The presence of hundreds of thousands
of guns on campuses increases the likelihood that students or school personnel will gain access to firearms and accidentally hurt each other.
Not exact matches
Students
of West Boca High School staged a walkout Feb. 20, 2018, and left
campus to march to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in the hopes
of sending a message
on gun violence.
We must «stand,» build a wall, patrol the
campus with machine
guns, and quarter our faculty in
on -
campus dorm rooms, for if they lived elsewhere they would bring the corruption
of the outside world in to the students.
He also said that part
of the motivations were for students — who are allowed to carry
guns on campus and even in dorms — to be prepared in case
of «active shooter» situations.
He is also an advocate
of the Second Amendment, allowing and encouraging students to carry
guns on campus following last year's attack in San Bernardino, California.
National college
campus security experts say Colgate University's lockdown and emergency response this week to a report
of a man
on campus who might have a
gun was a textbook example
of what should be done.
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of a custom tab in action, see the petition tab
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Campus — points to an action in Salsa.
«If
guns (
on campuses) are the appropriate answer, then we owe it to our children to provide appropriate numbers
of professionally trained law enforcement personnel, such as school resource officers, school safety officers and local police whose work assignment is to protect students and staff at the school,» Nesvig said.
And we were right when we showed this nation true leadership and passed marriage equality; and we were right when we stood up for the women
of this state and we passed the Women's Equality Act; and we were right when we passed the most aggressive law stopping sexual violence
on college
campuses in the nation; and we were right when we stopped fingerprinting for food; and we were right when we led the way
on climate change; and we were right when we stopped discrimination based
on sexual identity; and we were right when we passed commonsense
gun safety laws.
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of Texas,
gun owners can openly carry their weapons
on the street and in most other public spaces, as well as
on university
campuses,
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On Thursday morning, Republican state Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County near Charlotte told other lawmakers that he recently met with a police officer who wants to talk with lawmakers about training school personnel and allowing them to carry guns on campu
On Thursday morning, Republican state Rep. Larry Pittman
of Cabarrus County near Charlotte told other lawmakers that he recently met with a police officer who wants to talk with lawmakers about training school personnel and allowing them to carry
guns on campu
on campus.
ORIGINAL STORY: About 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School poured into the state Capitol this morning to call for tighter
gun control laws in the wake
of last week's massacre
on their school
campus, where they met with lawmakers and planned to join with college students for a noon rally.
The panel also made a strong case that unarmed security guards
on campus can't do much in the face
of a gunman intent
on killing, and that, at least once, an assistant principal with a
gun stopped a school killer in the middle
of a rampage.
-- Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will be
on the University
of Boulder
campus this afternoon for an event with Lonnie and Sandy Phillips, who lost their daughter in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shootings, to call for urgent action
on gun safety.
State Superintendent
of Public Instruction and others say more
guns on campus would make schools less safe.
«If
guns (
on campuses) are the appropriate answer, then we owe it to our children to provide appropriate numbers
of professionally trained law enforcement personnel, such as school resource officers, school safety officers and local police whose work assignment is to protect students and staff at the school,» Nesvig said.
What struck me most about this whole incident was the lack
of any kind
of remorse for carrying a
gun on campus.
Sen. Al Franken's elicitation
of her lack
of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for
gun - free school zones (in front
of a Newtown representative, no less), her view
of sexual assault
on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards
of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated
on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension
of pressing educational matters?
A disease
of the soul that strikes harshly and unjustly,
gun violence has especially taken to horrific regularity
on school
campuses.
MIDDLETOWN — «Up In Arms,» a multi-media group exhibition that explores the historic and social issues surrounding the divisive nature
of gun ownership in the United States, will be
on view in the South Gallery at Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, located at 283 Washington Terrace
on the Wesleyan
campus in Middletown, through Sunday, Dec. 10.
Other incidents
of gun - related deaths
on or near
campuses include at least two suicides and a man killed in a Philadelphia high school's parking lot at a basketball game.
«Corcoran tried to justify his betrayal by claiming the provision in the bill to arm school employees makes it «one
of the greatest Second Amendment victories we've ever had» because it ends «
gun free zones
on school
campuses,»» Hammer said in her email, referring to Corcoran's comments in an interview with the Sarasota Herald - Tribune.
Cruz, a former student
of Stoneman Douglas,
gunned down 17 people at the
campus on Feb. 14.
He was not authorized to have a
gun on the
campus in the coastal community about 115 miles (185 kilometers) south
of San Francisco.
«If
guns (
on campuses) are the appropriate answer, then we owe it to our children to provide appropriate numbers
of professionally trained law enforcement personnel, such as school resource officers, school safety officers and local police whose work assignment is to protect students and staff at the school,» Nesvig said.
Democrats and
gun control advocates accused Republicans and the National Rifle Association
of using school safety to divert attention from what they see as the real issue: the proliferation
of guns that have been used in mass shootings at concerts, in movie theaters,
on college
campuses, in churches and at workplaces, as well as at public schools.
Spradlin, who is the president
of the Young Democrats Club
on campus, said there were three reasons the students participated in the walkout: first was to honor the lives
of the victims; second was to show Congress that students care about the issue
of gun violence; and third was to take direct action by registering students to vote and writing to members
of Congress to demand change.
The bill (SB 1048) would only allow
guns on campus after school hours, but Democratic Sens. Linda Stewart
of Orlando and Gary Farmer
of Lighthouse Point filed amendments to the bill to ban assault weapons and impose stricter background checks.
The brother
of the 19 - year - old who confessed to
gunning down 17 people at a Florida high school woke up in jail Tuesday following his arrest for trespassing
on the
campus.
If you want your kids to attend a high school that is rampant with several groups
of wanna - be gang banger thugs who thrive
on starting confrontations carry weapons (
guns) outside
of school jump people rob people deal drugs & threaten people inside and outside
of campus and at football games (going by names such as Porkchop TayTay Jaybird) that school admin is completely aware
of and flat out ignores then this is the school for your kids!