Sentences with phrase «after the massacre in»

Gun - control proponents have unsuccessfully tried to restart a fierce debate that began after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

Two months after a massacre in Parkland made security the top focus in Broward County schools, many parents and students say the school district is doing too little to ensure safety.

In the weeks after the massacre in Parkland, Democratic governors in the Northeast have created a gun task force, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and other Republican lawmakers have called for raising the minimum age for purchasing rifles to 21.

While last night's meeting in Saint Joseph University Church occurred only days after the massacre in Las Vegas, the panel discussion focus was the effect of violence on kids in city schools.

Artist Statement After the massacre in Las Vegas, I saw this quote going around social media and it stuck out to me.

- Two years after the massacre in Newtown, CT, the town's constituents are still struggling to cope.

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While the the AR - 15 used in the massacre was not purchased at Dick's, the company decided to pull similar rifles after the tragedy.

Dick's removed assault - style weapons from those stores in 2012 after the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre and shifted that part of its business to Field & Stream.)

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

Lagunitas Brewing Company, in 2005, had its brewer's license suspended after police made marijuana arrests at the brewery in an event that has come to be known as the St. Patrick's Day Massacre.

Obamaalso showed a «get - tough» strategy in his determination to pursue gun control after last month's massacre of schoolchildren by a gunman in Newtown, Connecticut.

Congress seemed poised to act after the 2012 massacre of 20 six - and seven - year - olds and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, but the effort failed.

«The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,» NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012.

(The 2004 school massacre in Beslan, Russia, in which more than 300 died, took place six months after the Madrid attacks, which killed 191.

At least three Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in time to hear gunshots but did not immediately enter the building where the shooting took place, according to reports they filed after the massacre.

After staying largely mum in the last few days about the massacre and the escalating debate about weapons, Mr. Trump said Monday that he was supportive of a bipartisan effort to strengthen federal background checks for gun purchases.

Two months after losing their daughter Carmen Schentrup in the Stoneman Douglas massacre, April and Phil Schentrup talk about grief, moving forward and what they've done with the $ 5,628.84 she had in her savings account.

Six days after an even deadlier massacre in Las Vegas, in October, each newspaper printed a single shooting - related story on page one, for a combined total of three.

The average amount of time spent discussing gun control on the three major cable networks two weeks after the shooting is higher post-Parkland than it was after any other major recent shooting, including the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

In 2013, just months after the Sandy Hook massacre, a version of the legislation was proposed by Toomey and Manchin.

Given that prior position, A.T.F. officials had indicated privately in the months after the Las Vegas massacre that any ban of bump stocks would require new legislation.

The sweeping and bipartisan law is named after Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a former student, Nikolas Cruz, was charged with launching the massacre on Feb. 14.

House Republicans on Tuesday decisively blocked a move by Democrats to debate a ban on assault weapons in Florida, six days after a massacre that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

That was in stark contrast to the thousands in Parkland who left one month after the massacre, and the millions who attended April 24th's March for Our Lives in Washington D.C.

It's also higher, notably, than it was in early 2013, just after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn..

In the weeks after former student Nikolas Cruz's Valentine's Day massacre, Runcie was hailed for his calm leadership and outspoken embrace of gun reform and the #NeverAgain movement.

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?&raquIn a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?&raquin 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

While Tutsis were mainly the victims of the genocide, their rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Force, committed its own crimes during its campaign to overthrow the Hutu government in 1994, while after 1994 the Tutsi government's army, according to reports of the U.N. and human - rights groups, massacred thousands of Hutu civilians in exile in the DRC.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

The President also confirmed that the state of emergency put in place after the Paris massacres last November, where 130 people were murdered, would continue in place for another three months.

How Christian was George Washington, who ordered the extermination of the Six Nations in upstate NY after the Cherry Valley and Susquehanna Valley massacres, akin to the Nazi «Final Solution»?

Coming one week after the videotaped beheadings of 21 Christians in Libya, the incident raises concern of whether a prisoner swap or another propaganda - driven massacre is in the making.

Furthermore, after the massacre concluded, the plague left the city, which was seen as proof to the citizens that the Jews were the ones guilty for bringing the plague upon them in the first place.

The fact that this movie arrives a year, almost to the day, after the massacre carried out by Dylann Roof against nine African - American churchgoers in Charleston, SC only adds to the intense emotions that Free State of Jones evokes.

PAKISTAN Nearly 70 suspects in the massacre of Christians in Gojra have a year of freedom on bail after the Anti-Terrorism Court suspended the trial because a key witness fled the country.

Thus, in 1968, after the Mexican army had fired on a student demonstration and killed a large number of people in the so - called Tlatelolco massacre, Méndez read a statement from the pulpit of his cathedral condemning the government for this act.

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In addition, one month after the Thompson - White murders, five people had been massacred in a similar house invasion on North Roman StreeIn addition, one month after the Thompson - White murders, five people had been massacred in a similar house invasion on North Roman Streein a similar house invasion on North Roman Street.

We the Fans were overconfident about this game after having a few good games, we had to keep in mind that this was the team (SPUDS) that massacred the CHELSKIS not too long ago scoring 5 goals against arguably the best team in the league, in all fairness we came out fine, the SPUDS could have scored at least 2 more if it was not for OSPINA.

On August 28, 2011, two weeks after his 18th birthday, the newly signed Ox, who came over from Southampton for # 12 million, was trotted out for his Arsenal debut in the 62nd minute of an 8 - 2 massacre against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Officials across the country — including New York — reported a wave of threats, some copycat, others not, in recent days that kept both students and administrators on edge after the Parkland massacre.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 7026 into law, the first gun control legislation enacted in the state after the Parkland school massacre on Feb. 14.

Thus in India, it was not (as far as I know) the case that one religion out of Islam and Hinduism was favoured and one became suppressed colonially, yet directly after colonialism ended, mass migrations and massacres occurred between these great peoples.

New York passed the NY SAFE Act, which banned assault weapons such as the AR - 15, in 2013 after the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut.

«At the end of the 2016 legislative session and after last week's massacre in Orlando, it is important that voters know where their legislators stand on gun safety.

After that, the Russians came in and promised to get rid of Assad's chemical weapons (which they never did), and it became the one sided massacre that it is today.

But after the ban lapsed in 2004, the numbers shot up again — an astonishing 183 percent increase in massacres and a 239 percent increase in massacre deaths.

One particular round of layoffs affected so many staffers it became known as the «Valentine's Day Massacre» after Quinn laid off 61 staffers in 2008.

The Pennsylvania - based company announced Wednesday that it would stop selling assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines — as well as any firearms to people under 21 — after the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

Ms. Bacchiochi voted against the 2013 gun control bill, passed after the Sandy Hook school massacre, and makes it clear she is the only statewide candidate to have done so — a mark against her in our book.