Sentences with phrase «from gun shot»

On the evening of February 17th, Denise Krohn returned to her Florida home, after being out for two hours, to find her house was broken into and the horror of seeing her family's two beloved Goldendoodle dogs, «Kirby» and «Quigley,» lying on the floor in pools of blood from gun shot wounds.

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

Since the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, in which 49 people died, the entire media ecosystem — from late - night comedians to TV anchors to newspapers — have been focused on America's gun violence epidemic.

In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.

The weapon is thought to be a BB gun, which is shooting pellets from a vehicle.

A day after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas, gun control advocacy groups occupied the Massachusetts State House, demanding action on a bill that would prevent individuals who pose extreme risks to themselves or others from possessing a firearm.

FBI background checks, which give an indication of the state of U.S. gun sales, rose 1.1 percent in May from the prior year, according to adjusted data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

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.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

From his release, both pitches look identical to batters needing to make the micro-second decisions that go into swinging, but one shoots by them at breakneck speeds, and the other dives out of the zone while still hitting 91 mph on the gun.

Late on Tuesday, the president tweeted about the gun violence in Chicago, writing, «If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible «carnage» going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24 % from 2016), I will send in the feds!»

You just have to treat it like a gun: assume it's loaded, keep the safety on, pointed away from people, finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot.

Though the president surprised many when he suggested raising the age during a meeting following the Parkland, Fla. shooting that left 17 dead, this official plan from the administration lines up more closely with the views of the gun lobby, which spent more than $ 30 million on Trump's presidential campaign.

As Congress returns from recess this week, the big question is whether the shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed at least 17 people, and injured more than a dozen others, will push Congress to actually do something on guns.

The comments come after the Air Force admitted that it failed to submit records that may have blocked Devin Kelley, who shot and killed 26 people at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Sunday, from buying guns.

Eighteen student survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting and founders of the #NeverAgain movement have sent a letter to the business community asking for support for the March for Our Lives and their efforts to put an end to gun violence in the U.S.

Florida's newest tool to prevent mass shootings — empowering police to seize guns from people deemed to be dangerous — could pose serious legal challenges that are likely to be debated for years to come.

In 2014 came a complaint from a neighbor that Nikolas shot at his chickens with a BB gun; the chickens» owner did not press charges, so Lynda Cruz locked away the rifle, police said.

The only reason more people weren't shot: Shaw reportedly rushed the gunman while he reloaded, «grabbed the gun's barrel, pulled it away and threw it over the Waffle House counter,» suffering a gunshot wound and second - degree burns on his right hand from the weapon's barrel while disarming the shooter, later identified by police as 29 - year - old Travis Reinking.

Paddock had 12 bump stocks, Ken Dilanian reported for NBC News, among an arsenal of 23 guns at the hotel he shot people from and 19 at his house, at least some of which were AR - 15 — and AK - 47 — style weapons.

From left, Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, 14, who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida; Francine Wheeler, mother of Ben Wheeler, 6, a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting, and Lori Haas, mother of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, during a meeting with Senate Democrats about gun violence last month.

Eighteen months before Nikolas Cruz shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, staff were so worried about his fascination with guns that they banned him from practicing shooting skills with the JROTC, according to mental health records obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did - at least briefly - prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

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...

But 10 Democrats, including four from Broward County, where the shooting took place, voted for the bill as a step toward greater gun control.

The people who have risk protection orders filed against them range in age from a 14 - year - old boy who classmates claimed «wanted to kill someone to see how it feels» to a 63 - year - old man who, court records state, was «seeing spirits» and purchased two shots guns and two handguns, insisting «I can buy as many (firearms) as I want.»

The Parkland shooting has faded from the headlines in the weeks since the March for Our Lives, and Friday's rally is one of the last coordinated, nationwide gun control efforts on the calendar.

The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault - style weapons from 18 to 21.

FBI background checks for gun sales spike after mass shootings By John Maines and Yiran Zhu March 12, 2018 While mass shootings may drive some people away from owning firearms, for others they are motivation to buy.

On Saturday, survivors of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, met with high school students from Chicago to discuss gun violence and its effects on their communities, coming together to «share stories, ideologies, and pizza,» according to Parkland survivor and student activist Emma González.

Stock prices for gun manufacturers also tend to rise after mass shootings, likely because the debate over gun control heats up and rekindles fears from gun owners.

In the weeks since the February 14 shooting, the survivors from the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have seized national attention with a call for gun control.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

With Congress failing to pass more than 100 gun control bills as the number of casualties from mass shootings piles up, it's easy for gun control advocates to think nothing will be accomplished.

While the shooting has not led to major changes from the White House or the Republican - led Congress, it did — at least briefly — prompt Trump to declare that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby.

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.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February has reignited the debate about how to keep children safe from a future attack, with President Trump and gun rights activists saying the best solution is to let teachers carry guns.

The government eventually released Kim, finding he never fired a shot from his gun and didn't hurt anyone during the assassination attempt.

(CNN)-- High - profile Pastor Rick Warren tweeted Thursday that his son who shot himself late last week had bought an «unregistered gun» from «someone over the internet.»

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

Rather, it seems that only one - type of womanhood is usually the focus on most womens» ministries, just like a lot of men are rather tired of pancake breakfasts and retreats about shooting guns and refraining from masturbation.

The driver, who has been identified by law enforcement officials as Sayfullo Saipov, 29, from Uzbekistan, was shot by police after jumping out of the vehicle with what turned out to be two fake guns.

Will god stop a man in a car from running me over, or shooting me with a gun?

Shots from all angles in the dark (and not all gun owners are trained to use them) would have caused even more injury.

And I know because I'm from Maryland and own 17 guns, one of which is an AR - 15, and I would never go into a school and shoot it up starting by bombing the glass door, then proceeding to the principle's office (never liked priciples — their pddles were too hard), then going classroom by classrom making sure not to skip bathrooms or closets.

Yes, but it's allowed Rowe and Colon to both move on, and to attempt to do a greater good together to prevent another young idiot who easily acquires a gun from shooting another innocent victim.

«We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.

It stems from what I call, «shot - gun theology».

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.