Sentences with phrase «guns killing people»

The comparison about guns killing people may not have been the best argument.

Because cars kill people or guns kill people, does that make the gun or the car wrong?

Most anti-gun lobbyists say that guns kill people.

People with guns kill people.

Not exact matches

Several of the tweets simply listed the names of people killed by guns, with well over 100 mentioned as of noon Thursday.

Authorities said a lone shooter who had carried a gun in his checked bag got off a plane at the Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport Friday afternoon and shot 13 people, killing five of them, at a baggage claim area.

The announcement comes after it was revealed that the Las Vegas shooter used bump stocks on his guns when he killed at least 58 people and injured hundreds more on Sunday.

Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old suspect that killed 17 people in a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, Wednesday, was armed with an assault rifle and had a gun obsession.

President Donald Trump says that if he had been at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed earlier this month, he would have run into the building to stop the shooter — even if he didn't have a gun.

«The only reason to modify a gun is to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible,» Feinstein said.

Assaults by firearm kill about 11,000 people in the US each year, which translates to a roughly 1 - in - 370 lifetime chance of death from gun violence.

This week, polls suggest the opposite: people do not think that the executive actions will reduce the number of people killed by gun, but they solidly support the proposals.

Whatever spurred the event, it is now the deadliest mass shooting in US history — and Paddock's victims join a growing number of people in the US that were intentionally killed at the end of a gun.

Democrats have revived the gun debate after 49 people were killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, the worst such incident in modern history.

With Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton having admitted to gunning down eight people, killing six of them, Saturday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Uber's background check system is under increased scrutiny by the media and its own customers.

Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.

Even before recent mass shootings that killed dozens of people, a group of nuns quietly put together a plan to pressure gun makers

The Parkland, Florida shooting that killed 17 people at a high school has sparked a national debate on gun control.

The sporting - goods chain sold a gun to Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, though a different gun was used in the shooting.

Following the shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, the nation has been engulfed in a debate over gun control.

As Congress returns from recess this week, the big question is whether the shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed at least 17 people, and injured more than a dozen others, will push Congress to actually do something on guns.

The comments come after the Air Force admitted that it failed to submit records that may have blocked Devin Kelley, who shot and killed 26 people at a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Sunday, from buying guns.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

At a candlelight vigil Thursday night for the 17 people killed in a Florida school shooting, attendees chanted, «No more guns.»

Andrew Pollack's daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 people killed a week ago during a gun rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

«They are the Formula One cars of guns, designed to kill as many people as quickly and efficiently as possible,» Mr. Plenzler said, referring to AR -15-style rifles.

The FBI said the caller provided information about «Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.»

If you set out to write a parody of gun control, it might look like the real news from London, where guns don't kill people, knives do.

Bombs attached to cars were ETA's main mode of killing, but it also gunned down police, politicians and business people in targeted assassinations

State lawmakers passed no restrictions on guns after the fatal shooting of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in 2016 and the mass shooting that killed five at the Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport in 2017.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

The people who have risk protection orders filed against them range in age from a 14 - year - old boy who classmates claimed «wanted to kill someone to see how it feels» to a 63 - year - old man who, court records state, was «seeing spirits» and purchased two shots guns and two handguns, insisting «I can buy as many (firearms) as I want.»

A week after a gunman opened fire with an AR -15-style assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and prompting a rash of student - driven lobbying for new gun restrictions, Mr. Trump met for more than an hour with grieving people in search of solutions.

Colorado required background checks for private gun sales and limited magazines after 12 people were killed at a movie theater in 2012.

The FBI had a tip that Nikolas Cruz owned guns, wanted to kill people, and could be a future school shooter more than a month before Cruz killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday.

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

The FBI released a statement on Friday saying they received a warning from someone close to Cruz who had talked about «Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts.»

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP)-- An 80 - year - old man shot two people, killing one, at a Northern California apartment complex and later turned the gun on himself, authorities said Thursday.A woman died and a man remained hospitalized in intensive care...

The FBI acknowledged on Friday that a person close to Cruz contacted their tip line on January 5, a month before the shooting, to provide information about his gun ownership, desire to kill people, and disturbing behavior.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting in a Parkland high school that killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others, pressure mounted for Congress to actually do something on guns — and Trump seemed enthusiastic about the idea.

Before the march, he worked on his speech, trying to find a way to appeal to parents, to help people understand the huge responsibility of owning guns, of something that can injure and kill.

In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American history.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

Photos of the hotel suite used by the gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas on Sunday provide a glimpse of the arsenal of guns and ammunition that were in his possession.

Teenagers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida began pushing for gun restrictions almost immediately after a former student killed 17 people at the school in February.

President Donald Trump made headlines Monday when he asserted that he would have rushed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to help during the school shooting earlier this month that killed 17 people — even if he didn't have a gun.

Cars kill more people, gun people will rationalize to you, as you bury your dead son.

Guns are designed to assist people in killing, and that is what is happening.

Enough of the «guns don't kill people» BS.

Children with up to 11 bullet wounds, and some are still insisting that guns don't kill people.