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Walker's new work reflects her current research into the White Supremacist movement and gun culture in the US.

Hansen will share additional works from his recent series HAIL and will also lead a discussion about gun culture in the US...

Sound recordings and audio collages are played while concurrent choreographed movement explores themes of the school - to - prison pipeline, gun culture in America and social justice hashtags, masculinity and queer culture, and comic relief.

It'll follow a fictionalised version of the «Boston Miracle» — the 1996 initiative Operation Ceasefire, focused on controlling youth gun culture in the series and proved to be vastly successful.

This is gun culture in action.»

Senior police chief slams calls by Ukip leader Nigel Farage for handguns to be legalised, saying it would create a lethal new gun culture in the UK.

A senior police chief has slammed calls by Ukip leader Nigel Farage for handguns to be legalised, saying it would create a lethal new gun culture in the UK.

The February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 people dead has sparked another debate about gun culture in America and spurred new hopes that something will be done to prevent future incidents.

«I thought if ever we were going to do something dramatic and lasting to change Australia's gun laws to prevent the emergence of a more alien gun culture in our country, this was the time to do it.»

Cadie McNaboe, a 17 - year - old senior at Philip Barbour High School, said the gun culture in her area is something she had to take into account, which is why the students will observe a moment of silence and release balloons.

Not exact matches

At one point early in the campaign, media theorist Clay Shirky said that the anti-Trump camp — including many in traditional media — were «bringing fact - checking to a culture war,» implying that doing so was like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

Along with the possibility of raising the age for purchasing a gun, the commission will study the effects of factors such as violent video games that contribute to what DeVos called a «culture of violence» in U.S. schools.

The familiar response played out as the shooting again cracked open fissures in American politics and culture about guns, a debate that seems ever more entrenched.

We live in a gun culture.

But... We live in a feckless culture where the media treats guns like they are magic toys that create instant power.

There obviously is a gun culture att.itude problem in the U.S..

It's a part of the culture in the same way that football, grits, guns, humidity, and religion are a part of the culture.

That allowed the NCR's guns to be turned on to an even larger target: «The cover - up is the product of secrecy, privilege and a lack of accountability that are major elements of the clerical culture in which the sex abuse scandal flourished... It was made worse because officials either ignored or downplayed the claims of victims and went to great lengths in many cases to protect the abusers.»

Santorum crusading as a culture warrior in a time when people need jobs not prayers is like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

The crowds in the streets of Cairo, the marchers in Islamabad, the Palestinians who ululated and fired off their guns to celebrate the slaughter of Americans: they still grasp what blood does and why a mythic culture needs violence for its foundation.

The so - called «balanced approach» (a new code word that means the exact opposite from what it would seem) sought by the president is most likely going to be all about restricting guns and nothing but study on reigning in Hollywood for the culture of violence.

The stereotypes ingrained in Chicago culture about victims of gun violence have to stop before real change can be made.

Whether it is the point of sale issue or the social determinates of violence or access to mental health care, thinking about the gun culture we have and how it is embedded in our culture.

Manhattan Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal introduced a bill that would outlaw all high school shooting sports programs in the state — including air rifle teams and archery clubs — on the premise that they feed into a gun and shooting culture that could lead to violence.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- A New York lawmaker is taking aim at riflery and archery programs in schools, contending they promote a «gun culture.»

But they are the boogeyman of politics, because in any state with a significant gun culture, they can make or break politicians with a single mailing campaign.

In New York, crowds were larger than in some parts of the country where gun culture is considered a larger part of lifIn New York, crowds were larger than in some parts of the country where gun culture is considered a larger part of lifin some parts of the country where gun culture is considered a larger part of life.

While county Democrats contend that the shows would increase the likelihood of illegal gun sales as well as work to promote «gun culture» in Westchester, Republicans maintained that disallowing the shows infringed on residents» constitutional rights.

«They don't want to see their municipalities buildings used to promote gun culture and I will do everything in my power to stand with them and say it's right, it's not acceptable to have it here.»

