Sentences with phrase «national gun debate»

Students and teachers hugged and cried as they returned under heavy police guard to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High for the first time since a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people and thrust the huge Florida school into the center of a renewed national gun debate.

And the national gun debate appears to be moving center stage.

The national gun debate has a new, youthful face.

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«After years in which Republicans were more confident than Democrats in debating gun - control questions, the issue now energizes each side's coalition,» political analyst Ron Brownstein wrote in the National Journal in January.

«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» the company said in a statement.

This week, you have likely seen Delta in coverage of the national debate over gun control and security in U.S. schools.

Republicans in Georgia have become entrenched in a ideological intraparty battle, debating over free market ideals and gun rights with Delta Airlines and the National Rifle Association in the middle.

«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» Delta's statement said.

The Parkland, Florida shooting that killed 17 people at a high school has sparked a national debate on gun control.

With national security driving the debate, Democrats see a more powerful argument than simply advocating the need to curb gun violence in a country of 320 million that has more than 310 million weapons.

He said the move stemmed from the massacre last week that has refueled a national debate about gun control.

Despite their numbers, their steady presence in the news, their unmistakable influence on the national debate over guns, some of them were trying to be teenagers again.

As the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., stokes the national debate over firearms, it may be easy to overlook another major development in the gun world this week.

But more recently, Kashuv's tweets about debating other Parkland survivors on gun control have made national news.

Its intention to file for bankruptcy has been known at least since February, but sources told The Wall Street Journal that the filing was delayed after the school shooting in Parkland Florida on February 14 that re-awakened the national debate on gun regulations.

The recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has renewed the debate about high national rates of gun violence and what to do about it.

American Outdoor Brands, the parent company of the Smith & Wesson gun brand, replied to BlackRock in a public letter earlier this month, saying that it respects the national debate about gun safety and shares «the nation's grief» over the Parkland killings and «the desire to make our communities safer.»

The walkout unfolded amid a reinvigorated national debate over gun control and school safety, spurred in part by student survivors of the Parkland shooting.

Like other school shootings before it, the attack has renewed the national debate on gun control.

After 20 schoolchildren and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, the national debate over gun control has resumed with a fervor.

Still, in Albany, the gun debate has mirrored the national discussion on the issue as Republicans have sought measures that would provide more armed school resources officers as well as metal detectors to bolster school safety.

Two of the nation's leading gun sellers, Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods, took steps to limit their sales of firearms, thrusting themselves into the middle of the polarizing national debate over gun control.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed frustration with his fellow Democrats on the national level for what he characterized as inaction on gun control, two which U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer replied: «The national Democrats are seriously debating it, so for him to say we won't do it is incorrect.

The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by a gunman armed with an AR - 15 style assault rifle has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grounds.

National debate has heated up over the issue of gun control, and the NRA's role in opposing it, since Feb. 14, when a former student killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, using an AR - 15 assault rifle he had purchased legally.

State lawmakers returned Tuesday to Albany after a week - long break and a renewed national debate over gun control following a massacre at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

The deaths were all but certain to re-ignite the national debate over gun regulations, coming just three months after the Parkland, Florida, attack that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Shelley Meyer and Julie Killian debate attack ads, gun control and the National Rifle Association

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The racially motivated shooting by Dylan Roof led to a national debate over the prominence of the Confederate battle flag through much of the South, but a conversation over new gun control measures nationally was more muted.

Aside from the national gun control debate, stakes are high for Democrats in Colorado.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has renewed and heightened a national debate over gun control.

Obama accused the powerful pro-gun rights lobby group of peddling an «imaginary fiction» that he said has distorted the national debate about gun violence.

If none of those events were taking place, we'd likely see a lot more after - the - fact analysis on the Colorado recall results in the national landscape, given the implications for the broader debate over guns.

The latest such incident at a U.S. school underscored a national debate over gun control and gun rights that has intensified after an assailant killed 17 students and staff on Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

State lawmakers returned to Albany after a week - long break and a renewed national debate over gun control.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg says he will match donations to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group he founded, after the national debate over gun laws was reignited by the Las Vegas shooting.

Washington (CNN)- A recall election in Colorado has shown that the national debate over guns is just as bitterly contested as ever.

The shooting has reignited a national debate over gun control, with particular attention paid to «bump stocks» — devices used to modify semi-automatic rifles to mimic the speed of automatic weapons.

The Parkland shooting on Valentine's Day that left 17 people dead has renewed the national debate surrounding gun control, with many of the survivors becoming the most vocal proponents of legislative action.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, convened a town hall on Thursday afternoon that attracted roughly 100 high school students to discuss steps the city can take to ensure safety in schools amid a national debate about gun control.

The only problem is that America is still in the process of a widespread national debate about gun control, so when absolutely nothing is made of the case at the heart of the story to make room for the chases and behind - closed - doors intrigue, the issue becomes a mere afterthought, which Runaway Jury indifferently exploits for the purpose of escapism.

Along with turning up the heat in the national debate over gun laws, the horrific attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14 has introduced the nation to a new generation of articulate, passionate teenagers.

The deaths were all but certain to re-ignite the national debate over gun regulations, coming just three months after the Parkland, Florida, attack that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Unfortunately, since the President of the United States decided to interject, repeatedly, this terrible idea into the national discourse, it has become a part of the debate on what teachers ought to do in the face of gun violence in schools.

Lowell said the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in south Florida forced high school students to think more seriously about gun violence and to add their voices to the national debate over gun laws and school safety.

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It also revived a contentious national debate on gun control.

The Valentine's Day mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida that left 17 people dead has ignited a national debate about whether schools would be safer if teachers carry guns.

As a national debate continues to simmer over the best methods for protecting students from gun violence, a state senator from Southern California points out that a large number of school districts are failing to develop or update school safety plans — as required by law.