Sentences with phrase «gun violence at»

Edna Chavez, a 17 - year - old senior from South Los Angeles, made an impassioned speech about gun violence at the student led March for Our Lives in March 2018.

Columbine shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris famously enjoyed violent video games, but data suggests they were the exception when it comes to those who commit gun violence at schools.

Many students across the nation were protesting campus gun violence at this time.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Broward and Miami - Dade counties, hosted the gathering aimed at attacking «gun violence at every level.»

Led by the mourning but mobilized students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, young people will protest gun violence at March for Our Lives demonstrations in Washington, D.C., Parkland and across the nation on Saturday.

Spearheaded by Stoneman Douglas student activists, the town halls aim to keep the issue of gun violence at the forefront after hundreds of thousands of people marched last month in Washington and other cities, demanding stricter regulations on weapons.

Edna Chavez, a 17 - year - old senior from South Los Angeles, made an impassioned speech about gun violence at the student led March for Our Lives in March 2018.

Liz Schlemmer reports on lawmakers who heard student opinions on gun violence at a «reverse» town hall meeting at UNC - Chapel Hill.

Students rally against gun violence at Palm Beach Lakes HIgh School Wednesday afternoon, February 21, 2018.

Students at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, joined others from across the country last month in walking out of classrooms to protest gun violence at American schools during the National School Walkout.

There was a lot of discussion about how the CMAs (Country Music Awards) would tackle gun violence at their show in the wake of the Las Vegas and Texas shootings.

With gun violence at a staggering high and the world more polarized than ever, perhaps Chiron in Aries will help heal the divide.

The research team also found the rate of gun violence at schools has changed over time.

In the last 25 years, there have been two elevated periods of gun violence at U.S. schools, the researchers found; 2007 - 2013 was largely due to events at postsecondary schools while 1992 - 1994 more often involved events at K - 12 schools.

A rigorous Northwestern University study of a quarter - century of data has found that economic insecurity is related to the rate of gun violence at K - 12 and postsecondary schools in the United States.

Also, the definition of gun violence at school varied among creators of these datasets.

When it becomes more difficult for people coming out of school to find jobs, the rate of gun violence at schools increases.

«Our work helps us understand why the frequency of gun violence at schools changes, not necessarily why gun violence at schools in the United States exists at all,» said Amaral, professor of chemical and biological engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering.

He and undergraduate and graduate student co-authors then individually sourced and read reports for each event to make sure it was actually an incident of gun violence at a school.

UPPER MANHATTAN — A week after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., left 27 dead, uptown campaigners are showing their support for an end to gun violence at nightly vigils.

In addition to the patrols, Cuomo announced close to $ 500,000 in new funding for the GIVE and SNUG programs, which work to combat and prevent gun violence at the community level.

We were saddened to learn of the passing of a young man and the injury of two others as a result of gun violence at our store on North Broadway in Chicago.

This misses the entire problem — the issue that keeps America's gun violence at higher levels than any other developed nation.

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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.

This opinion piece from The New York Times editorial board — part of a larger series on gun violence that also looks at the horrific statistics on the murder of women in the U.S. — focuses on the «boyfriend loophole,» something that may be familiar to regular Broadsheet readers.

Three years after she was shot at a Tucson supermarket, the former Arizona congresswoman has become a major force in the effort to end the plague of gun violence.

Santorum made his original remarks over the weekend while roughly two million people at hundreds of «March for Our Lives» events across the US rallied against gun violence in America.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

In the weeks after the deadly Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Trump has, at turns, been sympathetic to student survivors who are demanding action to address gun violence, and he has sought to appease gun - rights proponents who are impervious to calls for reform.

She's now 21 and a student at Columbia, continuing her efforts to end gun violence; her smart work was the inspiration for the nationwide «Wear Orange» campaign.

We're tired of living under the omnipresent threat of gun violence anywhere anytime, at our children's schools, at the mall, just driving around town, enough is enough!

The horrifying mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School offered yet another tragic reminder of America's gun problem: The US has much more firearm violence than its developed peers.

This Wednesday, March 14th, students are walking out of class for 17 minutes at 10 am across time zones to demand Congress act NOW to end gun violence.

This past Friday, students across the country walked out of their classroom to protest gun violence and while students were participating, walking out at Flour Bluff High School three seniors there decided to take another position.

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.

But to the huge crowds that greeted them in Washington on Saturday at a march to protest gun violence, the students were fearless celebrities.

One of our small goals at the beginning stages of Project Orange Tree was to host food drives because neighborhoods most affected by the city's gun violence were also food deserts.

Trump pressed lawmakers to send him «one terrific bill» combining several proposals aimed at reducing gun violence, although that could complicate the legislative outlook for such a contentious issue in an election year.

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.

The annual scorecard measures what lawyers at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence consider «the relative strength or weakness» of gun laws in each state in 2017.

During a televised gun meeting with lawmakers in late February, Trump wagged his finger at a Republican senator and scolded him for being «afraid of the NRA,» declaring that he would stand up to the group and finally get results in quelling gun violence.

WASHINGTON — Standing before vast crowds from Washington to Los Angeles to Parkland, Fla., the speakers — nearly all of them students, some still in elementary school — delivered an anguished and defiant message: They are «done hiding» from gun violence, and will «stop at nothing» to get politicians to finally prevent it.

The US's gun problem is so dire that it arguably needs solutions that go way further than what we typically see in mainstream proposals — at least, if the US ever hopes to get down to European levels of gun violence.

On March 14, students at Lewis Middle School in Allied Gardens joined hundreds of thousands of other students from across the country in a walkout to protest gun violence in schools following the death of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida one month earlier.

Supporters of gun rights look at America's high levels of gun violence and argue that guns are not the problem.

People were really maxing out credit cards trying to really help these children and these brands are willing to give so much to them, and I think that is because — at the center of it — we're talking about gun violence.

The recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has renewed the debate about high national rates of gun violence and what to do about it.

They walked, ran and hitched rides 12 miles to Parkland, to pay their respects to the students and faculty that were killed at Stoneman Douglas — and to protest gun violence.

The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, has brought renewed attention to gun violence in schools.