Sentences with phrase «kill other civilians»

The executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence says the weapon used in the attack, an AR - 15, has no purpose for civilians other than to kill other civilians.

In 1994 the Congress saw, as matter of national security, to outlaw the sale of assault rifles, because the they saw no purpose in civilians owning weapons with the singular purpose of killing other civilians and their design made it possible to too easily convert these weapons to fully automatic operation.

Not exact matches

But there are other ways Assad can kill hundreds of civilians at once, as he's been doing for years with virtual impunity: barrel bombs.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Some people get a high by killing innocent civilians and terrorizing other people and use religion to jsutify it.

Since Romero was murdered in 1980, more than 60,000 other Salvadoran civilians have been killed - about 85 percent of them by the military and the so - called death squads (generally the military in nonmilitary guise) This is not to deny that the leftist insurgents can be ruthless, too, but as a rule they are more discriminate.

The bombing campaign has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds of people in recent days.

Regardless of what others may say, there is no reason civilians need a weapon whose SOLE purpose is killing humans, Christian or otherwise.

One claims to seek only bad guys and kills innocents by accident, the other targets civilians only and I am not sure which side does the largest damage as a percentage of population.

Apart from Joshua 6 and 8, which mentions women and children [who were not killed], all other accounts of Israel killing Canaanites in the conquest include — and only include — combatants, not civilians.

To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.

Confirming the rescue of the hostages and clearance operations in a statement, Col Sani Usman, Acting Director of Army Public Relations said, «Troops of 21 Brigade and Civilian JTF weekend conducted a fighting patrol to Zangebe, Maiwa, Algaiti and Mainari villages in which they killed 6 Boko Haram terrorists and wounded several others.

Five members of the civilian JTF were reportedly killed, and scores of others injured at a checkpoint in Konduha local government area of Borno state, northeast,...

Iran did not invade any other country or bomb the infrastructure of any other country to pieces, or kill thousands of civilians, shell schools and hospitals to the ground like some other countries did and do, to whom we in the West happily sell our sophisticated weapons.

Five members of the civilian JTF were reportedly killed, and scores of others injured at a checkpoint in Konduha local government area of Borno state, northeast, Nigeria on Tuesday following a suicide attack.

Emphasizing that Tuesday's incident in which the Air Force component of the Operation Lafiya Dole based on intelligence that the terrorists had infiltrated Rann with intent to attack, deployed rockets, he regretted that the weapons mistakenly hit IDPs camps in the town, killing over 50 civilians and wounding many others.

«So, as they approached the camps, the terrorists opened fire and killed about 15 of the Civilian JTF, while the other nine who were spiritually charmed against gunshots were killed by using their vehicles in crushing them.

The robot is permitted to fire only within human - designated kill zones, where it must minimize damage to civilian structures and other regions exempted by human operators.

Patriots Day tells the story of the Boston Marathon bombing that took place on April 15, 2013, killing 3 civilians and injuring an estimated 264 others.

The film, starring Lior Ashkenazi as a father who learns his Israeli soldier son has been killed in the line of duty, has been hotly debated in its home country due, among other things, to its depiction of a fictitious incident involving Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians, leading to a military cover - up.

This group invades America's streets, killing dozens of civilians in the suburbs, in shopping malls and many other safe havens around the country.

Fryer said that after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and other recent cases in which police killed unarmed black civilians, Fryer felt he had to know more.

I would be good if rich countries like US invest more in NGO's and other organizations to improve the lot of young people in poor countries instead of wasting loads of money on destructive technologies that kill millions of innocent civilians.