Sentences with phrase «conversation about gun»

We hope to ensure that the conversation about gun violence does not end in a vicious cycle of short - lived media attention.

The magazine on Thursday revealed the cover of its April 2 issue, which features Marjory Stoneman Douglas students who are leading the national conversation about gun control in the wake of the Valentine's Day shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and faculty members.

Seventeen people died in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, catalyzing a national conversation about gun violence in schools.

She's been on the cover of Time: The April 2 issue of the magazine features Marjory Stoneman Douglas students who are leading the national conversation about gun control.

The March for Our Lives, scheduled for Saturday, was organized by the students to continue the national conversation about gun safety and legislation in the U.S. and to put pressure on politicians to sign into law new measures to make large - scale acts of violence like what happened at their Parkland school less common and more difficult to replicate.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

Student voices will fill the gallery with words that reflect reactions to the national conversation about gun violence and gun culture.

There is no other way to account for the way they are changing the conversation about gun violence in this country other than to say that they have incredible intellectual skills and a work ethic that drives them to excellence.

By Barney Blakeney The Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has reinvigorated the conversation about gun violence on a national scale.

At UrbEd we address education in urban areas and what is missing from the conversation about gun control is the extent it would impact urban areas.

Last month, Stankevich's closed - door conversation about gun control with Collins in Washington, D.C. prompted criticism from McMurray who said he should not have accepted the meeting.

#Buffalo's mayor says amid nationwide conversation about gun violence, he'll head to Washington D.C. next month for @AMarch4OurLives and will also sponsor buses for any students who want to go https://t.co/2oFW3OPbof pic.twitter.com / 2scfSTKuCX

If you're ready to have a productive conversation about gun control, it won't be easy.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Whether it's leading a national conversation about gun control or fighting for girls» education and gender equality around the world, an increasing number of young women are stepping forward as change agents.

There has been a national conversation about guns after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and 17 wounded.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that the politically - charged, revolving conversation about guns in America must be taken on, and also says New York state and its SAFE ACT can prove an effective example.

This latest incident of mass violence and suicide will certainly focus attention once again on the causes of violence, and will lead to renewed conversations about gun control, our country's broken health care and mental - health systems, and the impact of media violence on the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of children.

Use these resources to help navigate conversations about gun violence, school safety, mental health and how to take action after a school shooting.

«MassLive News» featured adjunct Dyson Professor Kency Gilet in «Young, black and Republican: Why this NRA member thinks education is key in the conversation about guns in America»

There has been a national conversation about guns after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that killed 17 students and staff and wounded 17 more.

Gonzalez added that the student activists from Parkland want to have conversations about guns with President Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, R - Fla., and Gov. Rick Scott, also a Republican.

This time the conversation about guns in America is happening in large part because survivors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are demanding it, but whether changes will be made to national gun laws is still very uncertain.

A month after a shooting left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the survivors of the shooting — along with their families, supporters — and the memory of those lost, are still leading national conversations about gun control and school safety.

There has been a national conversation about guns after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that killed 17...

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«Part of that is conversation about policy, where are we going to go with gun safety, background checks, those are real conversations we need to have.»

The killings in Florida have also revived the debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry guns in schools — an idea DeVos, while careful not to outright endorse it, said in an interview last week with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt should «be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things in the future.»

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

Given this week's national conversation surrounding gun violence and legislation, we decided this conversation about...

Hard conversations are coming, perhaps legislation, around gun control, about hatred, racism, religion, about our culture's glorification of violence, our nationalism, and the divisions between us, yes, those conversations need to happen, but not just now: now is the time for grieving, now is the time for loving, for burying, for mourning with those who mourn, for gathering humanity together, and for compassion.

We need conversations about loopholes in the laws that allow the sale of weapons at gun shows and by private dealers without proper background checks.

I'm angry that I have to have conversations with my children about what to do should they find themselves locked in a classroom while a madman with a gun is walking the hallways of their school, trying to kill them and their friends.

Given the current politically charged conversations going on about guns, ownership, background checks, etc., one would expect knowledge about the issues to be growing.

After a 19 - year - old gunman opened fire at a school in Parkland, FL., leaving 17 people dead, Florida Gov. Rick Scott punted on questions about whether policymakers should take a stand on mental health and gun control, saying that «there's a time» to have such conversations.

A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school classroom» has resurfaced after a White House conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.

The policeman later secretly recorded a conversation with Lichtenstein in which he boasted about obtaining gun licenses for about 150 friends dating back to 2013.

We sent the letter to his office by email and fax and I think we need to have a common sense conversation about what we can do in this country, which I believe is the passage of common sense gun laws,» Poloncarz said.

How many more mass shootings must citizens endure before we as a country finally have a serious conversation about the scourge of gun violence that plagues our communities?

Yelling into echo chambers, like narrow - cast web sites and cable TV, about issues such as gun control, instead of engaging in conversations with those who disagree, has led each of us to spin toward extreme views

It also casually demonizes the Koreans, though it has someone speaking Mandarin to them at some point, so... Lucy plays like the cinematic manifestation of two kids having a conversation about what they'd like to see in a movie starring Scarlett Johansson: «So she gets smarter and then she knows gun - fu and then she turns into an oil blob.»

«This is often a distraction technique that the NRA employs to avoid the hard conversation that we as a country need to have about gun control,» McLean said.

«My interview with said organization who we all don't agree with was supposed to be something that continued the conversation and that conversation is about African - American gun ownership,» he said.

The tragedy left a community in mourning and sparked a conversation nationwide about gun control and mental health.

After the death of the 14 students and three adults, Israel said he believed law makers needed to enact «common sense» gun laws and said he had a conversation about it with Gov. Rick Scott.

June 1, 2015 — A school report says Nikolas is at times distracted by inappropriate conversations by classmates if the discussion is about guns, people being killed, or the armed forces.

«I am desperate to go wherever I can to have this conversation to bring about rational, sane, common - sense gun safety measures,» Guttenberg said.

Newton, MA About Blog The mission of The Liberal Gun Club is to provide a voice for gun - owning liberals and moderates in the national conversation on gun rights, gun legislation, firearms safety, and shooting sports.

Instead of having conversations and being curious about each other, couples who are on their way to a divorce, tend to simply stick to their guns and play the blame game.