Sentences with phrase «guns on campus»

-- Teachers who «exclusively perform classroom duties as classroom teachers» won't be allowed to carry guns on campus, unless they have military or law enforcement experience or if they teach a Junior Reserve Officers» Training Corps program;

The bill (SB 1048) would only allow guns on campus after school hours, but Democratic Sens. Linda Stewart of Orlando and Gary Farmer of Lighthouse Point filed amendments to the bill to ban assault weapons and impose stricter background checks.

-- Florida Senate postpones gun bills: State senators postponed Wednesday a vote on a bill that would allow private schools connected to churches to allow guns on campus.

- Teachers who «exclusively perform classroom duties as classroom teachers» won't be allowed to carry guns on campus, unless they have military or law enforcement experience or if they teach a Junior Reserve Officers» Training Corps program;

The challengers defeated the incumbents and quickly got to work on the important issues like passing resolutions on Common Core, carrying guns on campus, limiting speaker participation at meetings, and increasing rigor.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction and others say more guns on campus would make schools less safe.

Although Garcia's amendment was meant as a compromise, some Democrats rejected it, saying it still allows guns on campus.

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.

He is also an advocate of the Second Amendment, allowing and encouraging students to carry guns on campus following last year's attack in San Bernardino, California.

He also said that part of the motivations were for students — who are allowed to carry guns on campus and even in dorms — to be prepared in case of «active shooter» situations.

He then encouraged students to get permits to carry guns on campus so they could «teach them a lesson if they ever show up here.»

School districts will be allowed to appoint staff members to carry guns on campus, and any gun owner caught carrying a firearm at an airport security checkpoint will be allowed to keep his weapon with no penalty.

The conversations have helped officers seek new tactics for handling high - pressure situations — like a gun on campus — and probe more deeply into the root causes that can incite such situations in the first place, such as trauma or family dynamics.

The presence of hundreds of thousands of guns on campuses increases the likelihood that students or school personnel will gain access to firearms and accidentally hurt each other.

What struck me most about this whole incident was the lack of any kind of remorse for carrying a gun on campus.

If you look above you'll see where I mentioned an elected official carrying a gun on campus.

I understand why they are doing it, but if a person wants to bring a gun on campus, they just aren't going to put it in their backpack.»

Ironically, last May, neighboring J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs went into lockdown when a student wielded a gun on campus that turned out to be a toy.

He was not authorized to have a gun on the campus in the coastal community about 115 miles (185 kilometers) south of San Francisco.

The conversations have helped officers seek new tactics for handling high - pressure situations — like a gun on campus — and probe more deeply into the root causes that can incite such situations in the first place, such as trauma or family dynamics.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, February 14, 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were gunned down on the campus where I also attend schooOn Wednesday, February 14, 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were gunned down on the campus where I also attend schooon the campus where I also attend school.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High will not allow gun rights advocate Charlie Kirk to speak on campus.

Students of West Boca High School staged a walkout Feb. 20, 2018, and left campus to march to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in the hopes of sending a message on gun violence.

This week, Liberty University, America's largest Christian university, opened a massive, multimillion - dollar gun range on campus.

We must «stand,» build a wall, patrol the campus with machine guns, and quarter our faculty in on - campus dorm rooms, for if they lived elsewhere they would bring the corruption of the outside world in to the students.

Last year, Falwell caused a controversy after appearing in a chapel service on campus, and telling students he had a gun «in my back pocket right now.»

O'Connor assured O'Sullivan and other college officials during the Aug. 21 board meeting that individuals will not be walking around campus with a weapon and police will ensure that the firearm is secure while the gun owner is on either campus.

National college campus security experts say Colgate University's lockdown and emergency response this week to a report of a man on campus who might have a gun was a textbook example of what should be done.

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Everytown for Gun Safety, a group backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has launched an ad campaign urging Georgia's Republican governor to veto legislation allowing guns on college campuses.

«If guns (on campuses) are the appropriate answer, then we owe it to our children to provide appropriate numbers of professionally trained law enforcement personnel, such as school resource officers, school safety officers and local police whose work assignment is to protect students and staff at the school,» Nesvig said.

Trump has called for more guns on school campuses.

A day after 17 people were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Republican Sen. Greg Steube scheduled a hearing for a gun bill he is co-sponsoring that would allow school officials to designate certain people to carry concealed weapons on campus.

And we were right when we showed this nation true leadership and passed marriage equality; and we were right when we stood up for the women of this state and we passed the Women's Equality Act; and we were right when we passed the most aggressive law stopping sexual violence on college campuses in the nation; and we were right when we stopped fingerprinting for food; and we were right when we led the way on climate change; and we were right when we stopped discrimination based on sexual identity; and we were right when we passed commonsense gun safety laws.

They walked past police cruisers and memorial flowers to gather the backpacks and books they had left behind as they fled, and to take their first steps toward resuming classes on a campus now indelibly linked to America's wrenching cultural battle over gun laws and how to stop mass shootings.

Drawing a sharp contrast between himself and de Blasio, Cuomo said he'd gotten bills passed on gun control, same - sex marriage and sexual assault on college campuses «by working with people, staying calm, not getting personal and finding commonality.»

Learn more about this at In the US state of Texas, gun owners can openly carry their weapons on the street and in most other public spaces, as well as on university campuses,

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

While school leaders determine how to handle each student, there are district - wide efforts to prevent guns from ever making it on campus.

On November 14th a Park City High School student reported seeing a man pointing a gun across a field on the Kearns campuOn November 14th a Park City High School student reported seeing a man pointing a gun across a field on the Kearns campuon the Kearns campus.

ORIGINAL STORY: About 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School poured into the state Capitol this morning to call for tighter gun control laws in the wake of last week's massacre on their school campus, where they met with lawmakers and planned to join with college students for a noon rally.

The panel also made a strong case that unarmed security guards on campus can't do much in the face of a gunman intent on killing, and that, at least once, an assistant principal with a gun stopped a school killer in the middle of a rampage.

-- Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will be on the University of Boulder campus this afternoon for an event with Lonnie and Sandy Phillips, who lost their daughter in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shootings, to call for urgent action on gun safety.

«If guns (on campuses) are the appropriate answer, then we owe it to our children to provide appropriate numbers of professionally trained law enforcement personnel, such as school resource officers, school safety officers and local police whose work assignment is to protect students and staff at the school,» Nesvig said.

Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

A disease of the soul that strikes harshly and unjustly, gun violence has especially taken to horrific regularity on school campuses.

MIDDLETOWN — «Up In Arms,» a multi-media group exhibition that explores the historic and social issues surrounding the divisive nature of gun ownership in the United States, will be on view in the South Gallery at Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, located at 283 Washington Terrace on the Wesleyan campus in Middletown, through Sunday, Dec. 10.

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.

«Corcoran tried to justify his betrayal by claiming the provision in the bill to arm school employees makes it «one of the greatest Second Amendment victories we've ever had» because it ends «gun free zones on school campuses,»» Hammer said in her email, referring to Corcoran's comments in an interview with the Sarasota Herald - Tribune.