSantis' gubernatorial transition team and later spoke at the Republican National Convention on 24 August 2020, endorsing Donald Trump and criticizing the Democrats. He claimed that "gun control didn't fail on (his) daughter; people did"; he then went on to say that "Far-left Democrats in our school district made this shooting possible" for their "new approach to discipline and safety" - "restorative justice". He also accused Joe Biden of supporting gun control policies which he believed would make school shootings more common, and he argued that the safety of America's children depended on whether Trump was re-elected.