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, in his typical machine - gun staccato delivery, pop culture references dished out with an arched eyebrow and declarations best suited for a James Ellroy noir, seemed more disappointed than angry at yesterday's news conference that he keeps having to police Albany.

But the chance to hone them could be in jeopardy thanks to an asinine bill from a downstate Assembly member who wants to ban air rifle and archery as school sports on the ridiculous assumption that shooting on a school team creates a «gun culture.»

Sen. Joe Griffo, R - Rome, called for a change in culture at the Capitol when asked if so - called omnibus legislative packages — a common method of operation when lawmakers are under the gun — make it difficult to consider individual provisions.

Gun culture runs deep across upstate, where many remain bitterly opposed to the SAFE Act, the controversial state gun control legislation passed after the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.

Stefanik's co-sponsorship of the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act was met with backlash even in the North Country, where guns are part of the region's culture.

She would also examine whether gun laws and culture «spill over» to affect such statistics in neighboring states.

Economist Bisakha Sen wants to study how US states» gun laws and gun cultures correlate with certain crimes and with firearms deaths in each state — and whether differing laws and cultures in neighboring states «spill over» to influence a state's statistics.

«This work also could evaluate how regional differences — such as social gun culture, gun ownership and other factors — contribute to the significant regional variation in firearm legislation.»

In the culture wars we all know the tribal stereotypes of what liberals think of conservatives: Conservatives are a bunch of Hummer - driving, meat - eating, gun - toting, hard - drinking, Bible - thumping, black - and - white - thinking, fist - pounding, shoe - stomping, morally hypocritical blowhards.

After playing an American Indian in the youth Western Young Guns (1988), he found himself fascinated with Indian culture and became a Cherokee blood brother.

The ownership of guns in America for hunters and enthusiasts has been a long standing tradition, and gun culture continues to be part of the fabric of American life.

Lavelle's meetings with many of these creeps evokes questions about the wealth of the Church after the Global Financial Crisis, violence being acceptable in other cultures, gun laws and assisted suicides.

In Yardie, a young Jamaican (Aml Ameen) watches his peace - loving brother gunned down, and grows up torn between embracing his brother's ideals, or immersing himself in gang and drug culture to seek revengIn Yardie, a young Jamaican (Aml Ameen) watches his peace - loving brother gunned down, and grows up torn between embracing his brother's ideals, or immersing himself in gang and drug culture to seek revengin gang and drug culture to seek revenge.

A powerful acknowledgement of existence when the value of a human life seems to have been forgotten in the «gun happy» sewer of American culture.

In a country that finally freed the African American people 150 years after we brutally shackled them, now 150 years later we're still living in a culture when anyone with the wrong color skin can be forcefully stopped and frisked on the street — or worse — followed, hounded, hunted like strays and gunned down point blanIn a country that finally freed the African American people 150 years after we brutally shackled them, now 150 years later we're still living in a culture when anyone with the wrong color skin can be forcefully stopped and frisked on the street — or worse — followed, hounded, hunted like strays and gunned down point blanin a culture when anyone with the wrong color skin can be forcefully stopped and frisked on the street — or worse — followed, hounded, hunted like strays and gunned down point blank.

And in its identification of several possible «suspects,» all with access to firearms, the film makes a powerful (if sidelong) case for stricter gun - control: In a culture where anyone can get their hands on a weapon, everyone could be the shootein its identification of several possible «suspects,» all with access to firearms, the film makes a powerful (if sidelong) case for stricter gun - control: In a culture where anyone can get their hands on a weapon, everyone could be the shooteIn a culture where anyone can get their hands on a weapon, everyone could be the shooter.

McDonagh would probably be the first to admit that his all - guns - blazing parable of midwestern revenge and arguable redemption wasn't deeply embedded in the culture and vernacular of small - town Missouri.

A culture of violence and guns can not be fixed in a moment, writes a 5th grade teacher.

In a culture that can't get enough of Donald Trump and his «Apprentice,» we have been terribly gun - shy about telling charters those two important words: «You're fired!»

Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law.

On the other side you've got Jak, an underground rebel in a futuristic background, armed with a morph gun, which sounds all too much like the product of an FPS dominant western gaming culture.