Sentences with phrase «deadly mass shootings»

This has been true for some time now, but after five months of particularly deadly mass shootings, it seems at least some activists are saying enough is enough.

In light of the deadly mass shootings in Florida last week, Caraway said he was seeking to put citizens first, and found hosting the convention at this time to be inappropriate.

Just like many Americans, celebrities woke up Monday morning to news of our country's deadliest mass shooting in modern US history and expressed their pain, condolences, and shock at the horrific actions.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

Millions of people draped in the rainbow hues of LGBT pride turned out for the annual parade through New York streets, two weeks after a deadly mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub stirred fear and solidarity among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

Another challenge is to strike the appropriate tone at a time when the initial shock over the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has quickly given way to a vicious political brawl in Washington and on the campaign trail.

Whatever spurred the event, it is now the deadliest mass shooting in US history — and Paddock's victims join a growing number of people in the US that were intentionally killed at the end of a gun.

A gunman pledging allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

An analysis of the five deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history reveals that shares of those three companies traded down from the day of the incident to one week later, but not by as much as they are reacting now to the high school shooting in Florida.

Trump began his weekend trip to Florida by stopping by the nearby Broward County community torn by the nation's latest deadly mass shooting.

Shooter Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 at the Pulse nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Vox reports that this is now «the deadliest mass shooting in American history,» surpassing the death toll of 32 at Virgina Tech and 27 at Sandy Hook.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

It was the 377th time Americans have witnessed a mass shooting in 2017 alone, and comes just over a month after the horror in Las Vegas, which was the deadliest mass shooting in contemporary U.S. history.

Among the six deadliest mass shootings in the last six years, the only one not carried out with an AR - 15 style rifle was the Orlando nightclub attack two years ago that left 49 dead.

But he's also 16 years old and a survivor of a deadly mass shooting, one that he spent in hiding for two hours, trying to calm down crying classmates until a SWAT team freed them from a classroom closet.

The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history may have left 49 dead, 58 injured and thousands heartbroken, but many more will come together to ensure they are not forgotten.

The proposals have come in response to the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.

Perhaps the clearest is what Australian Prime Minister John Howard did in the wake of that country's deadliest mass shooting, the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre.

In the wake of this weekend's deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) proposed a ban on the «bump stock,» a device that makes semiautomatic weapons function like automatic ones, which are generally banned in the United States.

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Equality Florida, the largest LGBT rights group in the state, posted the GoFundMe fundraiser shortly after a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens more at a gay club in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history Sunday morning.

The sheriff indicated that Mr. Paddock may have blended in intentionally, hiding the urge to violence that drove him to one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern United States history.

In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American history.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

Police body - camera videos show Las Vegas officers bust into a hotel room where a gunman unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

On the heels of the deadliest mass shooting in American history, a new report released by the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein reveals disturbing data about how easy it is for individuals on the terror watch list to purchase firearms.

It's the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The rest of the country should take up legislation similar to the SAFE Act gun control measure approved in 2013 in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement said Thursday following of the deadliest mass shootings at a school since Sandy Hook in Connecticut.

President Donald Trump said he would have rushed in to aid students and teachers during the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.

The governor's office issued a statement Saturday saying that in nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, the shooter had a record of committing or threatening violence against women, or harassing or disparaging women.

The event happened at the American Civic Association, nine years after the deadly mass shooting that claimed 13 lives.

It was the deadliest high school shooting in US history, and the eighth deadliest mass shooting overall.

Katko expects there to be plenty of conversation this week in Washington centering on what happened in an Orlando gay nightclub, when 29 - year old Omar Mateen carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

«In nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in United States history, including Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs, the shooter had an existing record of committing violence against women, threatening violence against women, or harassing or disparaging women,» his office said in a statement.

Drawing a stark contrast between herself and Trump and renewing her calls for stricter gun control in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton declared that «weapons of war have no place on our streets.»

Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history, before being shot dead by police.

«This is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States and it reminds us once more that weapons of war have no place on our streets,» Clinton said.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Donald Trump told the nation's governors on Monday that he would have rushed in to aid students and teachers during the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.

Cuomo said the change is important because domestic violence and threats against women are linked to nine out of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, including the shootings this year in Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs, Texas.

After a nearly 15 - hour filibuster, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday morning that lawmakers would hold a vote on expanding gun control legislation after the nation's deadliest mass shooting.

As investigators continue to figure out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the tragedy of Las Vegas is renewing a long - running gun control debate.

Pence praised the heroic response by police and the resolve of the American people at a prayer service Saturday in Las Vegas before organizers released 58 white doves in memory of each victim killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Three weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, efforts to ban the gadgets known as bump stocks — which the Las Vegas killer might have used to turn rifles into machines guns — have come to a screeching halt.

Why isn't this incident — the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history — being considered a terrorist attack?

President Trump called for the nation «to find unity and peace,» in the aftermath of one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, declaring: «Our unity can not be shattered by evil, our bonds can not be broken by violence.»

There is a new element to the nation's gun control debate, coming out of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Cruz killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on February 14 in one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.

That attack in February killed 17 and led to nationwide protests, and the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history occurred in Las Vegas last year.