Sentences with phrase «mass shootings killed»

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.

The organization considers any event where four or more victims were injured (regardless of death) to be a mass shooting, and in 2014, some 274 mass shootings killed 264 people.

Take Australia: In 1996, the country enacted strict laws and a gun buyback program after a mass shooting killed 35 people in Tasmania.

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On Friday, Facebook Inc said it took down a profile that the company believed belonged to San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband is accused of killing 14 people in a mass shooting that the FBI is investigating as an «act of terrorism.»

Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old suspect that killed 17 people in a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, Wednesday, was armed with an assault rifle and had a gun obsession.

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

Whatever spurred the event, it is now the deadliest mass shooting in US history — and Paddock's victims join a growing number of people in the US that were intentionally killed at the end of a gun.

A gunman pledging allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

A sniper in the Oct. 1 Las Vegas mass shooting used such a device to kill 58 concert - goers.

Even before recent mass shootings that killed dozens of people, a group of nuns quietly put together a plan to pressure gun makers

Another group is planning a national walk - out on April 2o, which marks 19 years since the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting, in which 12 students and one teacher were killed.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters)- Panicked callers to 911 during June's mass shooting in Orlando told police of buildings hit by stray bullets and wounded friends stuck inside the gay nightclub where a gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State killed 49 people.

Shooter Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 at the Pulse nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

From 1966 to the Valentine's Day that my school proved to be less than bulletproof, nearly 1,100 people have been killed in mass public shootings in the U.S..

Lane's death became an instant cable news sensation, cutting into coverage of another tragedy in the area — the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at Pulse nightclub, where a gunman killed 49 and injured 53.

After one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — 20 children and seven adults killed, not including the gunman — polls show that a slight majority of Americans favor restrictions on guns.

It's unclear if he always planned to get away; though some mass shooters kill themselves or expect to be shot dead by police, not all do, experts note.

Alhadeff was one of the 17 victims killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday.

State lawmakers passed no restrictions on guns after the fatal shooting of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in 2016 and the mass shooting that killed five at the Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport in 2017.

The mass murder at Columbine High School in 1999 was one of the first in a new pattern of school shootings: It was premeditated, with the goal of killing as many people as possible.

To honor her birthday, more than 100 friends and family members gathered to celebrate Alyssa, who was killed in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The law's passage came as a surprise to many in Florida, where lawmakers had failed to enact legislation after the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, which left 49 dead, and the shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport that killed five people in 2017.

Equality Florida, the largest LGBT rights group in the state, posted the GoFundMe fundraiser shortly after a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens more at a gay club in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history Sunday morning.

Max Schachter, father of Alex Schachter who was killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, holds a replica NBA trophy with his son Ryan and Miami Heat forward Josh Richardson.

But when news broke of a mass shooting in a Parkland, Florida, school — which killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others — Brown said it shocked him: He graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who died in the gunfire, was his classmate.

Each of the recent mass shootings in the U.S. has followed a similar pattern — after the killings, there's a nationwide pang of sadness, a hot flash of anger; but then, after several days of thoughts and prayer and Facebook debates, the conversation dies down.

They survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this past Valentine's Day that killed 17 of their peers and teachers and have since appeared on countless cable - news segments and magazine covers calling for stricter gun legislation.

Roughly 1,077 people have been killed in mass shootings since 1966 — 176 of them children and teenagers.

Although largely a local media figure, Allman's remarks drew national attention both because of how out - of - line they were and because they exemplified a broader pattern in conservative media of personally attacking Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, and other survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people.

In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American history.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

Sean Simpson, 43, a science teacher who voiced some support for arming teachers following the Feb. 14 mass shooting that killed...

People participate in a candlelight vigil in memory of the 17 students and faculty who were killed in the Wednesday mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018.

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

Republicans rammed a bill through the House on Wednesday that would make it easier for gun owners to legally carry concealed weapons across state lines, the first significant action on guns in Congress since mass shootings in Nevada and Texas killed...

The use of high - powered semiautomatic rifles in recent mass shootings, including by Cruz, police say, and in last year's killing of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas, has sparked calls to reinstate the 10 - year ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004.

Tell you what, you get a bunch of your believer buddies together and pray the next time someone tries to carry out a mass shooting that he has a brain aneurism before he can kill anyone.

France started 2015 with a mass shooting at the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris; the year ended with another 130 killed in coordinated terrorist attacks across the city.

There may or may not be a God, but if there is, I sure hope he (or she or it) does not go around raising up killers, plying them with semiautomatic weapons, goading them to target practice, encouraging them to plot mass killings and cheering them on as they shoot multiple bullets into screaming 6 - and 7 - year - old children.

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

Boko Haram has killed thousands of people in Nigeria and surrounding areas — most of them Muslims — in village raids, bombings and mass shootings in the last seven years.

Pomeroy and his wife were out of town, but, their 14 - year - old daughter Annabelle was present, and was one of the people killed in the mass shooting.

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 406 others were injured after a gunman opened fire on an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

The movement sparked by students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, in the wake of 17 of their classmates being killed in a mass shooting, ought to tell us some things about Generation Z that church leaders should take note of if they want to reach this generation for Christ.

The American Civic Association in the heart of downtown Binghamton is marking the ninth anniversary of a mass shooting incident in which 13 people (plus the shooter, who took his own life) were killed.

«It's interesting that so many of the people who end up committing mass murders end up being Democrats,» she said during a discussion about a push for gun control following a shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

The man who killed 10 people in one of the largest mass shootings in New York City in decades was released from prison earlier this year.

In addition to meeting victims, the Trumps thanked doctors, nurses and medical professionals for their response to Wednesday's mass shooting, when a teen gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, north of Miami.

The president and Congress have been struggling to respond to public demands to stop mass shootings at schools since a former student armed with an AR -15-style rifle killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.

For example it is good to kill a person who is committing mass shooting.