Sentences with phrase «change to gun laws»

Together, they're the first step in what she sees a real grassroots movement for concrete changes to gun laws.
Fred Guttenberg, the father of Stoneman Douglas High School victim Jaime Guttenberg, has emerged as one of the strongest voices for changes to gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting.
Brindisi, who holds an «A» rating from the National Rifle Association as a state legislator, which indicates support for gun rights, has yet to propose any significant change to gun laws in the wake of the Parkland Shooting.
Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Friday that he had signed the school safety bill that makes significant changes to gun laws, school security, and funding for mental health treatment.
-- Students call for reforms in Tallahassee: Thousands of students rallied Wednesday outside the Florida Capitol to demand changes to gun laws in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre where 17 people were killed and 16 wounded.
The prediction: Politicians who right now express sympathy and call for safer schools will follow a familiar pattern after school shootings by letting what happened in the South Florida community fade from the headlines without making meaningful changes to gun laws.
The students are calling for changes to gun laws after Nikolas Cruz fatally shot 17 people on Valentine's Day with an AR - 15 rifle.
On Wednesday he criticized federal officials for considering changes to gun laws that are «incremental at best.»
He also cites two areas that were arguably not under his purview — the failure to pass a bill allowing federal financial aid eligibility for undocumented immigrant college students and any kind of substantive change to gun laws — as among the areas he would've liked to see a different outcome.
Oliver vowed to work with student activists to bring about sensible changes to gun laws.
Last week: Our South Florida delegation to Congress must do everything possible in Washington to support the Stoneman Douglas community and bring much - needed change to our gun laws.
So Floridians, at best, will get only modest changes to gun laws.
The initiative aims to bring change to gun laws by writing letters to 535 members of Congress in response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Thousands of chanting students, including survivors of the Florida school shooting, rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday, demanding changes to gun laws and threatening to remove Republicans who refuse to address new gun - control measures.
We march because Congress should reflect the will of the people, and the people want meaningful change to our gun laws.
Momentum is rising to make changes to gun laws after Nikolas Cruz, a former student at Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, carried out the mass shooting on Feb. 14.
The groups of students across Miami - Dade and Broward counties are calling for action from lawmakers to make changes to gun laws, especially when it comes to the purchase of assault rifles.
It brought renewed urgency to the national debate over school safety, with young survivors tearfully calling for changes to gun laws, students walking out of classrooms to protest gun violence, and President Donald Trump urging schools to arm their teachers.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School and other schools across the country walked out of class to honor the victims of the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, and to push for changes to gun laws.
After meeting with Republicans and Democrats alike, the students gathered at the Capitol to share their personal stories and pleas for change to the gun laws that allowed former student Nikolas Cruz to buy the AK - 15 he used in last week's shooting.
A week after a shooter slaughtered 17 people in a Florida high school, thousands of protesters, including many angry teenagers, swarmed into the state Capitol on Wednesday, calling for changes to gun laws, a ban on assault - type weapons and improved care for the mentally ill.
At noon Wednesday, Feb. 21, students in the Chicago suburbs of Aurora, Oswego, St. Charles and Batavia walked out of class, seeking to remember those killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14 and to advocate for changes to gun laws.
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