Sentences with phrase «passed after the school shooting»
The rally is the latest of several calling on the state to repeal the SAFE Act, which was the first gun control act passed after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn..
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The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage, at a high school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.
The law was passed March 9, nearly a month after Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland with an AR - 15 rifle.
A Democratic - controlled Congress back in 2010 didn't have the political capital to pass gun laws (some Democrats have since said that was a mistake), and Congress failed to expand background checks in 2013 after the 2012 Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting.
The SAFE Act, a package of gun control provisions was passed in the Legislature about a month after the elementary school shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 students.
New York already has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation, known as the SAFE Act, and passed after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings five years ago.
Known as the SAFE Act, it was passed shortly after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut at the request of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The W.F.P. challenge is the most tangible manifestation of the frustration expressed by progressives toward Cuomo, and their displeasure that he has governed as a fiscal moderate, choosing to burnish his liberal credentials with social issues, like a push to legalize same - sex marriage and a new gun control law passed after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Just after the Sandy Hook school shooting, a lot of states passed tougher gun control measures.
Just two days after New York legislators passed first - in - the - nation gun law reforms in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the state's chief financial officer says pension fund investments in firearm companies have been frozen.
It was left in limbo after Assembly Democrats shot down a Senate Republican attempt to tie the renewal to a set of measures that would benefit charter schools; Republicans in turn refused to pass a standalone measure on mayoral control.
The SAFE Act passed the New York State Legislature in a whirlwind January 2013 vote, soon after 26 people — 20 students and six adults — were shot and killed on Dec. 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn..
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.
Sharpe said the gun control legislation passed after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting does not make people safe.
ALBANY — Nearly three weeks after the Parkland, Fla., mass school shooting, the state Senate Monday passed what they dubbed a school safety package.
The law was passed roughly a month after the fatal shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
The bill passed the House exactly one month after 17 students and staff were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..
The school safety assistant program will put an armed employee at each of Duval County's 107 elementary and alternative schools so that the district is in compliance with the new state law passed after the Parkland school shooting.
It also faced a backlash after videos appearing to exploit children slipped passed its filters on YouTube, inappropriate videos appeared on YouTube Kids (paywall), and, more recently, conspiracy videos targeting survivors of the Parkland school shooting appeared in YouTube's Trending page.
After the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama struggled to get Congress to pass gun legislation, ultimately issuing a series of executive orders aimed at curbing gun violence.