Sentences with phrase «guns near schools»

It is exactly the kind of question that Chief Justice Rehnquist raised in U.S. v. Lopez in 1995, where the question was put as to whether the federal government may ban the use of guns near schools.

If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

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However, if you slaughter your family and then take your guns to the nearest school and murder children you can expect a violent reaction from armed police so I don't think they would be deterred by an armed teacher or two.

Vermont lawmakers are turning their attention to school safety measures following the approval of a package of gun ownership restrictions that were passed in the aftermath of what officials called a near - miss school shooting in Fair Haven earlier this year.

For instance, local officials lured large numbers of Tutsis to a school near the town of Murambi, where Hutu militias used machine guns, explosives and other weapons to kill more than 40,000 people in just three days.

There are a couple of badly judged scenes near the end — in one, John takes a gun into an old folks home looking for Ella's high school sweetheart, a dreadfully flat bit of slapstick that also undercuts the valiant efforts of Mirren and Sutherland to sell us on the depth and sweetness of their long relationship.

The law, known as the Gun - Free School Zones Act, was struck down last fall by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which said that Congress exceeded its authority under the commerce clause of the Constitution when it made gun possession near public or private schools a federal offense.

Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and parents packed streets near the White House and the U.S. Capitol and marched in cities around the globe on Saturday to demand more - restrictive gun laws and decry gun violence, the latest in a series of massive demonstrations sparked by the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 people last month.

U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D - Delray Beach, quickly pointed to Republican opposition to gun control after this morning's shooting at a high school near Houston, Texas.

On Thursday morning, Republican state Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County near Charlotte told other lawmakers that he recently met with a police officer who wants to talk with lawmakers about training school personnel and allowing them to carry guns on campus.

The report suggests that government officials should pay attention to guns fired near a school, even if no police report is filed — and tracking homicides or other common metrics from police reports may not be enough.

When U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch hosted a town hall Tuesday near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to discuss gun violence, nearly two dozen politicians, primarily from throughout Broward County, showed up.

According to a report from the Leon County Sheriff's office, the 16 - year - old student attempted to pull a gun out of his jacket when a fight broke out near the Godby high school cafeteria Thursday morning.

They make the game more fun, and a few of the end levels are damn near impossible to complete without them, but if you really want to go «Old school», the guns can be put away.

At least 1,000 people attended a candlelight vigil near Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida Thursday night, sobbing openly as the victims» names were read aloud and cheering the mention of new gun laws.

Other incidents of gun - related deaths on or near campuses include at least two suicides and a man killed in a Philadelphia high school's parking lot at a basketball game.

According to Everytown Research, a nonprofit that tracks shootings and other incidents related to gun safety near U.S. schools, there have been at least 17 other incidents involving a gun fired on or near U.S. campuses in 2018.

The police presence was heavy as more than 20,000 people filled a park near the Florida school, chanting slogans such as «Enough is enough» and carrying signs that read «Why do your guns matter more than our lives?»

Parent Heather Moss, whose son attends Olympic Heights, said she was concerned about a new gun store that opened near the school.

After the Parkland school shooting, President Trump vowed to defy the NRA and push for a comprehensive gun control bill that would raise the age limit to purchase rifles, impose near universal background checks and renew a ban on assault - style rifles.

More than 1,000 people had attended a candlelight vigil Thursday night near the school, and at one point some began chanting, «No more guns!

At least one person was gunned down on a street near the school.