Sentences with phrase «president after the mass shooting»

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President Obama supported comprehensive gun reforms after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, but the effort ultimately failed in Congress.

Hours after the news broke on Sunday, President Obama addressed the nation and called the mass shooting «an act of terror.»

President TrumpDonald John TrumpPoll: Republican support for Kanye West grew after rapper expressed support for Trump Giuliani calls on Sessions and Rosenstein to shut down Mueller investigation Fox News» Ingraham calls out Giuliani for contradicting Trump on Stormy Daniels» payments: «That's a problem» MORE on Monday claimed he would have run into a Florida high school to prevent a gunman from carrying out this month's mass shooting.

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

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.

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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.

(CNN)- In remarks Tuesday touting the Obama administration's progress in addressing gun safety, Vice President Joe Biden vowed to revisit gun control legislation that failed in the U.S. Senate earlier this year, and warned legislators that the political climate shifted after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut last December.

After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the College Board, the maker of the SAT, the SAT Subject Tests, AP Tests, and other exams, issued a statement, which was sent in an email to all college admission officers, from its president and CEO, David Coleman.

PARKLAND, Fla. - When President Donald Trump visited the Broward Sheriff's Office days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sheriff Scott Israel not only gladly accepted praise from the commander in chief, but encouraged it.

When President Donald Trump visited the Broward Sheriff's Office days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sheriff Scott Israel not only gladly accepted praise from the commander in chief, but...

Surely the president was actually referring to Congress — after all these years of mass shootings — for failing to do anything about gun control.

After the latest mass shooting, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month, President Trump amplified calls to train and arm educators, roiling the teaching profession and infuriating gun control advocates who see yet another inappropriate — and potentially disastrous — duty being heaped on teachers.

President Donald Trump has suggested he's open to new gun control laws, and started a discussion about what lawmakers can do to address mass shootings in the US after he announced his support to ban bump stocks.