That's a mugger's choice: «You can choose to give me your wallet or you can choose to get
shot by this gun I'm holding»
Gun control is an attempt by the government to guarantee the right of an individual not to be
shot by a gun.
A comminuted fracture in your dog is typically due to a high - energy trauma, for example being hit by a car or
shot by a gun.
I really enjoy being
shot by a gun made out of bacon.
Not exact matches
Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shoot
Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part
by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed
by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand
guns and began shoot
guns and began
shooting.
Selena let the world know that she was not OK
by posting a photo of herself firing a
gun at a
shooting range with the caption «r eleasing some stress today.»
The ATF defines a machine
gun as «any weapon which
shoots, is designed to
shoot, or can be readily restored to
shoot, automatically more than one
shot without manual reloading,
by a single function of the trigger.»
Bumble is also making a $ 100,000 donation to March For Our Lives, a national rally on March 24 organized
by the Parkland
shooting survivors demanding increased
gun control and school safety measures.
Nancy Lanza was described
by friends and acquaintances after the
shooting as a
gun enthusiast.
The National
Shooting Sports Foundation strips its background checks data of applications for conceal - carry permits, typically made
by people who already own
guns, to give a better reflection of actual purchases.
The move is part of a renewed national groundswell of action to prevent further
gun violence, inspired
by the student activists who survived a recent school
shooting in Florida
The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with
gun makers after a wave of public outcry sparked
by the Florida school
shooting last week.
The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with
gun makers following public outcry sparked
by the school
shooting in Florida.
At age 11, he was accidentally
shot in the eye
by a friend's BB
gun, and had to wear corrective lenses even since.
MEC doesn't sell
guns, but has faced a petition calling on it to stop selling brands owned
by Vista Outdoor because the U.S. company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of weapon used in a recent mass
shooting in Florida.
Fourteen people died and 22 others were wounded in the
shooting attack
by a married couple who were inspired
by Islamic State militants and died in a
gun battle with police.
Last week's televised town hall on
guns and school safety has led to finger - pointing
by the father of a Florida school
shooting survivor and CNN.
From his release, both pitches look identical to batters needing to make the micro-second decisions that go into swinging, but one
shoots by them at breakneck speeds, and the other dives out of the zone while still hitting 91 mph on the
gun.
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.
«Donald Trump is trying to escape blame
by playing catchup with our kids» safety,» said Peter Ambler, executive director of Giffords, the
gun violence reform operation set up
by former Rep. Gabby Giffords, an Arizona Democrat who was
shot in the head and severely wounded in 2011.
The NRA, bolstered
by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more
guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14
shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.
Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine
guns» — defined
by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one
shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.
The only reason more people weren't
shot: Shaw reportedly rushed the gunman while he reloaded, «grabbed the
gun's barrel, pulled it away and threw it over the Waffle House counter,» suffering a gunshot wound and second - degree burns on his right hand from the weapon's barrel while disarming the shooter, later identified
by police as 29 - year - old Travis Reinking.
Gun control advocates, meanwhile, are motivated
by more abstract notions of reducing
gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass
shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies.
Last week, Laura Ingraham, Fox News» queen of snark, tweeted that David Hogg — a 17 - year - old who survived the mass
shooting in Parkland, Fla., and has been among the eloquent advocates for
gun control — «whines about» being rejected
by four universities...
Eighteen months before Nikolas Cruz
shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, staff were so worried about his fascination with
guns that they banned him from practicing
shooting skills with the JROTC, according to mental health records obtained
by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
BlackRock went public with the questions that it is asking
gun makers and sellers in the wake of the school
shooting in Parkland, Fla., an unusual step
by the world's largest asset manager.
Instead, the Parkland
shooting galvanized a movement for
gun control — led
by teenage activists, some of them classmates of the victims.
Other right - wing conspiracy theorists falsely claimed the
shooting was a staged «false flag» operation, and that the student organizers were secretly being led
by «left wing
gun control activists,» the Miami Herald reported.
said the issue raised
by the Florida
shooting is that the FBI could have prevented the
shooting and added he thought Congress «will get something done this year» on the
gun background check system.
However, there are numerous examples of leaders «making a difference» after a terrible
shooting by passing
gun control measures.
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.
But mass
shootings, we know
by now, are only a small fraction of total
gun deaths in the United States.
In just one month since the Parkland
shooting, the
gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed
by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's
gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for
gun purchases.
There's a broader issue magnified
by the intensity of reactions to the Parkland
shooting: When it comes to
gun violence, race and the unique needs of communities of color are still being overlooked in the national conversation.
They're trying to say that mass
shootings and
shootings, they don't connect, but in reality, they both happen
by a
gun.
The approach I have just outlined will result in a far better awareness building, publicity and link building campaign than you will ever get
by just listing yourself in some directories, or sending an automated
shot -
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In comparison,
gun control advocates are motivated
by more abstract notions of reducing
gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass
shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies
by engaging more actively in advocacy work, which could make the
gun control movement feel more relatable.
Since the deadly school
shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves
by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful
gun lobby.
Kevin Wozniak, a sociologist at UMass Boston, reviewed polls after the Newtown school
shooting in 2012 and found that the event coincided with a temporary spike in support for
gun control, followed
by a leveling off and return to pre-mass
shooting opinion
by the end of 2013.
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.
The walkout unfolded amid a reinvigorated national debate over
gun control and school safety, spurred in part
by student survivors of the Parkland
shooting.
Black survivors of the
shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, say that the
gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety
by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.
«I Don't Take the Easy Road»: In the wake of the Parkland
shooting, Republican Representative Brian Mast of Florida, dubbed the ultimate «good guy with a
gun»
by gun - rights supporters, began advocating for
gun control.
Has the Parkland
shooting, and the remarkable activism undertaken
by Parkland high schoolers in its aftermath, meaningfully and permanently changed the debate on
gun control?
Asked about mass
shootings more broadly, the public says
by a roughly 2 to 1 margin that they reflect problems identifying and treating people with mental health problems rather than inadequate
gun control laws.
One witness said the man, believed to be a 31 - year - old French - Tunisian, then produced a
gun before being
shot by police.
The driver, who has been identified
by law enforcement officials as Sayfullo Saipov, 29, from Uzbekistan, was
shot by police after jumping out of the vehicle with what turned out to be two fake
guns.
Maybe assault weapons should bear the same pics that cigarette packs have: «
Guns Kill» and then have a set of brutal uncensored
shots of civilian bodies
shot up
by these weapons.
Guns do save live more than we realize
by preventing
gun violence because «the other guy» may
shoot back.