Sentences with phrase «wake of the shooting»

In the immediate wake of the shooting, president Trump made promises about gun control, including proposals to raise the age - limit to purchase guns and to ban bump stocks, an accessory that allows guns to be fired more quickly.

In the wake of the shooting of two journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, in Roanoke, Virginia, many people on Twitter and Facebook have called for an end to autoplay.

Anonymous has successfully used this method in the past for shutting down the computer networks of companies or organizations it deems fit for attack, from The Church of Scientology to the municipal computer system of Ferguson, Missouri (in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown).

March for Our Lives is not the only group that has planned a national walk - out in the wake of the shooting in Florida.

High - profile technology executives have called for increased gun control in the wake of the shooting at YouTube's headquarters that left at least three people injured and the suspect shooter dead.

Students like Emma Gonzalez and Cameron Kasky, who have been some of the most vocal in the wake of the shooting, seem to be taking the disinformation in stride.

Here's a list of the firms that have discontinued their partnerships with the NRA in the wake of the shooting:

In Dallas, where five police officers were murdered in the wake of the shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, police Chief David Brown told reporters on July 11 that community policing was the best way to deter crime and protect officers.

Many of the high schoolers are organizing in the wake of the shooting at their school on Feb. 14 that left 17 dead.

Schulman goes on to note that JetBlue offered 30 days of free flights to the victims» families (to and from Florida) in the wake of the shooting.

That activism made them prime targets for the right - wing smear machine: a collection of Fox News hosts, conservative pundits, conspiracy theorists, Twitter provocateurs, and YouTube commentators who piled on the teens in the wake of the shooting.

The survey — conducted in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead — also finds that significantly more Americans believe mass shootings in the United States are due more to mental health issues than inadequate gun laws.

On Friday evening, President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, made an unannounced visit to meet with law enforcement officials and medical workers who helped in the wake of the shooting.

The change, effective March 26, comes in the wake of a shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

The students appeared on multiple Sunday morning political shows to discuss their views and goals in the wake of the shooting and made clear they are going to target lawmakers up for election this year who they view as standing against their cause.

The gun - control group Giffords has put out its annual scorecard, ranking states on their gun laws as the nation is again embroiled in debate about gun policy in the wake of a shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school on Valentine's Day.

And in the wake of a shooting that has rocked America — where children were gunned down in cold blood — he appears to be either incapable of or unwilling to exercise the sort of leadership that Howard once did.

Multiple companies are cutting ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida that left 17 people dead.

In the wake of the shooting, students are demanding a more meaningful conversation on gun regulation, Robert Runcie, superintendent of the Broward County schools acknowledged at a news conference Thursday.

As we noted earlier, Hogg has become a vocal advocate for gun reform in the wake of the shooting.

In the wake of the shooting, President Donald Trump tweeted «warmest condolences and sympathies» to the victims.

Parker relied on having a high volume of shots at Duke — he ranked 41st among all Division I players by taking 32.3 percent of Duke's shots while he was on the floor — but the Blue Devils succeeded more often in the wake of his shot - taking rather than suffered.

The last major piece of gun control legislation approved by New York was the 2013 SAFE Act, a controversial package of measures backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the wake of a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

Mental illness has been a big focus in the wake of the shooting.

In the wake of the shooting, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg again called for stricter gun laws and challenged Obama and Romney to make the issue a key part of their campaign.

President Donald Trump told governors that he will make school safety a top priority in the wake of the shooting in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month that took the lives of 17 people.

The fast - growing group of companies that sell school safety equipment have ramped up their marketing to school safety officials in the wake of the shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, Fla., but schools are getting little guidance in this area from the federal government.

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with law enforcement at the Broward County Sheriff's Office in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., February 16, 2018.

LaPierre in a speech at the annual CPAC conference knocked gun control efforts in the wake of the shooting, criticizing Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and others as «intellectual elites» who part of a «tidal wave of new European - style socialists.»

The candidates halted campaigning yesterday to stand united in the wake of the shooting, but commentators were already drawing attention to President Sarkozy's recent comments on immigration, arguing that he helped create a climate of hostility to people of different races.

The White House was briefly placed on lockdown in the wake of the shooting, which took place near 17th and E streets around 3:06 p.m.

In the wake of a shooting at a Maryland high school earlier this week where a teenager, Jaelynn Willey, was killed, attendees were even more determined.

The NYPD ordered its officers to change tactics in the wake of the shooting in Baton Rouge Sunday that left three cops dead and three wounded.

State lawmakers in recent days have been pushing a variety of bills meant to bolster — and fund — school safety in New York in the wake of a shooting at a Florida high school this month that killed 17 people.

HARLEM — The tough tactics used by police unions to criticize Mayor Bill de Blasio in the wake of the shooting deaths of two NYPD officers is backfiring, according to a new poll.

The NYPD ordered its officers to change tactics in the wake of the shooting in Baton Rouge.

The discussion also comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes for federal action on gun control in the wake of the shooting death of administration lawyer Carey Gabay and the mass shooting this month at an Oregon community college.

In the wake of the shooting, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas have mobilized, calling on the legislature to take greater action to prevent school and mass shootings.

In the wake of the shooting at an gay nightclub in Florida, North Carolina Senate candidate Deborah Ross, a Democrat running against incumbent Republican Sen. Richard M. Burr, called for «commonsense» gun control measures, the Salisbury Post reported.

An upstate New York lawmaker is calling for a new way to fund school security in the wake of the shooting that killed 17 in Parkland, Florida.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in the wake of the shootings the city's five police unions were «standing down» until the funerals for Liu and Ramos were over.

Governor Andrew Cuomo issued the following statement in the wake of the shooting of four suburban Rochester firefighters Monday morning, two of them fatally.

Schools across New York State dealt with credible and non-credible threats on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17.

A black Republican Senate hopeful denounced police discrimination against African Americans on Friday while calling for political unity and respect for law enforcement in the wake of shootings in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and Dallas.

Governor Cuomo is pledging to work for gun control in the wake of the shooting at the elementary school in Newtown Connecticut, calling it «yet another senseless and horrific act of violence involving guns.»

At around 7:45 p.m., Mayor de Blasio and Police Comissioner Bill Bratton addressed the media at Woodhull, where hundreds of cops gathered in the wake of the shooting.

Cuomo, in the wake of the shooting, has repeatedly called on federal lawmakers to strengthen the nation's gun laws — even suggesting that Democrats in Congress force a government shutdown to pressure reluctant lawmakers.

At the panels» first hearing in March, its Democratic members moved unsuccessfully to quash these subpoenas, citing safety concerns in the wake of a shooting that killed three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic last fall.

In the wake of the shootings in Aurora, Colo., a couple of weeks ago, The Hollywood Reporter ran a piece by Peter Bogdanovich lamenting whatever part he may have had in desensitizing Americans to violence.