Sentences with phrase «with school shootings»

The schools who have dealt with school shootings have, after the tragedy, adopted a focus on creating a caring school environment and involving parents in that process.

Such was the case with the school shootings in Springfield, Ore., last May, an event that put into stark relief some of the basic needs of our children.

That stuck with me, because you tend to have an image of medieval times with happy peasants coexisting in close - knit communities, whereas we think of the present as filled with school shootings and mugging and terrorist attacks.

Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein addressed mental health issues associated with school shootings.

School resource officers are law enforcement officers who've been trained for a school environment and how to deal with school shootings.

«I came all the way from Chicago to help change the violence that's going on with school shootings,» said 16 - year - old Kaiseona Lockhart.

Amid the shifting debate, the president convened yet another meeting on school safety, this time with school shooting survivors and family members of victims, and the White House considered releasing the president's list of legislative priorities.

Now aren't you wondering why this isn't a lead story in the national media along with the school shooting?

In the shorts category, a Special Recognition for Acting award went to Tarra Riggs for her performance as an educator dealing with a school shooting in «Dekalb Elementary.»

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

MetLife is the latest business to end its relationship with the NRA following a school shooting in Florida.

The shooting happened Wednesday afternoon when a man armed with what authorities say was an AR - 15 semiautomatic rifle attacked Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.

Sam Zeif, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida who survived last week's mass shooting, delivered an impassioned plea for stricter gun control during a White House listening session with President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Some of the photos showed Nancy Lanza's NRA basic pistol training course certificate, as well as various knives, firearms, and several articles on school shootings with which Adam Lanza was reportedly obsessed.

Several students and parents affected by school shootings including last week's massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, attended a listening session with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

It's the first time an executive at the nation's second - largest bank has publicly laid out how it will deal with gun - industry clients following Feb. 14 shootings at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

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Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old suspect armed with an assault rifle, was charged with 17 counts of murder in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

On 14 December 2012, a troubled 20 - year - old in Newtown, Connecticut, killed his mother and then drove to the local elementary school, where he shot 20 first - graders and six educators to death with a military - style rifle before killing himself.

The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with gun makers after a wave of public outcry sparked by the Florida school shooting last week.

The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with gun makers following public outcry sparked by the school shooting in Florida.

Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, also sent a tweet with the hashtag #NeverAgain, which arose after the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

On Tuesday, officials say that 17 - year - old Austin Rollins entered Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County, Maryland, with a handgun and shot two students.

But this Presidents Day weekend, the commander - in - chief fired off an unprecedented 14 tweets about the Russia investigation — declaring his innocence, suggesting the FBI could have prevented last week's Florida school shooting if it hadn't been working on the investigation, blaming Democrats and former President Barack Obama for Russia's interference in the election, and accusing the former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia.

(CNN) Students around the United States are walking out of class to demand tougher gun laws in response to last week's deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, but some schools are threatening them with harsh punishments.

The shooting, which resulted in 17 fatalities, was not an isolated incident — nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety found that there were 160 incidences of gunfire on school campuses from 2013 - 15, with almost 50 percent taking place on college and university campuses.

His brother Nikolas Cruz is charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at the Parkland high school.

In 2016, Cruz posted a photo of himself on Instagram with guns saying he wanted to shoot up the school.

During a meeting with the nation's governors on gun safety, President Trump discussed reopening mental - health institutions and said that he would have intervened in the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, even if he was unarmed.

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During a meeting with the nation's governors on gun safety, President Trump said that he would have intervened in the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, even if he was unarmed.

Last week, even before Parkland, a car backfired outside my school, interrupting class with a sharp pop - pop - pop; adrenaline shot through my veins as I grabbed a friend in panic.

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On Feb. 14, Nikolas Cruz, 19, walked into the freshman building at Douglas — his former school — and shot and killed 17 students and educators with an AR - 15 semiautomatic rifle.

From left, Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, 14, who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida; Francine Wheeler, mother of Ben Wheeler, 6, a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting, and Lori Haas, mother of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, during a meeting with Senate Democrats about gun violence last month.

Wade — whose return to Miami at February's trade deadline came just before the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and who worked to pay tribute to the fallen students there and engage with the survivors after that tragedy — asked Shaw what he hoped would come of his experience at the Waffle House and its aftermath.

Kyle's activism comes from an honest place: He wants to balance stopping another school shooting with maintaining the Second Amendment.

After the shooting on Wednesday, Mr. Gard said that several students told him that Mr. Cruz was taken with a girl at Stoneman Douglas High School «to the point of stalking her.»

In an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Menescal said the blood on her white pants jolted her out of denial — she couldn't believe she was experiencing a school shooting.

He preened with guns and knives on social media, bragged about shooting rats with his BB gun and got kicked out of school — in part because he had brought bullets in his backpack, according to one classmate.

It was Sept. 28, 2016, and Cruz — who since has admitted to perpetrating one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, Wednesday's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High — took to his arms with a knife.

The law was passed March 9, nearly a month after Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland with an AR - 15 rifle.

Under the rallying cry #NeverAgain, dozens of students and staff who survived the Florida school shooting departed earlier Tuesday for the Capitol, where they hope to speak with lawmakers Wednesday about school safety and gun control.

During the March 26 airing of The Story with Martha MacCallum, Parkland school shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv said that we need government control rather than gun control.

To understand what's different about the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sean Rameswaram speaks with Vox reporter German Lopez, Georgetown psychiatry professor Liza Gold, and Elizabeth Love, a Utah teenager who's a bit of a badass.

Parkland shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv is countering the April 20 anti-gun walkout with a pro-gun event featuring speakers who will address ways to make schools safe without infringing on Second Amendment rights.

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP)-- Student survivors of the deadly Florida school shooting who hope to become the face of a revived gun control movement are on a potential collision course with President Donald Trump.

«The two of us have organized this protest in solidarity with all of those who were affected by the tragic school shooting in Florida last week,» Eleanor Nuechterlein and Whitney Bowen, the teen organizers, said in a statement.

A survivor of the Parkland school shooting has shared a senior prom night to remember with a Nebraska girl.