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Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County took up a microphone and said the U.S. has had enough of deadly shootings.

Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County declared the U.S. has had enough of deadly shootings and that he was personally saddened to have to go through the crime scene of a «horrific killer» 30 minutes after the attack last week.

It was the latest in a long series of deadly shootings at U.S. schools.

As educators and experts assess the quality of student mental - health services in light of the deadly shootings last month at Virginia Tech, the gunman's immigrant background is focusing attention on what those who work with immigrants say is a lack of services tailored to such groups.

The price and popularity of a Confederate flag on Amazon spiked just before Amazon stopped selling all such items in the wake of deadly shootings in Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

(CNN) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the scene of a deadly shooting Wednesday, is in Parkland, which was named Florida's safest city last year.

While at Mar - a-Lago over the long weekend, Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss the Republican Party's agenda, as calls grow for both the administration and Congress to take action on gun control in the wake of a deadly shooting at a nearby Florida high school.

The measure, which has the support of both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, was introduced last fall, in the wake of a deadly shooting at a rural Texas church house, where 26 people were killed.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is applying more pressure on President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to release a comprehensive gun control plan in the wake of the deadly shooting in Coloroda.

In the wake of the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the 18th school shooting to occur in the U.S. in 2018, many have attempted to focus the debate on the possibility of arming school teachers and other school employees as a way of deterring and preventing future school shootings.

As news of the shooting began to spread, students from Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, the site of a deadly shooting in February, began tweeting.

Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump cancelled campaign events today in light of the deadly shooting of police officers in Dallas, TX.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said there was an armed officer on duty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at the time of the deadly shooting, but the officer never encountered the suspect.

Protesters rally against gun violence on the steps of the old Florida Capitol in Tallahassee on Feb. 21, the one week anniversary of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Liberty City is about 40 miles from Parkland, Florida, site of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School two weeks ago.

Oprah is joining the Clooney's in donating $ 500,000 to support of the survivors of the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida.

First Lady Melania Trump said she has, «been heartened to see children across this country using their voices to speak out and try to create change» in the wake of the deadly shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.

MIAMI - DADE COUNTY, Fla. - In the wake of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the question on everyone's mind is how to keep students safe.

(CNN)- Survivors of the deadly shooting rampage at a Parkland, Florida, high school led thousands Saturday in a March for Our Lives on Washington, delivering their impassioned pleas for stricter gun control law to the nation.

Students at New Britain High School walked around the block carrying signs and chanting messages putting a focus on gun violence and school safety in the wake of a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 13 students and four adults were killed by a man wielding an assault rifle.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement via Twitter that in addition to the US president calling for the nation's flags to be flown at half - staff, the Senate will hold a moment of silence on Thursday to pay respect to the victims of the deadly shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida,

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Delta's move to end discounts for NRA members came in the wake of this month's deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead and reignited the gun control debate in America.

The company joins a long list of businesses that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association or sought to clarify their relationship with the industry since a deadly shooting in Florida last month.

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.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

Millions of people draped in the rainbow hues of LGBT pride turned out for the annual parade through New York streets, two weeks after a deadly mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub stirred fear and solidarity among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

FedEx Corp. is maintaining discounts for members of the National Rifle Association, even as calls for a boycott mount on social media after a deadly school shooting in Florida.

Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old suspect armed with an assault rifle, was charged with 17 counts of murder in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

In light of the deadly mass shootings in Florida last week, Caraway said he was seeking to put citizens first, and found hosting the convention at this time to be inappropriate.

The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.

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.

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

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.

A fresh wave of scrutiny for pensions and money managers that own stocks of gun makers after the deadly shootings in a Florida high school.

An analysis of the five deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history reveals that shares of those three companies traded down from the day of the incident to one week later, but not by as much as they are reacting now to the high school shooting in Florida.

Vox reports that this is now «the deadliest mass shooting in American history,» surpassing the death toll of 32 at Virgina Tech and 27 at Sandy Hook.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

(CNN) Students around the United States are walking out of class to demand tougher gun laws in response to last week's deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, but some schools are threatening them with harsh punishments.

This has been true for some time now, but after five months of particularly deadly mass shootings, it seems at least some activists are saying enough is enough.

MIAMI — Gun control legislation is moving at an unusually fast pace in the Florida Capitol following a deadly high school shooting, which has pushed state lawmakers and the governor to act after years of loosening restrictions on firearms.

Late Wednesday, detectives were digging into the past of the 19 - year - old who had no previous arrests but had displayed plenty of troubling behavior before officers took him into custody after what ranks as the third - deadliest school shooting in American history.

But he's also 16 years old and a survivor of a deadly mass shooting, one that he spent in hiding for two hours, trying to calm down crying classmates until a SWAT team freed them from a classroom closet.

Obama believes new gun control measures could help stem the tide of mass shootings in the United States in the wake of the deadly Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP)-- Student survivors of the deadly Florida school shooting who hope to become the face of a revived gun control movement are on a potential collision course with President Donald Trump.

On Feb. 14, Nikolas Cruz entered the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and conducted one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

Family and friends remembered the 17 victims of Wednesday's shooting, the deadliest school shooting in five years

Six days after an even deadlier massacre in Las Vegas, in October, each newspaper printed a single shooting - related story on page one, for a combined total of three.

A former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

But this year's speech comes as the issue of gun violence takes on new urgency after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.