Sentences with phrase «after mass shootings killed»

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.

Take Australia: In 1996, the country enacted strict laws and a gun buyback program after a mass shooting killed 35 people in Tasmania.

Not exact matches

After one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — 20 children and seven adults killed, not including the gunman — polls show that a slight majority of Americans favor restrictions on guns.

State lawmakers passed no restrictions on guns after the fatal shooting of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in 2016 and the mass shooting that killed five at the Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport in 2017.

The law's passage came as a surprise to many in Florida, where lawmakers had failed to enact legislation after the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, which left 49 dead, and the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport that killed five people in 2017.

Equality Florida, the largest LGBT rights group in the state, posted the GoFundMe fundraiser shortly after a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens more at a gay club in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history Sunday morning.

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.

In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American history.

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 406 others were injured after a gunman opened fire on an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

The social media posts came in the days after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The issue took on added importance Friday after the FBI said it now considers the mass shooting that killed 14 people this week in San Bernardino, Calif., an act of terrorism with possible links to the Islamic State.

Bump stocks, which can increase the rate of fire on a weapon, came under intense scrutiny after investigators said they believed Stephen Paddock used them to modify weapons used in a mass shooting in Las Vegas last October that killed roughly 60 people and injured hundreds more.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy waged a filibuster in an attempt to force a vote on gun control legislation three days after 49 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Law enforcement officials are searching for multiple gunmen in a mass shooting at a service center for people with disabilities in San Bernardino, CA, which comes just five days after a gunman killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO..

Lawmakers have homed in on bump stocks after a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas last month, where nearly 60 people were killed and more than 500 others were injured.

Lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott approved a ban on the devices after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people.

Immediately after a 19 - year - old shot and killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at a Florida high school on Valentine's Day, people leaped to explain what had caused the latest mass slaughter.

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.

February 28, 2018 • Classes resumed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, two weeks after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting.

A day after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Fla., students grieve at a vigil for the 17 students and staff members who were killed.

Calls for tighter gun controls surged in other parts of the country after the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where a former student killed 17 people, but they barely registered in gun - loving Texas, where more than 1 million residents are licensed to carry handguns.

After Stephen Paddock killed 58 people in Las Vegas and wounded more than 400, another unfortunate mass shooting in...

The movement comes after 17 people were killed in last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's ice hockey team won the Florida championship game this weekend, just 11 days after the mass shooting that killed 17 at the school.

Hundreds of students from a number of Maryland and DC schools walked out of their classrooms and made a trip to the U.S. Capitol and the White House to call for gun legislation, one week after 17 were killed in the latest mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, two weeks after a mass shooting that killed 14 students and three teachers.

After the killings in Parkland, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said he was willing to deal with the «gun part» of the debate over how to stop mass shootings.

A growing memorial sits outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the mass shooting at the Parkland school that killed 17 people.

To stop mass shootings, we have to go after the assault weapons that make it so easy to kill so many people so fast.

The arrest comes days after another 19 - year - old man, Nikolas Cruz, was arrested in connection with a mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

After 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at their school, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are launching a social media campaign to raise awareness and pressure Congress to act on gun control.

PARKLAND, Fla. - Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday as classes resumed two weeks after a mass shooting there killed 17 people.

Just 11 days after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at the school, the Eagles toppled Tampa Jesuit, 7 - 4, to capture the Tier 1 Statewide Amateur Hockey of Florida state title.

The team won the Florida state title on Feb. 25, less than two weeks after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at the school on Feb. 14.

More than a thousand people packed the Coral Springs Center for the Arts to discuss how to make children safer after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14.

Eleven days after 17 classmates and faculty members were killed in a mass shooting at their school, hockey players representing Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School won a state championship.

The House will vote next week on a school safety bill roughly one month after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 people.

A bill in Alaska was introduced last year after Esteban Santiago, then an Anchorage resident, was arrested on federal charges he killed five people and injured six others in the Jan. 6, 2017, mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport.

Volunteers hang banners around the perimeter of Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Fla., to welcome back students who will be returning to school Wednesday two weeks after the mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff.

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.