Sentences with phrase «life shooting tragedies»
Sunday's massacre, in which 29 - year - old Mateen opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9 mm Glock, took hostages, and left over 100 injured or dead, again prompted critics to draw a link between the culture of gaming violence and real life shooting tragedies.
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This dramatic rendering of a real - life tragedy recounts the final hours of Oscar Grant, who was shot by San Francisco Transit Police on New Year's Day in 2009.
In a major announcement, massive sports retail store Dick's Sporting Goods said it will no longer sell assault style weapons in the wake of the mass shooting that took 17 lives at Parkland, and the ensuing activism from survivors of the tragedy.
When tragedy strikes a school community — whether it's a death at your child's school or a loss of life so horrific that it affects us all, like the shootings at Newtown, Connecticut — the prospect of sending kids back to school can be daunting.
Some lives have changed significantly since the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — despite not being remotely related to those involved in the Feb. 14 shooting.
The Black Lives Matter movement held a peaceful demonstration in Times Square, New York, to show solidarity in the wake of the tragedies that occurred this week and to stand with the families of Delrawn Small, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, three men shot dead by police
The students behind the March For Our Lives movement, which started after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, sent a note of support, saying, «This is the most fatal shooting since the one at our school and tragedies like this will continue to happen unless action is taken.»
by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).
Originally to have been helmed by Carol Reed, and finally directed by veteran filmmaker Lewis Milestone, who had little truck with Brando's exploratory method, the film was blighted by appalling weather and even tragedy: one of the Tahitians in the film lost his life shooting one arduous sea scene.
After all it was Charlie Chaplin, the genius - clown of mechanized America, who said, «Life is a tragedy when seen in close — up, but a comedy in long - shot.»
It's proven to be a valuable, honest, and raw lens into modern life, where tragedies like school shootings, natural disasters, and political unrest have been documented in real time by regular people as the events unfold.
Gov. Rick Scott on Sunday asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the response to the Parkland school shooting, as questions mounted over the Broward Sheriff's Office's handling of the tragedy that took 17 lives.
Whether it was the Columbine school shootings more than a decade ago or the Sept. 22 suicide of an 18 - year - old gay college freshman whose sexual encounter was streamed live on the Internet, each tragedy prompts a fresh round of shock and bewilderment.