Sentences with phrase «control after the school shooting»

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Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

MIAMI — Gun control legislation is moving at an unusually fast pace in the Florida Capitol following a deadly high school shooting, which has pushed state lawmakers and the governor to act after years of loosening restrictions on firearms.

The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage, at a high school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.

NBC 15 reported that high school students in Wisconsin sparked a gun control debate at their state Capitol after multiple school shooting threats were made to local high schools following the Parkland attack.

It is unclear if Republican Governor John Kasich would support the legislation, but after the Parkland school shooting and subsequent student protests, he deleted his pro-gun record on his website and replaced it with a demand for «common sense gun control,» according to Governing.

A Democratic - controlled Congress back in 2010 didn't have the political capital to pass gun laws (some Democrats have since said that was a mistake), and Congress failed to expand background checks in 2013 after the 2012 Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Back for a return engagement, President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to...

US Representative Ted Deutch (D) called Marjory Stoneman Douglas students who are en route to the State Capitol in Tallahassee to advocate for gun control after the shooting that took place in their school last week.

After the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, at least six public opinion polls suggested that Americans were becoming more receptive to gun control.

Kevin Wozniak, a sociologist at UMass Boston, reviewed polls after the Newtown school shooting in 2012 and found that the event coincided with a temporary spike in support for gun control, followed by a leveling off and return to pre-mass shooting opinion by the end of 2013.

Back for a return engagement, President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to the fold.

Less than a week after the tragic shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, some of the surviving students — who are barely old enough to vote — have become some of the loudest and most prominent voices for gun control reform.

After 20 schoolchildren and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, the national debate over gun control has resumed with a fervor.

The SAFE Act, a package of gun control provisions was passed in the Legislature about a month after the elementary school shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 students.

Democrat Shelley Mayer, a state Assembly lawmaker, after the shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people, spoke Sunday at a rally with left - leaning groups demanding action on gun control.

One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking up the gun control debate.

Gov. Rick Scott and top state lawmakers proposed the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades, in defiance of the NRA, though some of their ideas fell short of what student advocates pleaded for after one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.

The debate over gun control has moved forward in the Senate after a shooting at a Florida high school killed 17 people.

Cuomo urged the president to go with his gut and support new gun control measures after last month's Parkland, Florida high school shooting that killed 17 people.

The W.F.P. challenge is the most tangible manifestation of the frustration expressed by progressives toward Cuomo, and their displeasure that he has governed as a fiscal moderate, choosing to burnish his liberal credentials with social issues, like a push to legalize same - sex marriage and a new gun control law passed after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Just after the Sandy Hook school shooting, a lot of states passed tougher gun control measures.

In the months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, several states adopted tougher gun control measures.

The rallies were started by students calling for more gun control after the Parkland Florida high school shooting.

NEW YORK — The evening after the recent Parkland school shootings, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took to the airwaves to demand stronger national gun control laws.

ALBANY — The Republican - led state Senate on Monday approved bills intended to improve school safety in the wake of the latest school shooting massacre, but only after voting down a number of Democratic gun - control proposals and trading insults.

Several GOP Senators DID back the democratic governor in approving same sex marriage in 2011, and a gun control package in early 2013, shortly after the Newtown Connecticut school shooting.

It was left in limbo after Assembly Democrats shot down a Senate Republican attempt to tie the renewal to a set of measures that would benefit charter schools; Republicans in turn refused to pass a standalone measure on mayoral control.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Only days after calling for an overhaul of gun control in New York following the Connecticut school shooting, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a tough proposal on gun control is ready to become law.

Connecticut's stricter gun control law, signed by Malloy after the school shooting in Newtown, is expected to feature prominently in the debate.

Cuomo, who successfully advocated for the passage of gun control legislation after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, called for «real action» following the most recent school shoSchool shooting in 2012, called for «real action» following the most recent school shoschool shooting.

The bill comes after several other state and local governments have passed contentious gun - control measures in the wake of the February mass shooting at a Florida high school.

Deutch rose to national prominence as a gun control proponent after February's mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School.

A former congresswoman who survived a 2011 shooting led the call for stricter gun control laws on Wednesday after a 19 - year - old suspect opened fire at a Florida high school and killed at least 17.

The gun control debate returned to the Capitol after a shooting at a high school in Florida last month that killed 17 people.

The bills and proposals for school safety come as Democratic lawmakers have called for traditional gun control measures after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Sschool safety come as Democratic lawmakers have called for traditional gun control measures after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High SchoolSchool.

The politics and emotion surrounding gun control has increased in the days after the shooting as students from Majory Stoneman Douglas High School have made publicly pleas for stronger laws.

Just days after the massacre that left 17 of their classmates and teachers dead, student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have become prominent gun control activists.

Santorum's comments came a day after protesters assembled at March for Our Lives events in Washington and across the country to demand gun control legislation in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Sharpe said the gun control legislation passed after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting does not make people safe.

Cuomo in 2013 pushed through the passage a package of gun control laws known as the SAFE Act, approved in the weeks after an elementary school shooting in Connecticut.

ALBANY — Nearly a month after the Parkland, Fla., school mass shooting, Gov. Cuomo is set to kick off a gun - control campaign touting his work on the issue and targeting seven New York congressional Republicans.

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP)-- Pressure is growing for tougher gun - control laws after a mass shooting at a Florida high school, with thousands of angry protesters at state rallies demanding immediate action from lawmakers, and more demonstrations planned across the country in the weeks ahead.

The rally is the latest of several calling on the state to repeal the SAFE Act, which was the first gun control act passed after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn..

Cuomo seemed to have shifted left in 2013, when he included a high - volume plea for gun control after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and proposed a 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda that stirred two years of controversy — and electoral sniping last year — because of proposed changes to the abortion statute.

In his first interview as a candidate, Katko took aim at the New York SAFE Act, a strict gun - control law that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed one month after 20 children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn..

After the Sandy Hook school shooting, Cuomo raced to push through a far - reaching gun control law.

The Siena College poll comes after last month's mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and at a time when Gov. Cuomo and Assembly and Senate Democrats have pushed a variety of new gun control measures.

«Frozen» star wants opponents of gun control to «face early retirement» after revealing his connection to one of the victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida

With a moment of silence, 17 balloons and calls for gun control, students at one Maryland high school explain why they joined the nationwide walkout one month after the Parkland, Fla., shooting.