Sentences with phrase «gun violence first»

The latest gun violence first erupted at 3:45 a.m. Monday, when an 18 - year - old male was fatally shot in the chest, and a 72 - year - old woman was struck in the arm, on Flatbush Ave. near Empire Blvd., police said.

The students, many of whom have experienced gun violence first hand, related their stories to lawmakers and asked them to find solutions to reduce the flow of illegal guns into their neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

«There are many programs that work to ensure, especially in communities that are heavily affected by gun violence, -LSB-...] that students are able to respond and administer whatever first aid they can, assuming the person is still alive,» Hogg said on Sunday.

The walkout is just the first in a series of youth - led demonstrations of activism around gun violence.

«Teaching people, starting with our children, that there is a God to whom they're accountable is not the only thing we need to do to end gun violence, but it's the first thing we need to do,» he said.

Before these hypocrites start spouting off against guns, perhaps they should first address all the violence and murder in their holy book done in their god's name.

Why don't these ministers deal with gun violence, drugs, HIV / AIDS, and runaway father in the black community first?

Washington (CNN)- On the first Sunday after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the Rev. Gary Hall of the Washington National Cathedral called on religious communities to take a stance against gun violence.

And for the first time I felt hope that something might actually get done to end gun violence.

The state Legislature passed and Cuomo approved this March its first piece of gun control legislation since the SAFE Act was approved, a measure that tightens restrictions on gun ownership for those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.

First Daughter Ivanka Trump says she doesn't know if her father's proposal of arming teachers with firearms would protect students from gun violence.

De Blasio's wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, said federal lawmakers must be put under pressure when it comes to fighting gun violence, treating mental illness, and guaranteeing the rights of all.

«Governors Cuomo, Malloy, Murphy, and Raimondo deserve great credit for this innovative, first - in - the - nation regional gun violence prevention effort.

Not only will this groundbreaking partnership take new steps to prevent illegal guns from crossing state lines, but by forming the nation's first Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium, we will be able to better inform policymakers nationwide on how to keep their communities safe.»

Keith's leadership has ensured that New York leads the nation.We were the first state to dedicate a month to gun violence awareness, we've raised the minimum wage, and are leading the way with the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate when police officers are involved in the deaths of unarmed civilians.

«While gun violence continues to rip our communities apart, typical politicians do nothing,» the Miami - Dade Democrat says in his first television advertisement.

First he insinuated that people concerned about the seemingly inevitable murders are hypocrites who don't care about gun violence except when J'Ouvert rolls around.

At noon, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Captain Mark Kelly, NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray, NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh and others call on New Yorkers to vote to stop gun violence as Giffords» «Vocal Majority» bus tour stops in NYC, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Clinton is making gun violence a central theme of her campaign, becoming the first leading presidential candidate to directly confront the National Rifle Association without the cover of a hunting license.

I believe there is an opportunity to address gun violence, but in its first attempt, our state leaders missed that opportunity.

AD WARS — Pat Ryan's congressional campaign has released their first ad of the cycle and centers around gun violence.

Two Capital Region students are among five teens statewide who have won Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first Carey Gabay Scholarship, a program for disadvantaged students that honors the former Cuomo aide who was a victim of gun violence a year ago during Brooklyn's annual West Indian Day celebration.

The Legislature approved its first gun control measure since 2013, a bill that is meant to close loopholes and take guns away from those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.

Clegg added he feels the NRA controls Republicans in Congress and while those politicians are starting to talk about gun violence for the first time in memory, «I suspect they're not going to get anything done.»

At a news conference with Senate Democrats and families of victims of gun violence June 16, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said others in the Senate are «for the first time... actually saying we ought to do something» to prevent shooting deaths.

Thompson, the first African - American to serve as Brooklyn District Attorney, was a progressive leader who cracked down on gun violence and stopped the prosecution of low - level marijuana arrests.

Cuomo honored the families of Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka, the two West Webster, N.Y., firefighters who were killed in an ambush Christmas Eve, and Rochester's chief of police called on the state to lead the nation in protecting its citizens and first responders from gun violence.

Increasingly, such potent opioids are claiming the lives of young adults aged 20 - 34 and, for the first time, have made opioid - related deaths the leading cause of accidental deaths, surpassing motor vehicle accidents and gun violence, 2015 National Center for Health Statistics data show.

Last week, California's state legislature bucked that trend, voting to establish the nation's first publicly funded center for studying gun violence.

«Many physicians feel a professional obligation to discuss gun - violence prevention, but they don't because they are not sure what to say or what they're legally allowed to say,» said the study's first author, Jane M. Garbutt, MD, a professor of medicine and of pediatrics.

Sandy Hook parents Mark and Jackie Barden, who lost their youngest son, Daniel, in the shooting (and are also featured in Kim A. Snyder's more elegiac Sundance premiere, «Newtown»), are the first among many family members of gun - violence victims profiled by Soechtig and returning «Fed Up» narrator - host - exec producer Katie Couric.

It's worth noting that I first pitched the idea of a published discussion on gun violence and the movies back in July, after a gunman killed two people during a screening of Trainwreck in Lafayette, La..

December 30, 2015 • With the NBA's new ad campaign against gun violence, commentator Frank Deford says a bunch of athletes may finally provide the first successful nudge toward stiffer firearm regulation.

The project — which is hugely topical, given President Barack Obama's new push to curb gun violence — has been penned by first time screenwriter Jonathan Perera and is being produced by FilmNation and EuropaCorp.

Aside from a scene of violence at the feature's beginning and a gun fight in the first hour, the movie's violence is mostly saved for the last thirty minutes.

January 31, 2013 • More than 200 people crowded into a Senate building on Wednesday for the first hearing on gun violence since the tragic shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.

Regardless of public opinion, it is school faculty, staff and students that will experience first - hand any changes regarding gun violence laws in education.

Less than two months ago, hundreds of local students and community members gathered in First Ward Park, to protest gun violence in schools after 17 people were killed at one in Parkland.

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With an arsenal of glass guns, sculptures of icy bears, and luminous grid - like constructions, Claire Lieberman addresses issues of violence, impermanence, and transformation in her first Atlanta solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery.

«This was the first of a series of events that I am going to host, because gun violence is so important and so pervasive that we can't address all the issues that lead to it or find solutions to end it in one meeting,» Wilson tweeted.

Spradlin, who is the president of the Young Democrats Club on campus, said there were three reasons the students participated in the walkout: first was to honor the lives of the victims; second was to show Congress that students care about the issue of gun violence; and third was to take direct action by registering students to vote and writing to members of Congress to demand change.

The Alaskan bill lingered for months but recently had a first hearing before the House Judiciary Committee — after survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting launched their #NeverAgain campaign to reduce gun violence.

This was the first time Runcie admitted that the school board bears at least part of the blame for the tragedy after school records obtained by Local 10 showed the school board was aware that Cruz, who was diagnosed as emotionally disabled, was transferred from a special behavioral center to Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 2016, even though educators were aware even before the move that Cruz was preoccupied with guns, violence and people being killed.