Sentences with phrase «by other school shootings»

My apology goes to everyone affected by other school shootings in our country's history.

President Donald Trump hosted a listening session Wednesday with people affected by last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as people affected by other school shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump hosted a listening session Wednesday with people affected by last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as well as people affected by other school shootings, including the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Our march, Protest Against Gun Violence was inspired by the depth of tragedy in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the countless other shootings, but also the looming fear that the next shooting is inevitable, whether at our school, or any other across the country.

Now, after the Florida high school shooting, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and other top Democrats think that Trump could help muscle through a measure long opposed by the NRA and many GOP lawmakers.

Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by religious extremists for going to school and defying her Imams — Is this how religion teaches us how to respect for each other?

Third - grade children in Missouri are selling raffle tickets for an AR - 15 rifle, the weapon used by the killer last week in the Florida school shooting and in a number of other mass shootings, to raise funds for their baseball team.

Newtown's police commissioners want Connecticut law changed so officers and others who responded to last month's deadly school shooting are covered by workers» compensation.

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The company also is facing the possibility of revenue losses from restrictions placed on gun sales by retailers following a shooting that killed 17 people and wounded 15 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.

State Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn) said the Florida school shooting is just the latest reason the state should pass his bills requiring every school be manned by an armed police officer and all schools to include emergency response drills for all situations including active shooters or other lethal attacks.

Home made is a film made by a junior high school student, but yet this trailer shows bugattis, and a few other exotic cars, helicopter shots etc. which definitely put it over the fence beyond «home made»

In one nocturnal interior shot, Legs is lit by a blue light while the other girls drift around her like moths; in another indelible interlocking configuration, the five heroines gather around a sink in the school bathroom; and Maddy's dark bedroom twinkles with as many mysterious pinpoints of light as a planetarium.

Much more, of course, was involved in the shooting than the racial composition of the schools attended by Wilson and Brown, but it is hard to shake the feeling that a lack of contact and understanding — outside of confrontations — between white police officers and black citizens lies at the heart of this and too many other tragic encounters.

As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths of a 10 - year - old on the eve of her first day of 4th grade, a 16 - year - old boy shot in a city bus on his way home from school, and an 18 - year - old honor student killed outside his high school, among others.

Growing up in Rialto I witnessed drive - by shootings, car - jackings, robberies, and I was constantly «navigating» gangs and other challenges in my neighborhood and schools.

With the number of school shootings, bullying incidents and other acts of violence, what do educators have to lose by trying these techniques?

Commonplace nationwide and far from controversial anywhere else — charter schools have been embraced by 41 other states and even by President Obama — the concept has been shot down at the polls three times in Washington due in large part to well - financed opposition campaigns from WEA.

It's too early to predict just how significant a role the convergence of students enraged by a plague of school shootings and teachers enraged by that and a lot of other things will play in the election cycle that culminates in November's midterm congressional contests.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

This book explores answers to these questions, by reporting on a literature review of «highly effective organizations» in other sectors, and through case studies of 12 schools where teachers call the shots.

Logs and reports obtained by The Palm Beach Post portray a disturbed and potentially violent young man who eventually took a semi-automatic AR - 15 rifle to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and fired dozens of shots, killing 14 students and three adults and injuring many others.

It was prompted by a 2007 shooting at a district high school in which a student killed himself and wounded two others.

It is recognized as afflicting people who survive traumatic events — wars and conflicts, natural disasters, terrorist attacks and school shootings, but can also be experienced by others such as first...

Renegade Ops is an old - school vehicular shooting game that sees you and up to three other team - mates wreck havoc against the evil forces of a terrorist by the name of Inferno.

Unicef and other organizations focused on children and education are marking today as Malala Day, with the goal of focusing attention on the recovery and the mission of Malala Yousafzai, the 15 - year - old Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban last month for pressing for the right for girls to go to school.

The confusion is outlined in documents and audio recordings released Thursday by the Broward Sheriff's Office, three weeks after Nikolas Cruz opened fire in the high school, killing 17 and wounding 17 others in one of America's worst school shootings.

He slipped out of the school after the shooting by blending in with other students who were trying to escape, according to two law enforcement sources and an eyewitness.

Here are the stories of the heroic police officers, paramedics and dispatchers whose lives were impacted by the Valentine's Day mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and more than a dozen others injured.

With that bias in mind, Stafford and other African - American Democrats feared that a minority student who reaches for a phone during a mass shooting event could be mistaken for the shooter by school staff with firearms.

«Inmate is on lockdown by himself... unable to interact with others,» according to one «behavior observation report» dated Feb. 18, four days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

According to a news release, the Humane Society's animal - assisted therapy teams are at the high school Wednesday, and have been also visiting other local schools and emergency dispatch centers to provide comfort and relief to those impacted by the shooting.

The Legislature is also considering numerous general school security measures that were prompted by the shooting, including paying for more campus police officers and mental health services, raising the age of buying a rifle to 21 and allowing districts to arm teachers and other staff.

As evidenced by the 407 to 10 vote, the legislation doesn't tackle anything controversial dealing with guns that has been proposed since the Feb. 14 shooting in which a former student killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at the Parkland school.

Two law enforcement officials and a witness said Cruz was able to leave the school after the shooting by blending in with other students who were trying to escape.

In the days after the shooting, DeVos supported a proposal by President Trump and others to arm teachers as a way to deter school shootings.

About 120 people attended the session, prompted by Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and staffers and injured 17 others.

The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grSchool has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grschool safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grschool grounds.

In the CNN interview and in a letter to the governor, Israel insisted that only one deputy, Scot Peterson, was at the school while bullets flew, but radio transmissions later released by his own agency show that at least three other deputies were at the school during the shooting, with two of them — Michael Kratz and Brian Goolsby — reporting hearing the shots fired on the radio.