Sentences with phrase «began after the massacre»

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

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After the Newtown massacre of Dec. 14, 2012, the state's Democratic governor and legislative leaders began work on a major gun safety bill.

Two months after the shooting, known as the Port Arthur massacre, Australia began implementing a comprehensive set of gun regulations, called the National Firearms

The Wall Street Journal notes that the current protests in Libya began outside Benghazi's courthouse on Feb. 15, after security forces arrested a human - rights lawyer and two relatives of people who were among the estimated 1,200 prisoners killed in a 1996 uprising that has become known as the «Abu Salim massacre.»

So on March 15 — one month and one day after the Stoneman Douglas shooting — Schwartz and a team of volunteer conservators will begin preserving objects left at makeshift memorials for the 17 students and faculty killed in the massacre.

Planning for the rally (and 800 - plus others worldwide) began the week after a Feb. 14 school massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman killed 14 students and three educators.

Not even 24 hours after the massacre, threats began pouring into schools across the country, prompting schools to not only ensure parents their children were safe, but also to examine what measures they had in place to prevent a tragedy in their district.