Students, instructors, alumni and parents called
for changes in gun laws, and more safety requirements at schools, including bulletproof windows and doors.
About 20 students have launched «Never Again MSD,» a group that will push
for changes in gun laws.
While we've been marveling at how Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have used social media to push
for change in our gun laws, a little - noticed subculture called «Cruzers» or the «Niko Community» has grown up alongside them.
They pleaded
for changes in gun law as the nation grapples with how to prevent mass shootings in schools.
Not exact matches
Sheriff Scott Israel demanded
gun law changes at a vigil
for the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shooting held
in Parkland Thursday night.
For more than a week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have held the country's attention as they join with peers across the country to demand a
change in America's
gun laws.
Together, they're the first step
in what she sees a real grassroots movement
for concrete
changes to
gun laws.
Late
in the day Friday, Sen. James Seward of Oneonta issued a press release taking credit
for compelling the «first ever
changes to governor's
gun control
law.»
Rep. John Katko, a longtime
gun rights supporter, said he will consider supporting
changes in federal
gun laws that would raise the minimum age to buy a firearm and require universal background checks
for all
gun sales.
«The federal government must take action, but
for too long forces
in Washington backed by the
gun industry lobby have offered empty words instead of life - saving
laws and policy
changes.
Heastie says he knows that
for now, the measures are not going to advance
in the Senate, but he says he hopes that the tide is
changing for gun control
laws.
And we were right when we showed this nation true leadership and passed marriage equality; and we were right when we stood up
for the women of this state and we passed the Women's Equality Act; and we were right when we passed the most aggressive
law stopping sexual violence on college campuses
in the nation; and we were right when we stopped fingerprinting
for food; and we were right when we led the way on climate
change; and we were right when we stopped discrimination based on sexual identity; and we were right when we passed commonsense
gun safety
laws.
Heastie said he knows that
for now, the measures are not going to advance
in the Senate, but he said he hopes that the tide is
changing for gun control
laws.
Democrats
in the Assembly did not want to roll back any provisions of the
gun laws, even though Republicans were asking
for some
changes.
The governor is using the tragedy... as a justification
for sweeping
changes in gun laws including regulating every single
gun millions of New Yorkers now own.
A growing bipartisan number of state governors have joined calls
for a reconsideration of
gun laws and school safety measures after the mass shooting
in Parkland, Florida, a sign that resulting legislative
changes could extend far beyond Florida
in the coming months.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Katko, a longtime
gun rights supporter, said Friday he will consider supporting
changes in federal
gun laws that would raise the minimum age to buy a firearm and require universal background checks
for all
gun sales.
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A year after the shooting, the flurry of passionate calls
for «national conversations» and
changes to state and federal
laws related to
guns, school security, and mental health that were spurred by the tragedy has yet to produce a sea
change in policy.
Dahlia Lithwick, who writes about the courts and the
law for Slate, is optimistic about the students» success
in changing the
gun laws in this country.
Grieving
in public by pushing
for changes in policy and
laws, the Stoneman Douglas survivors ripped a collective scab off a host of issues — school violence,
gun control and safety, arming teachers, mental health, the power of protest, race, privilege, technology and internet trolling — and thrust them into the local, state, and national spotlights.
Cat lovers are being urged to back a major campaign
for a
change in the
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Last week: Last weekend, my 18 - year - old daughter and I joined hundreds of thousands of Americans
in calling
for change to our nation's
gun laws at the March
for Our Lives demonstration
in Washington.
Senators began the three - panel hearing by expressing the need
for change in current
gun laws.
-- 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.
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.
The 17 - year - old organized a bus trip to the Florida state Capitol
in Tallahassee
in an effort to push
for gun law changes.
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.
Some of the survivors of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
in Parkland, Fla., have emerged as voices
for change to U.S.
gun control
laws.