Sentences with phrase «high school massacre»

The student protests over gun violence during the past several months, including a huge rally in Washington, D.C., in March, were organized by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14 that left 17 people dead, including 14 students and three staff members.

Originally to be called Killing Mrs. Tingle, it was retitled in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre of the same year, although the studio denied any connection.

Florida high school massacre survivor David Hogg, who along with some of his fellow teens have turned into fierce gun - control advocates, is asking his nearly 600,000 Twitter followers to boycott advertisers of Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Deutch has received massive national attention since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, which is in Deutch's district and just a few miles from his home in West Boca.

Rapper Kanye West tweeted his admiration for Emma Gonzalez, calling her «my hero,» but the survivor of the Parkland high school massacre dismissed the honor and pointed out her own...

The U.S. House responded to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school violence.

During a listening session at the White House on last week with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre survivors, parents, and teachers, President Trump floated a suggestion that has since been echoed by many: the solution to mass shootings in schools is to arm teachers.

PARKLAND, Fla. - Here is the timeline of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre Wednesday, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.

The campaign includes an on - line petition drive and a series of ads that reference the Colorado high school massacre and also note that both President Obama and his GOP opponent, Sen. John McCain, pledged to close the loophole during the 2008 campaign.

Earlier Monday, families of the 17 Florida high school massacre victims called on the state's Legislature to pass a bill they believe will improve school security.

This was said during the first Senate committee hearing on the controversial gun and school safety measure that was crafted in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre where 17 were killed and many others were injured.

Children who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre got the message Tuesday as they watched from the House of Representatives gallery.

Schoolboy, 14, who «plotted to kill pupils and teachers in copy of Columbine High School massacre loved...

Emergency calls from parents and students during the Florida high school massacre show 911 operators at first trying to grasp the enormity of the emergency and then calmly trying to gather information to assist arriving law enforcement officers.

«What is so vital about our story I think, especially now in the age of Dylan Klebold [who, with Eric Harris, killed 13 people and injured 24 others, in the Columbine High School massacre], is that we, as parents, are really struggling with our children,» Farmiga says.

Lacking the portentous topicality of a notorious high school massacre or a grunge celebrity's suicide, Paranoid Park may seem less «important,» but the relative anonymity of the characters and incidents it depicts appears to have enabled Van Sant to achieve a higher degree of creative engagement.

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School shooting defense: The Broward County School Board is trying to limit its liability by having a court label the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre as a single incident with many victims.

The overwhelming majority of Florida voters polled in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre want stricter gun laws, including universal background checks for gun buyers, a higher minimum age for gun purchasers, and an outright ban on assault - style rifles.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre illustrates the acrimony between Scott and Nelson.

Like thousands of other students across the state, Weje and her classmates marked Friday's 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre by taking part in a ceremony that was partly a student - led demonstration and partly a sanctioned memorial service for victims of the 1999 shootings.

The U.S. House responded to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on Wednesday by voting overwhelmingly in favor of legislation aimed at helping reduce school violence.

WASHINGTON — Student survivors of the horrifying Florida high school massacre have channeled their pain into political activism.

The appellate court dismissed an indictment by Singas» office against Brian Hulsen, a custodian at an East Norwich school who prosecutors said threatened to «Columbine» his workplace — a reference to the 1999 Colorado high school massacre that left 15 dead and 24 injured.

PARKLAND, Fla. - Anthony Borges is the last of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre victims to be released from the hospital.

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

-- Students call for reforms in Tallahassee: Thousands of students rallied Wednesday outside the Florida Capitol to demand changes to gun laws in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre where 17 people were killed and 16 wounded.

Children who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre got the message Tuesday as they watched...

During a listening session at the White House on last week with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre survivors, Read More...

Here is the timeline of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre Wednesday, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.

Gov. Cuomo was lying down on the job Wednesday — joining students in a «die - in» in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park as part of the nationwide protest against gun violence on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland high school massacre.

He was one of the 17 people killed by gunman Nikolas Cruz in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on February 14.

And in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre, in 1999, the WB network delayed the airing of a third - season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which the plot included a teenager preparing for a potential school shooting.

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

The U.S. Department of Education is providing $ 1 million to the Broward County Public Schools to help costs of education related for schools that have had their learning environments disrupted by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.

Two 14 - year - old boys planned to kill pupils and teachers at their school in a re-enactment of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, a jury has...

Today, Chief Wilkinson said, the police are trained to move in and save lives during a shooting or standoff, in contrast to a generation ago — before the Columbine High School massacre and others that followed it — when they responded by setting up a perimeter and either negotiating with, or waiting out, the suspect.

Two of Broward's top elected leaders, one Democrat and one Republican, came together Thursday to consider how best to prevent a repeat of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre — but they couldn't bridge the deep and wide gulf between them on the issue of guns.

Broward County is turning to a firm that has investigated the Pulse nightclub shooting to lead its own look into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.

Ron DeSantis, a leading Republican candidate for governor and self - described «big Second Amendment guy,» says he would have vetoed the historic Florida gun - control law passed in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.

Congressman Ted Deutch said Thursday he's frustrated with the FBI, which he said hasn't adequately explained how it mishandled warnings that could have prevented the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre and what's being done to prevent a repeat.

Two of Broward's top elected leaders, one Democrat and one Republican, came together Thursday to consider how best to prevent a repeat of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre — but they couldn't bridge the deep and wide gulf between them on...

Survivors of last week's Florida high school massacre have announced a march on Washington and other major U.S. cities next month to demand tangible action so to prevent future school shootings.

A congregation in Colorado seemingly unable to minister both to the victims of the Columbine High School massacre and to the parents of one of the attackers.

A n iconic Coney Island restaurant, Gargiulo's, decided to cancel an upcoming NRA - linked event due to pressure from politicians and others in light of the Parkland, Fla., high school massacre.

Georgia lawmakers approved a bill that stripped out a tax break proposal highly coveted by Delta Air Lines — the most stinging punishment that America's pro-gun forces have leveled so far on one of the many corporations recalibrating their positions on firearms after the Florida high school massacre.

His comments drew criticism from several users on Twitter, including politicians, who thought it was inconsiderate of the president to use a mass tragedy such as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre to reiterate his criticism of the Russia investigation.