Sentences with phrase «other mass shootings»

Similar hoaxes were spread online following other mass shootings, including the 2012 assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Many of Mast's supporters were stunned by his call for banning assault weapons, including the AR - 15, used in the Stoneman Douglas massacre and many other mass shootings; background checks for anyone buying a firearm; a higher minimum age for buying various categories of guns; and banning of accessories like bump stocks that make firearms perform like automatic weapons.

The 30 - second spot begins with references to the Stoneman Douglas shooting, as well as two other mass shootings in Florida: the Jan. 6, 2017, shooting at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport that left five people dead and the June 12, 2016, shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in which a gunman killed 49 people.

As with other mass shootings that preceded this one, he knew that a standard offering of «thoughts and prayers» would come from lawmakers.

The grim assignment falls to Parkland city historian Jeff Schwartz, who has already heard from people associated with other mass shootings, telling him to collect the items with «some degree of speed.»

Katko has resisted calls for more gun control in the aftermath of other mass shootings.

Mentioning other mass shootings in recent years, «what you can say about all of them is that (the shooters) had an AR - 15, that's the one thing that's consistent,» said Democratic Leader Oscar Braynon II of Miami Gardens, who filed the amendment.

``.@NYGovCuomo banned their sale in NY in 2013,» tweeted Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi when linking to an article about the AR - 15 style weapons used in other mass shootings.

Third - grade children in Missouri are selling raffle tickets for an AR - 15 rifle, the weapon used by the killer last week in the Florida school shooting and in a number of other mass shootings, to raise funds for their baseball team.

The statement was a departure for a president who has focused on the mental health of gunmen and suspects, rather than the firearms used in the attacks, after other mass shootings.

Unlike other mass shootings, Parkland has remained in the news because of survivors» persistent activism and organizing.

The three survivors said John Groff invited them on cross-country trips to meet with other mass shooting survivors.

We are doing this for the victims of Columbine, Sandy Hook, and every other mass shooting.

Not exact matches

That has been a sharp contrast to other recent mass shootings where public debate quickly moved on after the perfunctory «thoughts and prayers» offered by many Republican politicians and outrage expressed by Democrats.

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.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

He and other Democratic leaders have previously criticized Republican members of Congress for failing to pass gun - control legislation after mass shootings.

In the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, some have argued for a reinstatement of the nationwide ban on assault weapons, while others have suggested that the solution lies in improving access to mental - health care.

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.

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

Unlike other tragic mass shootings with high death tolls in the recent past, though, it didn't fade from the headlines in the weeks afterward.

FBI background checks for gun sales spike after mass shootings By John Maines and Yiran Zhu March 12, 2018 While mass shootings may drive some people away from owning firearms, for others they are motivation to buy.

In the aftermath of the mass shootings at Sandy Hook, Columbine and Virginia Tech, among others, our community always came together to globally mourn as though we had lost members of our own family.

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.

In other words, even if you somehow completely eliminated mass shootings, America would still be an extreme outlier among developed countries in terms of both gun homicides and overall gun deaths.

Prohibiting the sale of high - capacity magazines such as the ones the shooter at our school — and so many other recent mass shootings used.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To try and pair «no prayer in school» to increases in mass shootings is to ignore a number of other, more relevant variables.

Other times, the contrast is jolting — the baby cooing in your arms as news of another mass shooting scrolls across the TV, the wedding on Inauguration Day, 2017.

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.

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

Last year, after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the other three of the city's five pension funds to further divest their holdings in companies that manufacture weapons and ammunition.

Hawaii Representative Chris Lee said: «An Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) would have enabled law enforcement to prevent the recent tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and would have prevented the seven fatalities of the mass shooting at Xerox right here in Hawaii, among many others.

«We want to prevent mass shootings from happening and while this could have happened with other types of weapons, NeverAgain believes school safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun control.

It can help prevent domestic violence, mass shootings, suicides and other instances of gun violence.

But Democratic Senate Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said more can be done to help prevent mass shootings and other types of gun violence.

The resolution, drafted by Common Council Majority Leader and SUNY New Paltz professor of American history Rennie Scott - Childress, runs nearly 800 words and includes statistics and statements on the causes and toll of mass shootings and other forms of gun violence.

Just one week after the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard which left 12 dead, Congressman Charles Rangel; Geoffrey Eaton, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Mid-Manhattan Branch; Jackie Rowe - Adams, co-founder of Harlem Mothers SAVE; Daniel Maree, founder of the Million Hoodies Movement; members of the Newtown Action Alliance and the Campaign to Unload; and other gun control activists gathered on Tues., Sept 24th.

A day after the mass shooting, New Yorkers expressed a mix of sadness, anger and resilience, and officials moved to crank up security at gay bars and other venues across the state.

Law enforcement officials are searching for multiple gunmen in a mass shooting at a service center for people with disabilities in San Bernardino, CA, which comes just five days after a gunman killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO..

«I believe the sheriff's point is that in light of recent mass shootings, the public should remain vigilant and those people with registered firearms should be prepared to defend themselves and others within the confines of the law,» he said.

The bill comes after several other state and local governments have passed contentious gun - control measures in the wake of the February mass shooting at a Florida high school.

A Connecticut lawmaker wants other states to know about a law on his state's books that could help prevent mass shootings.

Adopted after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, the SAFE Act, among other things, required mental health professionals to report any patients likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others.»

Lawmakers have homed in on bump stocks after a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas last month, where nearly 60 people were killed and more than 500 others were injured.

Orlando businessman and Democratic candidate for governor Chris King was in Tallahassee Monday on the eve of a critical House vote on a bill that could increase the age limit for gun purchases, provide additional funding for mental health and other issues in the wake of a mass shooting at a South Florida High School.

He and other Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school students survived the mass shooting that left 17 people dead and 17 others injured.