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The United States (while it has not ratified the treaty, it remains a signatory) is in violation of these articles through its negligence to properly and adequately protect children from gun violence while they are at school.

Liev Schreiber shows his support for the fight to end gun violence while attending the March for Our Lives on Saturday morning (March 24) in New York City.

A Texas school superintendent threatened to suspend any student who protests gun violence while on school grounds — on the same day a kid threatened to shoot up a district...

Gillibrand has said she would work to fight gun violence while still protecting hunters» rights.

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The World Health Organization lists car - related death as one of the top 10 killers in the world, while far more people die of traffic fatalities in the United States than through gun violence.

While the vast majority of firearms fatalities are still suicides, which make up about two - thirds of gun deaths, gun homicides ballooned from 9,600 in 2015 to 11,000 in 2016 due to increased gun violence in Chicago and certain other cities, according to the CDC.

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.

While federal gun control laws are stalled, the group's school violence prevention training programs are expanding rapidly across the country, including to the Los Angeles public school district.

While gun violence and homicides have generally declined over the past couple of decades, America is still a big outlier among developed nations when it comes to both.

Based on the research, the presence of more guns typically translates to much more general gun violence, while justified uses of a gun for self - defense are few and far between.

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.

But while the protests against gun violence and perceived inaction by lawmakers grow, so does the list of incidents involving schools.

While Dick's supports the Second Amendment, gun violence is an epidemic, Stack wrote.

While legislation like that might have prevented some mass shootings, those two proposals wouldn't necessarily be top priority for reducing gun violence in urban areas, like Chicago or Philadelphia.

While the poll illustrates the differences in the country over how to respond to gun violence, it also highlights the intense frustration with the lack of any policy response coming out of Washington despite a series of horrific shootings in recent years.

While he didn't address March for Our Lives or gun violence explicitly during his Palm Sunday sermon, Pope Francis did shine a light on all the young people involved in the movement, telling the tens of thousands before him: «Young people, you have it in you to shout.

Random gun violence is often impossible to predict, similarly challenging to prevent and incredibly rare, while military intervention is always pre-meditated and planned and entirely avoidable.

Apparently, in a country with no danger of gun violence, it's a priority to warn against getting hammered, putting on an entire greasy pan full of sausages, and then passing out on the couch while they burn an apartment block to the ground.

«Yet since Sandy Hook, another 4,000 people have died from gun violence, while Washington remains paralyzed.

«While the federal government will not take action to combat gun violence, New York should use data to expose states that are part of the problem.»

Paul McCartney tried to imagine a world without gun violence — while standing just steps away from the spot where his former bandmate John Lennon was murdered.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., co-founder of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, said, «While New York has long been a leader on gun control, there is still urgent work to be done to prevent gun violence in our homes and in our commViolence, said, «While New York has long been a leader on gun control, there is still urgent work to be done to prevent gun violence in our homes and in our commviolence in our homes and in our communities.

«Connecticut and Indiana have demonstrated the effectiveness of allowing police to work through the courts to temporarily reduce access to guns when there is strong evidence that someone is at risk of violence, while California and Washington State have taken the critical step of extending their laws to enable family members of someone who may be in crisis to initiate this process.

While hearing testimony from numerous speakers, including relatives of victims of local gun violence, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand renewed her call to pass a bill that would make illegal gun trafficking a federal offense.

And while the event was not meant to solve poverty or gun violence in the city, it brought a very diverse community to stand together against any kind of violence they may face next.

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

The event looks to bring awareness to youth and gun violence within the community, while gathering local residents and community organizations to highlight the importance of community involvement, youth empowerment and education.

While the federal government fails to address the issue of gun violence, we continue to fight to keep guns out of the hands of those who could devastate our communities and our residents.»

«While the federal government will not take action to combat gun violence, New York should use data to expose states that are part of the problem,» Gianaris said.

Democrats, women, liberals, moderates, New York City, black, and Jewish voters and voters over the age of 55 said the incident should lead to stronger gun control laws, while Republicans, men, conservatives, and upstaters said some acts of violence simply can't be prevented.

During his speech detailing gun violence in the nation, President Obama began to cry while talking about the Sandy Hook massacre.

In a statement local Assemblyman Michael Blake said, «We are reminded that we need greater community and police relations, to get rid of these guns from our communities, provide economic opportunities so Bronxites don't go down the wrong path and ensure that violence is reduced while trust is gained.

While Republican senators have been loath to tackle gun control issues since allowing Cuomo's SAFE Act to the floor in 2013, both senators confirmed that there still is discussion about the governor's proposals to take guns from people accused of domestic violence.

A demonstrator holds a sign reading «Enough is Enough» while protesting gun violence outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 21.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

«While we don't have all the facts and our focus must be on the victims, this is yet another senseless and horrific act of violence involving guns.

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.»

While the US Supreme Court debates a gun ban for domestic violence convictions, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing to close a domestic violence gun loophole.

While there are some differences in these three examples, one item is a constant: the ever - growing divide between the funding needed for social programs to combat issues like addiction and drug overdose deaths and gun violence, and the willingness of our elected officials to provide the necessary funds.

While much of the discussion about gun reform revolves around high caliber fire arms, the Brooklyn students and their families deal with issues around smaller illegal hand guns and gang violence in their communities.

Even while many voted for it, Democrats called it a «stupid» and meaningless bill that would do nothing to reduce gun violence.

Some gun policies, such as background checks, do curtail gun violence (down arrows), while others, like concealed carry laws, lead to an uptick (up arrows).

Instead, an official report that accompanies the legislation notes that while it includes language to prohibit the CDC and other agencies from funding activities to advocate or promote gun control, «the Secretary of Health and Human Services has stated the CDC has the authority to conduct research on the causes of gun violence».

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.

While our nation considers how to address gun violence, it is important to remember that scientific research can help us understand risk factors and the impacts of gun policy interventions at federal, state and local levels,» said Rush Holt, chief executive officer of AAAS, in a March 13 letter sent to President Donald Trump and congressional leadership.

Often lost in the debate on gun violence is the fact that the victims become mere numbers in the public eye, while the survivors vanish altogether.

Moments later, Beck is taking on «the entire offensive line» of an American pro-football team with little effort, and it is as though Arnie has been reincarnated on screen — except that, while Beck may be a kick - ass «retrieval expert» of bull - like proportions and astonishing resilience, he is also genuinely eager to avoid violence («I don't want to fight» being his catchphrase), phobic about gun - use (until the inevitable pump - action finale, naturally), and really just interested in opening his own restaurant — and, unlike the he - men portrayed by Arnie, Sly and other eighties right - wingers (most of whom have in fact gone on to open their own restaurants), Beck can bang articulate sentences together as well as heads.

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While not gory or explicit, the demonstrated martial arts moves, gun play, and knifing could offer a multitude of ideas for impressionable minds to mimic, and does little to portray resolving conflict without violence.

While students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people and wounding more in the Florida school shooting sat in court silently, his head bowed.