Sentences with phrase «after mass shootings by»

FBI background checks for gun sales spike after mass shootings By John Maines and Yiran Zhu March 12, 2018 While mass shootings may drive some people away from owning firearms, for others they are motivation to buy.

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That has been a sharp contrast to other recent mass shootings where public debate quickly moved on after the perfunctory «thoughts and prayers» offered by many Republican politicians and outrage expressed by Democrats.

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

Two days after a mass shooting in an Orlando gay nightclub raised concerns about home - grown terrorism, a two - year - old boy visiting Disney's Grand Floridian Resort with his parents was snatched by an alligator while playing in the lagoon.

Australia's success in tightly restricting gun ownership after its worst mass shooting, and the concomitant reduction in gun crimes and mass shootings, is likely to be held up by proponents of gun control as an example for what the U.S. should do after its latest mass shooting on Sunday.

Despite the day's developments, there was deep skepticism in Washington that anything would change because of the long history of inaction by state and federal politicians after similar mass shootings.

He acknowledged that the House was drafting legislation similar to that proposed by the Senate that will place new limits on access to semiautomatic assault rifles, like AR - 15s, something the Florida Legislature refused to do after mass shootings killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub in 2016 and 5 at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport last year.

After Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando, New York Stock Exchange stock prices for Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co. — two major gun manufacturers — both had risen by more than 10 percent combined, according to Vox.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

It's by author Louis Klarevas, for his 2016 book «Rampage Nation,» which shows the before ban stats on mass shootings, during, and after the ban was lifted.

domestic violence — The California law was prompted, in part, by the 2014 mass shooting in Santa Barbara by Elliott Rodger, in which he killed six people and injured 14 others after he went on a shooting and stabbing spree that he said in an online video was...

Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

Powered by what its developers touted as a «Ghoul Engine,» the game let you watch brains ooze from a dead man's skull, blood spurt from dismembered bodies, or bodies transform into bloody masses of unrecognizable pulp after being shot again and again.

Students are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a mass shooting on Feb. 14, 2018.

«Shine,» the piano ballad written after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting by students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña, was released on iTunes on Friday and the proceeds will go toward helping kids heal from the trauma through the arts...

We're used to those kinds of gestures amid moment of silences after mass shootings in America by now.

A generation of students shaped by gun violence and mass shootings marched out of more than 3,100 schools in a national walkout Wednesday, exactly one month after the deadly Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting in Parkland.

Deutch said Congress could have enacted measures to reduce violence by enacting some gun controls after previous mass shootings.

Since the rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, media coverage has been dominated by the attack's survivors, who responded with a push of furious activism unseen after previous mass shootings.

The move is one of a number of changes announced Wednesday by Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runice after the Parkland school experienced a number security issues in recent days — more than month after a mass shooting left 17 people dead.

After the meeting, Tinneny and three others from Pennridge had prime rally spots, where they could see the speakers as they waited in the wings with families from Newtown, Conn., and other communities affected by mass shootings.

When all 30 major league teams support Marjory Stoneman Douglas High after last week's mass shooting by wearing MSD baseball caps before their first spring training game — with the option of also wearing them during the game — it will be a little different for the Marlins.

When all 30 teams support Marjory Stoneman Douglas High after last week's mass shooting by wearing MSD baseball caps before their first spring training game — with the option of also wearing them during the game — it will be a little different for the Marlins.

After last week's mass gun murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 were killed and 14 injured by one teenager bearing a military - grade assault rifle, Trump and his supporters have avoided discussing much - needed gun legislation in a country where 33,000 people are shot and killed every year, suggesting instead that new hospitals be opened to care for the mentally ill.