Sentences with phrase «gun violence given»

The film is too standard for its own good, and there are viewers who will definitely feel uncomfortable with its depiction of gun violence given current events in the country.

Murphy said the teenagers who were directly affected by the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School and have been protesting this week about gun violence give him great hope.

Murphy said the teenagers who were directly affected by the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School and have been protesting this week about gun violence give him great hope.

Not exact matches

Wells Fargo wants schools and communities to be safe from gun violence, but changes to laws and regulations should be determined through a legislative process that gives the American public an opportunity to participate.

They likely give priority to countervailing factors, such as government overreach, rather than reducing gun violence.

The gun violence restraining order proposal would give judges in North Carolina a tool similar to domestic violence restraining orders to temporarily but rapidly remove weapons from the hands of people exhibiting threatening or dangerous behavior.

Asked why Trump was attending, given the current political tensions around gun violence, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said this week that safety was a «big priority.»

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.

Given this week's national conversation surrounding gun violence and legislation, we decided this conversation about...

And yet, Americans are not willing to give up their love for their guns and violence... even Christians.

Given the recent tragic events in Las Vegas, Texas and now Parkland, Florida, and the ensuing conversation around gun violence and legislation,...

Spotlights on stage were given to groups Trump has demonized: people with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, mothers of children lost to gun violence, and a «Gold Star» Muslim - American family that publicly challenged Trump to a contest of who better represents American values.

In New York, we're building on strong laws that have helped give our state one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the country, but we know we need to do more.

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.

«Albany Day gives them a unique opportunity to share their personal stories and to ask their representatives what they are doing to address gun violence.»

In the wake of increased gun violence in New York and two mass shootings in the nation in the last few weeks, a State Senator is proposing stricter gun laws that he says could give New York the toughest gun laws in the country.

The mailing includes a schematic complete with arrows that accuses police unions of bankrolling Bellone's winning 2011 campaign, with «the county executive giving them pay hikes that have increased police property taxes 11 percent, which in turn have resulted in 150 fewer police and a 30 percent increase in gun violence.»

Its portfolio includes giving those on its 230,000 - strong mailing list a chance to endorse online petitions to legislators on timely topics (last week's letter urged Congress to support research on gun violence), a Vote for Science campaign that highlights a different issue each month, and an upcoming national summit for local activists.

Funding for research on gun violence is 1.6 percent of what would be expected, given the number of gun deaths.

«Studies like this are particularly important right now, given the incidence of gun violence in cities such as Chicago and the renewed attention to gang crime nationwide,» Berdychevsky said.

«Given a city like Philadelphia's prior experience with gun violence, the 29 percent reduction in crime reported in this trial could translate into hundreds of fewer shootings each year if the vacant land interventions tested here were scaled beyond just the locations of the study,» said Branas.

Given the complexity of legal gun carrying, Carter and his co-author included a number of control variables that helped to isolate the effects of firearm violence.

Given this heavy burden, it is greatly concerning that many aspects of the body of research on gun violence have been deemed inadequate and inconclusive by expert panels of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (4 — 6).

«If a gun regulation is most likely to be enacted in jurisdictions that have recently experienced a surge in gun violence and if that surge is temporary, the result will be that implementation of the new measure is followed by a drop in crime, giving the false appearance that it was effective,» the researchers wrote.

William, as one who lawfully carries a firearm, you apparently don't understand a truth the gun banners don't get: that used properly and defensively, a weapon can and will often PREVENT violence by disuading an attacker and by giving him a chance to rethink his life's decisions and course.

As for her means, not only is she willing to use secret surveillance methods against her opponents, she also shows barely any hesitancy to shamelessly exploit even her closest allies to achieve her goals, especially Esme Manucharian (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), which is heartbreaking given Esme's personal history with gun violence.

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.

To give students a safe forum to respond to gun violence in schools, a high school in Yonkers, N.Y., held indoor activities for #NationalWalkoutDay.

SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN CONTEXT: Kudos to John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich for producing a lovely new piece about the number of kids who've been exposed to school gun violence since Columbine, and for considering my feedback that the story would be stronger if it gave readers some context (ie, a denominator) rather than just the raw number.

The school day was lengthened by an hour, classes were restructured, teachers were given a period every day to plan and collaborate, and counseling was provided to students, most of whom had experienced gun violence, homelessness or addiction.

The March For Our Lives on March 24 and the National School Walkout on March 14 give students a chance to safely and freely express their views on school safety and gun violence.

Did some quick research gun violence is down in the last 20 years in the US opposed to it peaking over the last 50 years in the 80's and early 90's, I'm assuming it was due to all the Pong people were playing, and pixelated blood they were spilling xD This whole fiasco boils down to sniveling snakes called politicians who will further their agendas while not giving two shits who they step on in the process, it's the same everywhere.

Given such a possibility, argues Lynch, «do you really believe the topic of violence and gun control as it relates to video games is better left to people who have no interest in appreciating video games?»

Who promotes violence more efficiently: me with my articles about video games giving you a chance to let off the steam or the gun lobbies persuading the nation the only solution is MORE GUNS?!!

UPDATE 3/27/17: A coalition of 21 civil rights and gun violence prevention groups signed a letter expressing concern that iHeartRadio has not confirmed whether it gave a «talk personality of the year» award to a conservative radio host who regularly featured a racially charged segment dedicated to mocking victims of Chicago gun violence.

«Since Congress has failed the American people by ignoring the deadly scourge of gun violence, since we have failed the families of Stoneman Douglas just like we failed the families of Sandy Hook and Columbine and so many others, we owe it to students and teachers across the country to at least give them tools to help them identify dangerous behavior,» he said.

Rubio also reiterated his support for gun - violence restraining orders, which would give law enforcement and family members the ability to get a court order to keep someone who could pose a threat from buying a gun, or taking a gun away from them.

The recent march in Washington took the general conversation of gun violence and intersected racial and economic status, giving students from across the country, and from various backgrounds and ethnic groups, representation.

This week, Florida's Legislature is voting on «red flag» or «risk warrant» legislation that would give police officers the power to temporarily remove guns and ammunition from people who show warning signs of violence to themselves or others.

Beigel's mother, Linda Schulman, addressed the crowd, giving a passionate plea to help put an end to gun violence.

The bishops of Missouri have issued a statement on gun violence, and one of the bishops has given an interview explaining the thinking behind it: Missouri's four Roman Catholic bishops said the...