Sentences with phrase «several mass shootings»

Several mass shootings and fatalities hit the headlines this year.

Although gun sales rose consistently during the Obama years, most of these sales were to existing owners, reacting to his appeals for more stringent laws after several mass shootings during his time in the White House.

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

His last media briefing about the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was Oct. 13, following several days of shifting timelines and accounts.

Several parents accused the district of failing to learn any lessons from the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 13 people dead.

Each of the recent mass shootings in the U.S. has followed a similar pattern — after the killings, there's a nationwide pang of sadness, a hot flash of anger; but then, after several days of thoughts and prayer and Facebook debates, the conversation dies down.

Chief Greg Cassell of the Clark County Fire Department said on Thursday that several factors complicated the department's response to the mass shooting, but he praised the emergency responders as heroic.

An assistant football coach, a popular wrestling coach and athletic director, a cross-country coach and several athletes were among the victims of Wednesday's mass shooting at a Florida high school.

AR - 15 assault - style rifles are under increased scrutiny because of their use in several recent mass shootings, including the February massacre at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead.

Last year's show marked the first in nearly two decades after several were cancelled due to mass shootings in Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

The bill comes after several other state and local governments have passed contentious gun - control measures in the wake of the February mass shooting at a Florida high school.

Authorities have revised the timeline for last week's mass shooting in Las Vegas, raising new questions about the hotel's response to an attack that killed 58 people and injured several hundred more.

Blobs of gas roughly the mass of Jupiter (several illustrated) could form near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way and shoot into intergalactic space.

Research indicates that putting police in schools does not lead to lower rates of violence, and several recent mass shootings occurred in places where armed police officers were on duty.

High school student David Hogg, who survived a mass shooting in February 2018 to become an advocate for more stringent gun control laws, has been the subject of several conspiracy theories and smear campaigns as a result.

Several hundred motorcycle riders took part in a charity ride to benefit a playground to be built in honor of Meadow Pollack, 18, killed Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High during a mass shooting in Parkland that left 17 dead.

Nikolas Cruz, a former Stoneman Douglas student, roamed the hallways of the 1200 building on campus February 14 for several minutes, targeting victims huddled in classrooms on the first and second floors, killing 17 people in one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, was booked into the Broward County main jail Thursday morning and charged in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left at least 17 people dead and several more injured.

Many students participated in the growing Never Again movement, which advocates for putting an end to mass shootings through increased gun control, led by several MSD students, including seniors Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg and junior Cameron Kasky.

«The people of South Florida have been through a lot, obviously, over the last several weeks,» National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt III said Friday, referring to the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, when 17 were killed and 17 wounded.

The National Rifle Association and the gun industry are facing a growing backlash in the aftermath of the Feb. 14 mass shooting that left 17 people dead and several more injured.

A sheriffà cents â «¬ â «cents s office captain told deputies to form a perimeter instead of confronting the gunman at the high school where several people were killed in a mass shooting, according to documents obtained by the Miami Herald.