Sentences with phrase «safer after the massacre»

But members of the Broward Charter Review Commission, which proposes charter amendments for consideration by the county's voters, said they had to take action to make the county safer after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

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New York passed the NY SAFE Act, which banned assault weapons such as the AR - 15, in 2013 after the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut.

The ad touts the SAFE Act, passed about a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and includes imagery of Cuomo mourning.

«This change starts with doing everything in our power to keep guns out of the hands of people too dangerous to have them,» said Cuomo, who led the passage of the 2013 SAFE Act a month after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

She said she was most proud of fighting for the so - called Safe Act, a gun - control law that New York enacted after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a process known as fracking.

The speech came shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and Cuomo focused on his seven - point SAFE Act that featured the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, required more stringent background checks for gun sales, and banned direct ammo sales over the internet.

In his address to the nation the day after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 students and teachers and injured another 14, President Donald Trump vowed to take action, stating that he would soon hold meetings with governors and attorneys general in which «making our schools and our children safer will be our top priority.»

Not even 24 hours after the massacre, threats began pouring into schools across the country, prompting schools to not only ensure parents their children were safe, but also to examine what measures they had in place to prevent a tragedy in their district.