Sentences with phrase «stricter gun»
And a spokeswoman says Mrs. Obama's only public statement was a Wednesday tweet in which she said she's «in total awe» of the Florida students seeking stricter gun laws.
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When organizers first announced that they would bus students to the state's capital to lobby for stricter gun laws, there was only room for about 100, and the bus quickly filled up.
«I hope to accomplish getting the lawmakers to understand what we're going through, so that they can put in place stricter gun laws so that we don't ever have to go through this again.»
«Good thing I was already planning on sleeping in tomorrow,» tweeted senior Emma Gonzalez, a leader in the student movement for stricter gun control.
Students across Oregon left class Wednesday to join a call by young activists for stricter gun laws.
The incident had prompted Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi to call for stricter gun control laws.
-- NRA responds: The National Rifle Association went on the offensive in its first public response to the Stoneman Douglas massacre, pushing back against law enforcement officials, the media, gun - control advocates and the teenage survivors of the massacre who have pleaded for stricter gun laws.
Wednesday's deadly mass shooting at a high school in south Florida has brought gun control advocates out in droves on social media to once again make their case for stricter gun control, leading their ideological opponents to argue that gun control measures in and of themselves were not the issue.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, and Box CEO Aaron Levie were among some of the high - profile names who publicly expressed their sympathies for Google's video streaming subsidiary and interpreted the tragedy as yet another sign that the U.S. needs stricter gun regulations.
The students have become vocal advocates for stricter gun laws.
The Maryland shooting happened as many students in Parkland are preparing for Sunday's March for Our Lives — a massive rally in Washington, D.C., to encourage lawmakers to enact stricter gun laws.
The overwhelming majority of Florida voters polled want stricter gun laws.
Some of the survivors of the shooting have become staunch advocates for stricter gun laws including banning semiautomatic weapons like the AR - 15 rifle used in the killings.
The video urges others to text «MARCH» at 644 - 33 to join a march near them on the same day that the students of Parkland will march for stricter gun control in Washington.
A 17 - minute walkout at schools around the country on Wednesday to honor the 17 people killed at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month and call for stricter gun control laws.
Shortly before the town hall event opened, the sheriff of the Florida county torn apart by the rampage spoke to the cheering audience, drawing them to their feet as he exhorted them to press on for stricter gun controls.
Board members praised Superintendent Robert Runcie's handling of the crisis as well as the many students who have turned into activists, meeting with lawmakers in Tallahassee to call for stricter gun laws.
They have repeatedly detailed their harrowing experience to national news networks, many calling for stricter gun control laws while decrying President Donald Trump for not doing enough to protect students.
stricter gun laws won't stop these cowards from doing these things.
The «crisis actor» is a mainstay of any mass shooting false flag theory - basically, the claim is that gun control advocates send in actors to pretend to be victims in order to push for stricter gun laws.
«We just hope to protest, and just serve as an example to other schools and we just want to get stricter gun laws passed.»
A handful of commissioners floated proposals that would impose stricter gun regulations, such as a ban on assault - style weapons, following the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in which 14 students and three staff members were shot dead by 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz.
-- was timed to take place against the backdrop of the March for Our Lives demonstrations unfolding in Washington, DC, and across the country in support of stricter gun control.
Some 58 percent of those polled said stricter gun control laws would have prevented the Florida shooting.
His calls for stricter gun control measures have made him a frequent target of conservative pundits and conspiracy theorists.
Eager to influence stricter gun - control laws in the aftermath of the mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, dozens of first - time voters - to - be turned out at a Weston park on Friday afternoon to ensure their voices are...
Florida high schoolers responding to the survey were more likely than high schoolers across the nation to favor stricter gun laws — and less enthusiastic about the idea of arming teachers.
Last weekend, they took their fight for stricter gun control laws to Washington and other cities in what they called a March for Our Lives.
Despite public calls for stricter gun laws, Republican leaders have largely kept quiet since the shooting, which left 17 dead and ushered in another phase in the gun debate, prompted in large part by the activism of the young survivors.
Several Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who have advocated for stricter gun laws, have become the subject of conspiracy theories and smear campaigns.
After leaving his golf club, the motorcade took a longer way back to Mar - a-Lago, his Palm Beach home, skipping his usual route along Southern Boulevard, where thousands had gathered to call for stricter gun control.
About 66 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws, according to a recent poll released by Quinnipiac University.
Students are calling for stricter gun control laws, building on the momentum of last week's National School Walkout.
Students also plan to brandish protest signs and press lawmakers for stricter gun - control laws.
The poll found 70 percent of Floridians, including 55 percent of Republicans support stricter gun laws.
They repeated the phrase «never again,» a rallying cry used by Stoneman Douglas students to demand stricter gun control measures.
Stricter gun control won't prevent mass shootings,» junior John Hurt, 17, said.
The overwhelming majority of Florida voters polled in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre want stricter gun laws, including universal background checks for gun buyers, a higher minimum age for gun purchasers, and an outright ban on assault - style rifles.
One family from Montreal told their children how lucky they are to be from a country with stricter gun laws.
(CNN)- Survivors of the deadly shooting rampage at a Parkland, Florida, high school led thousands Saturday in a March for Our Lives on Washington, delivering their impassioned pleas for stricter gun control law to the nation.
Boone High School senior Tim McCoy is working to enact stricter gun laws in Florida after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland left 17 dead and more wounded.
The gay - straight alliance group at Gonzalez's school received the Voice for Equality award after the young adults were recognized for their efforts that called for stricter gun laws following the tragedy at their high school last month.
He has become the subject of smear campaigns and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that say either he has been «coached» by his father, a former FBI agent; or he is a «pawn» for anti-gun campaigners; or he is not a victim but a «crisis actor,» paid to travel to disaster sites to argue against stricter gun laws.
About 30,000 people are expected to attend the march in Parkland to fight for stricter gun control in the wake of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
In the NRA video, he criticized National School Walkout Day — in which students left classes to pay tribute to the 17 people killed at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School a month earlier and to demand stricter gun control laws.
A particularly low - effort hoax spreading online in March 2018 — part of a wave of attempted smear campaigns directed at survivors of a February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida who are calling for stricter gun - control legislation — has led some people to accuse one of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivors of vandalism.
Guttenberg, who has become an outspoken advocate of stricter gun law since the shooting, urged the crowd to vote out the «weak - kneed» legislators who side with the National Rifle Association.
The aspiring journalist has interviewed students himself about the shooting and has become a prominent voice seeking stricter gun control legislation.
The exhibition was initially inspired by the student activists from Parkland, Florida who are advocating for stricter gun control in the USA.
It's more an article to open up and expand thinking on the topic and not to provide any sort of concrete facts regarding stricter gun laws directly being related to equaling a better society.