Sentences with phrase «shooting after mass shooting»

We have had to witness mass shooting after mass shooting.

As America has suffered through mass shooting after mass shooting, it often seems there is an unbridgeable chasm between activists calling for reforms and gun rights purists who have worked to redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment through the courts and exercise outsize influence on legislatures.

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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.

(To be sure, such support typically soars after a mass shooting.)

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

«This epidemic of mass slaughter — this scourge of school shooting after school shooting.

Millions of people draped in the rainbow hues of LGBT pride turned out for the annual parade through New York streets, two weeks after a deadly mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub stirred fear and solidarity among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

In a stock market reaction that has become familiar after mass shootings, shares of Smith & Wesson and rival Sturm Ruger & Co spiked as much as 11 percent on Monday.

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

Millner also pointed out that the quarter came a year after a mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which led to an increase in gun sales due to worries that about potential new gun restrictions.

Just over four months to the election, and facing pressure from their Democratic opponents, most Republican Senate incumbents opted for consistency despite the political frenzy days after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

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

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

At the age of 40, after two failed, previous attempts, the Michigan - born engineer took another shot at building a powerful, but affordable and reliable, mass - produced car.

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.

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

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

The Dallas Mavericks owner made the donation to support the department's enhanced presence after the mass shooting in Orlando.

Two days after a mass shooting in an Orlando gay nightclub raised concerns about home - grown terrorism, a two - year - old boy visiting Disney's Grand Floridian Resort with his parents was snatched by an alligator while playing in the lagoon.

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

Democrats pushing for gun curbs after the latest mass shooting in the United States are co-opting a Republican mantra to build public support and defang opposition: It's time to get tough on national security.

Australia's success in tightly restricting gun ownership after its worst mass shooting, and the concomitant reduction in gun crimes and mass shootings, is likely to be held up by proponents of gun control as an example for what the U.S. should do after its latest mass shooting on Sunday.

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.

On Wednesday evening, after at least 14 people died in a mass shooting in Southern California, Snapchat collected and curated photos and videos from the event.

It was the 377th time Americans have witnessed a mass shooting in 2017 alone, and comes just over a month after the horror in Las Vegas, which was the deadliest mass shooting in contemporary U.S. history.

David Hogg rode his bike to school after the shooting to film as a journalist and then found himself on Fox News, where he said there couldn't be another mass shooting.

This has been true for some time now, but after five months of particularly deadly mass shootings, it seems at least some activists are saying enough is enough.

After one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — 20 children and seven adults killed, not including the gunman — polls show that a slight majority of Americans favor restrictions on guns.

«A real leader would have gotten Congress to pass a ban on bump stocks after the horror of Las Vegas, the worst mass shooting in modern American history,» Ambler said.

Students from the school in Parkland, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, sprang into political action after losing classmates and teachers in the Feb. 14 mass shooting.

One week after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., I have a thought and a prayer.

Deerfield Beach high school students arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland after walking the 11 miles from school to school in support of the victims of the mass shooting.

Wade — whose return to Miami at February's trade deadline came just before the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and who worked to pay tribute to the fallen students there and engage with the survivors after that tragedy — asked Shaw what he hoped would come of his experience at the Waffle House and its aftermath.

We are mourning the deaths of 17 students and adults after Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

Florida's pro-gun approach came under scrutiny after mass shootings in Orlando in 2016 and in Fort Lauderdale, but little changed.

Although gun sales rose consistently during the Obama years, most of these sales were to existing owners, reacting to his appeals for more stringent laws after several mass shootings during his time in the White House.

Gun share prices rise after mass shootings with the perception that tighter gun control rules will follow and that people need to better protect themselves.

An emotionally charged school security forum Wednesday evening in Plantation drew hundreds of people who complained about what they called an ineffective response before and after February's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Mark Barden, whose son died in the Sandy Hook shooting, said he thought, «Here we are again, this time, another time, with a room full of people... who are just now starting this journey after another horrific mass shooting.»

Donations to the National Rifle Association's political fund tripled in the days after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to reports.

State lawmakers passed no restrictions on guns after the fatal shooting of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in 2016 and the mass shooting that killed five at the Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport in 2017.

On the same programs after the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino — which, like the rampage in Florida, occurred on a Wednesday — the same words were spoken 200 times.

The movement, which is still building, and the students who continue to speak out are signs that after this mass shooting, what's considered the status quo may change.

Those words rattled some Republicans in Congress and sparked hope among gun - control advocates that, unlike after previous mass shootings, tougher regulations would be enacted this time.

Sales at Wynn's Las Vegas properties fell 1.6 %, hurt especially at the back end of the year after the mass shooting at MGM Resorts Mandalay Bay.

Less than two weeks after the worst mass school shooting in Florida history, teachers and staff returned to the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the distance.

Despite the day's developments, there was deep skepticism in Washington that anything would change because of the long history of inaction by state and federal politicians after similar mass shootings.

According to a recent NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll, the NRA's popularity with key groups took a hit after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, including among white married women, seniors and more moderate Republicans.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made this argument after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting: «I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun - related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country.