Sentences with phrase «mass shooting like»

The couple that took in Nikolas Cruz had no idea that the suspected gunman would engineer a mass shooting like the one that took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.

In the aftermath of a mass shooting like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL Wednesday, February 14, we call upon Congress to immediately pass legislation to make it significantly harder for deadly weapons to be used by dangerous people.

Senate Democrats have been frustrated by a lack of movement by Cornyn and other Republican leaders, and say GOP leadership in the House and Senate is the reason Congress has not been able to act to prevent another mass shooting like Parkland.

Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio stood on the Senate floor and announced a plan he said could prevent mass shootings like the Parkland massacre that left 17 dead.

More than 40 schools in Philadelphia and South Jersey have students planning to walk out of class Wednesday to protest mass shootings like the Parkland, Fla., tragedy.

Students across the country and around New York walked out of school on Wednesday to call for gun restrictions that would help prevent mass shootings like the one in Parkland.

Republican lawmakers and conservative media critics pressed President Trump on Thursday to explore new restrictions on the video - game industry, arguing that violent games might have contributed to mass shootings like the recent attack at a high school in Parkland, Fla..

Republican lawmakers and conservative media critics pressed President Trump on Thursday to explore new restrictions on the video - game industry, arguing that violent games might have contributed to mass shootings like the recent attack at a high school in Parkland, Fla..

They took their «Never Again» movement to the state capital in the hopes of putting an end to mass shootings like the Valentine's Day massacre that claimed the lives of 14 students and three teachers at their school in Parkland.

More than 40 schools in Philadelphia and South Jersey have students planning to walk out of class Wednesday to protest mass shootings like the Parkland, Fla., tragedy.

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«Like all Americans, I'm horrified by the mass shootings we've witnessed,» he said.

Just like many Americans, celebrities woke up Monday morning to news of our country's deadliest mass shooting in modern US history and expressed their pain, condolences, and shock at the horrific actions.

Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

Given the state of the country, «Far Cry 5» feels like something made for an alternate reality where mass shootings aren't common, where there isn't a raging culture war between so - called Red and Blue states, where there isn't yet another misinformed scapegoating of violent video games unfolding.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

Gun makers are again the center of a national debate over how to put an end to mass shootings, and their stocks are trading like things are different this time.

The outcry comes amid signs Americans» interest in gun control is not waning like it typically has in the wake of past mass shootings.

As a result, Republican lawmakers are more resistant to calls for gun control — arguing against «politicizing» mass shootings and focusing on issues like mental health instead.

BREAKING: Pres. Trump says he's directed AG Sessions to propose regulations to «ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns» like the bump stocks used in the Las Vegas mass shooting (which were not used in last week's Florida school shooting) pic.twitter.com / q3sqcetfCV

The AR - 15 assault rifle, and others like it, is commonly used in mass shootings in the United States.

Data in the public domain like tweets and social media video is increasingly relied on to make sense of the immediate aftermath of tragedies like mass shootings.

On the same programs after the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino — which, like the rampage in Florida, occurred on a Wednesday — the same words were spoken 200 times.

President Trump announced his support for regulating items like the so - called bump stock, which was used in the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

In the wake of this weekend's deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) proposed a ban on the «bump stock,» a device that makes semiautomatic weapons function like automatic ones, which are generally banned in the United States.

He acknowledged that the House was drafting legislation similar to that proposed by the Senate that will place new limits on access to semiautomatic assault rifles, like AR - 15s, something the Florida Legislature refused to do after mass shootings killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub in 2016 and 5 at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport last year.

While legislation like that might have prevented some mass shootings, those two proposals wouldn't necessarily be top priority for reducing gun violence in urban areas, like Chicago or Philadelphia.

Like other highly engaged gun control proponents, in other words, his focus isn't really on reducing the lethality of mass shootings via modest gun regulations.

I — I — I'm fully aware that you've got situations like this, with a mass shooting with an AR - 15.

It's like they're creating this whole trauma within this generation of mass shootings.»

For black Parkland students like 17 - year - old Kai Koerber, calls to increase police presence on campus and other security measures proposed after the February mass shooting have only made them more anxious.

Details are still coming in, but it looks like four people have been killed in a mass shooting 50 miles outside Harrisburg, Penn..

It seems like an attainable goal considering the continuing pattern of mass shootings in the US and Norway.

The national conversation tends to skip over how much this demographic — who came of age with mass tragedies like the Columbine shooting and 9/11 — want a candidate who conveys a sense of protection in what they see as an «increasingly dangerous world.»

And he believes, instead of concentration camps like Auschwitz, mass shootings have become «the base for modern genocide.»

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For months, we've been discussing gun violence in response to mass shootings in towns like Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut.

At 10 a.m., Sen. David Carlucci and the state Psychological Association's President - Elect, Alan Hack, PhD will be holding a press conference calling on state lawmakers to amend the mental health law to keep the public safe from a harmful attack, like a mass shooting, 20 South Main St., New City.

Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, D - Albany, said she'd like to see action on a bill she introduced last week to ban possession, sale and manufacture of bump stocks, devices used in the Las Vegas mass shooting that allow a semi-automatic firearm to fire at a faster rate.

Like Clinton, Cuomo tore into Sanders for voting against the Brady bill and for his vote to shield gun manufacturers from liability for mass shootings.

This year, Gov. Cuomo and some lawmakers are pushing bills to keep firearms out of the hands of anyone convicted of a domestic violence crime and to outlaw bumpstock devices like the ones used in last year's Las Vegas mass shooting.

President Trump announced his support for regulating items like the so - called bump stock, which was used in the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Meaning, firearms like the very popular AR - 15, which has increasingly become a weapon of choice among many mass shooters, including the individual who murdered seventeen people in the shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

More than three - quarters support outlawing the sale and possession of bump - stock devices like the one used in the Las Vegas mass shooting last year.

From terrorist attacks, to mass shootings, the world seems like a much smaller and scarier place to live.

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That means not just war, but sexual assault, natural disasters like earthquakes or hurricanes, mass shootings, motor vehicle accidents, and more.

Images like these don't dream themselves to life — it takes months of planning, negotiation, co-ordination and masses of energy and focus come shoot day, to ensure that the original vision is fulfilled.

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As mass shootings invade American life on a terrifyingly routine basis nowadays, the November 17 launch of Marvel's The Punisher brings a conflicted cacophony of gunfire and blood - dripping militarism and nihilism that makes Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies look like a philosophical pillow fight.

Whether it's mass violence in history or the violence of today — like the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida where 17 people were murdered by a former student.