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 [[File:Pulse fence memorials.jpg|thumb|Memorials to the victims of the [[Orlando nightclub shooting]] left on the fence of the Pulse nightclub in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] in 2016]]
-A handful of high-profile mass shootings have occurred in Florida in the 21st century. In June 2016, a gunman [[Orlando nightclub shooting|killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando]]. It is the deadliest incident in the [[history of violence against LGBT people in the United States]], as well as the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001, and it was the deadliest [[mass shootings in the United States|mass shooting]] by a single gunman in U.S. history until the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]]. In February 2018, 17 people were killed in a [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting|school shooting]] at [[Stoneman Douglas High School]] in [[Parkland, Florida]], leading to new gun control regulations at both the state and federal level.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Andone |first1=Dakin |title=Parkland students turned from victims to activists and inspired a wave of new gun safety laws |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/us/parkland-change-gun-control-legislation/index.html |website=CNN |date=February 11, 2019 |access-date=February 11, 2021 |archive-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209163535/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/us/parkland-change-gun-control-legislation/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+A handful of high-profile mass shootings have occurred in Florida in the 21st century. In June 2016, a gunman [[Orlando nightclub shooting|killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando]]. It is the deadliest incident in the [[history of violence against LGBT people in the United States]], as well as the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001, and it was the deadliest [[mass shootings in the United States|mass shooting]] by a single gunman in U.S. history until the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]]. In February 2018, 17 people were killed in a [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting|school shooting]] at [[Stoneman Douglas High School]] in [[Parkland, Florida]], leading to new gun control regulations at both the state and federal level.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Andone |first1=Dakin |title=Parkland students turned from victims to activists and inspired a wave of new gun safety laws |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/us/parkland-change-gun-control-legislation/index.html |website=CNN |date=February 11, 2019 |access-date=February 11, 2021 |archive-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209163535/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/us/parkland-change-gun-control-legislation/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 On June 24, 2021, a condominium in [[Surfside, Florida]], near [[Miami]] [[Surfside condominium building collapse|collapsed]], killing at least 97 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=<!--Not stated-->|date=July 16, 2021|title=97 dead as recovery effort at collapsed Florida condo nears end|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/16/97-dead-as-recovery-effort-at-collapsed-florida-condo-nears-end|access-date=July 17, 2021|website=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]|language=en-US|archive-date=July 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717012610/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/16/97-dead-as-recovery-effort-at-collapsed-florida-condo-nears-end|url-status=live}}</ref> The Surfside collapse is tied with the [[Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.)|Knickerbocker Theatre collapse]] as the [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Structural collapses|third-deadliest]] [[List of structural failures and collapses|structural engineering failure]] in United States history, behind the [[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse]] and the [[Pemberton Mill|collapse of the Pemberton Mill]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spocchia |first1=Gina |title=Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: 40 years ago today one of America's deadliest structural collapses took place |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hyatt-regency-walkway-collapse-kansas-b1885876.html |work=The Independent |date=July 17, 2021 |access-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725205115/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hyatt-regency-walkway-collapse-kansas-b1885876.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Surfside collapse is reminiscent of other tragic construction failures in the United States |url=https://www.thebharatexpressnews.com/the-surfside-collapse-is-reminiscent-of-other-tragic-construction-failures-in-the-united-states/ |publisher=The Baharat Express News |access-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-date=September 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917084705/https://www.thebharatexpressnews.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>