Sentences with phrase «weeks after the massacre»

In the weeks after the massacre in Parkland, Democratic governors in the Northeast have created a gun task force, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and other Republican lawmakers have called for raising the minimum age for purchasing rifles to 21.

MPD spokeswoman Karimah Bilal told us that the permit application for the March for Our Lives rally was received on 21 February 2018, one week after the massacre.

Rubio wasn't the only one who got a hostile reaction from the South Floridians streamed into the BB&T Center in Sunrise for the nationally televised town hall meeting a week after the massacre of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

South Floridians streamed into the BB&T Center in Sunrise for a nationally televised town hall meeting a week after the massacre of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

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She also is no stranger to the gun debate, creating the Committee Against Gun Violence five years ago, weeks after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Not exact matches

Google searches for «gun control» have remained elevated a week after the Parkland, Florida, massacre.

Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.

The average amount of time spent discussing gun control on the three major cable networks two weeks after the shooting is higher post-Parkland than it was after any other major recent shooting, including the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.

The online furor comes a day after the NRA's leaders attacked the media and Democrats, claiming the fallout from last week's Florida high school massacre was being politicized.

In the weeks after former student Nikolas Cruz's Valentine's Day massacre, Runcie was hailed for his calm leadership and outspoken embrace of gun reform and the #NeverAgain movement.

Coming one week after the videotaped beheadings of 21 Christians in Libya, the incident raises concern of whether a prisoner swap or another propaganda - driven massacre is in the making.

So just a couple of weeks after arriving n England Mavropanos made his U23 debut for the Gunners against Man United last night, and not only did we massacre them 4 - 0 but he helped keep a clean sheet, not that the United reserves game them too many problems.

On August 28, 2011, two weeks after his 18th birthday, the newly signed Ox, who came over from Southampton for # 12 million, was trotted out for his Arsenal debut in the 62nd minute of an 8 - 2 massacre against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

«At the end of the 2016 legislative session and after last week's massacre in Orlando, it is important that voters know where their legislators stand on gun safety.

State lawmakers returned Tuesday to Albany after a week - long break and a renewed national debate over gun control following a massacre at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

NEW YORK, NY — New York City students will go through random security screenings and a refresher on how to handle violent threats after last week's massacre at a Florida high school, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Just weeks after the GOP - led Senate struck down gun control legislation following the Orlando massacre, the Republican Party is now setting its sights on smut.

Two weeks after the Orlando massacre, and just days after Congressman John Lewis's sit - in on the House floor highlighting Congressional inaction on gun safety, hundreds of GAGers marched in the NYC Pride Parade, 49 of them shrouded in white veils and carrying signs with the names and faces of each Orlando victim.

«At the end of the 2016 legislative session and after last week's massacre in Orlando, it is important that voters know where their legislators stand on gun safety,» NYAGV director Leah Gunn Barrett said in releasing the ratings.

After the massacre this week in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that state's attorney general told Fox News gun control laws will not prevent mass shootings.

More than 18 months after the Columbine High School massacre, Colorado voters strongly approved a ballot measure last week to make it harder for criminals to buy firearms at gun shows.

Teachers Fund Reviewing Firearm Holdings The nation's largest teachers» pension fund announced Tuesday that it was reviewing its firearms holdings after determining that its investment in a gun maker was linked to one of the weapons used in last week's Connecticut school massacre.

By the way, looks like Hilton has overtaken Club Carlson by a huge margin after last week's massacre.

Now that Greenpeace has abandoned the field after ineffectively «bearing witness» for a few weeks (belligerently refusing to cooperate with Paul Watson, one of its founders), and now that they have their footage with which to sucker another 10 million dollars in contributions from their slick campaigns, it is left to the poorly funded Sea Shepherd to continue the task of blockading the Nisshin Maru, physically preventing them from carrying out their blatant, murderous massacre.

Students try to keep their emotions in check as they head back to school two weeks after 17 students and teachers were killed in a Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school (Feb 28) AP

Video footage has surfaced of Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer who resigned after Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said he failed to confront the alleged gunman in last week's school massacre.

A week after the last victim of February's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was released from the hospital, Anthony Borges made it known in a press conference Friday he and his family were not pleased with several circumstances around the massacre.

For the first week after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel was the commanding image and voice of authority, detailing the tragedy and grieving with the community.

Planning for the rally (and 800 - plus others worldwide) began the week after a Feb. 14 school massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman killed 14 students and three educators.

Deputy Scot Peterson resigned following his suspension Thursday, after being accused of doing nothing to stop last week's massacre.