Sentences with phrase «when gun shootings»

«At a time when gun shootings are on the increase, to actually cut back on the NICS system system is appalling,» New York's senior senator said.

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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 shootGuns 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 shootguns and began shooting.

Later on in the discussion, Zeif spoke up again when Trump asked the group to provide suggestions for ways to prevent school shootings and argued that the country could look to states like Maryland, which have stricter, and more effective, gun laws.

The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Though the president surprised many when he suggested raising the age during a meeting following the Parkland, Fla. shooting that left 17 dead, this official plan from the administration lines up more closely with the views of the gun lobby, which spent more than $ 30 million on Trump's presidential campaign.

Defense lawyers said the shooting was an accident that happened when Garcia Zarate, who had a history of nonviolent drug crimes, found the gun wrapped in a T - shirt or cloth under his seat on the pier just seconds before it discharged in his hands.

The moratorium episode — the closest that Florida's Democratic gun - control proponents have come to success after a Feb. 14 shooting rampage, at a high school in Parkland, left 17 people dead — illustrates why it is so difficult to pass firearm restrictions in the State Legislature: When it comes to backing a significant change, even a popular one, the votes just aren't there.

Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg says his teachers are «very understanding» when he skips school for gun control rallies.

But when he used one to allegedly shoot at an acquaintance, he was arrested and the Broward Sheriff's Office successfully sought to revoke his gun rights.

Cruz said he'd grown angry when another friend shot him in the ribs with a pellet gun in early January, Halem said.

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.

«After a mass shooting at a school, you don't have to be the sharpest tack in the box to understand when another student posts a photo of an assault weapon why school security personnel and police might ask questions,» tweeted Pittman, who said he owns two guns but no assault rifles.

President Donald Trump made headlines Monday when he asserted that he would have rushed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to help during the school shooting earlier this month that killed 17 people — even if he didn't have a gun.

when in ancient history could man drop an atom bomb or shoot guns.

Maybe He decides it's time for your life to end when that madman shoots you with a gun.

No, but it will put more guns in the hands of people who value their freedom and will only shoot another when life is in jeopardy.

week after week... many kids have been caught in the cross fire for just being outside when the gangs or who ever start shooting... angry, out of work people, with guns, and no money, mean big problems..

when pastor Darling says «In fairness to gun enthusiasts, no reasonable observer could pin the blame for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting solely on the lack of effective gun laws.»

So you take the gun you keep in the glove compartment of your car and shoot your brother, at first just to get him to stop» shooting at the sky and then shooting him in the leg» but when that proves ineffective, you shoot to kill.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

As they passed by the gun shop here in my neighborhood, the child asked, «Why is there a gun shop here when there aren't any animals to shoot?»

It is easier for human sin to take the form of a violent shot when you can walk through my neighborhood of North Lawndale on the Westside of Chicago and buy a gun in about 15 minutes.

Plus, guns have other uses, such as hunting to feed your family (my father did so when I was growing up), or shooting rabbits that are eating the vegetables in your vegetable garden, and so on.

It all started when she retweeted a CNN headline about a 4 - year - old who fatally shot his father, adding «Please practice gun safety.

When the guy asks if he's really gonna eat a ham sandwich, Ice loses his cool and shouts, «Pork is not gonna kill me unless they figure a way to shoot it out of a fucking gun.

Special early seasons, when the deer are not yet panicked by the crackle of constant gunfire, plus the added safety factor that a hunter has to get pretty close to what he is shooting at to be able to kill it, are drawing thousands of former gun hunters to the weapon of Robin Hood.

He said that my dad wasn't a good shot or anything, but what my dad did, when he went to war, he traded his weapon for a tank machine gun.

Particularly in the early days of planes - with - guns, when ammunition was scarce, technology was new, and there was a very real chance that a pilot might end up shooting off his own propeller.

We just have to come up with some good excuses why we can't travel and stick to our guns, then when they finally show up at the AT&T Center we just shoot the lights out and play D. Problem solved.

He was on top of a Humvee leading the scout platoon, returning fire with a.50 - cal machine gun when he was shot in the head.

Coughlin: When Iwas younger it was a lot cooler — I learned how to shoot a gun.

Topal was in his car returning home when his vehicle was shot at however, the gun attack did not prove to be fatal as the bullet proof glass protected the Turkish international from serious injury.

A 9 - year - old girl accidentally shot an instructor at a gun range this week, when she lost control of the Uzi she was learning to fire.

The man was in an argument with another man when the other man took out a gun and started shooting at him as the man tried to run across the street to escape the gunfire, Alfaro said.

How are we supposed to be more concerned about «offending» another parent when we read stories about children like Mykah Jackson, a 9 - year - old shot and killed by another child on Monday after they were playing with a gun they found in his father's apartment?

A bipolar Brooklyn man waving a metal object at passersby was fatally shot by police when cops responding to 911 calls for a man with a gun said he «took a two - handed shooting stance» and pointed at them.

The gun control side has developed a well - financed infrastructure that did not exist when schoolchildren were fatally shot at Sandy Hook.

And when asked about the Las Vegas shooting at an appearance in Albany on Monday, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand said Congress should consider banning assault weapons, expanding background checks and cracking down on gun trafficking.

Since I'm from Texas and shot my first gun (no doubt bigger than I was) when I was about four years old, I'm fine with the firepower.

In a statement, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, also addressed Wednesday's mass shooting, saying that the fatal incident is «another painful and infuriating reminder of the inaction in Washington,» when it comes to gun safety laws.

A protester left a gun at a meeting she held in 2009 where she discussed the health - care bill, and when it was voted on, someone shot a bullet through the glass door of her district office.

«At a time when our country is mourning the loss of 17 lives in a mass shooting, it is profoundly disappointing that a storied Coney Island institution, with a long history of being a strong civic and community partner, is choosing to host a National Rifle Association fundraising event that includes raffle giveaways of guns.

When an assault weapon is used in a shooting, the number of victims who are killed increases by 63 percent, according to Nadler, who said there have been more than 8,000 incidents of gun violence in the U.S. so far in 2018.

The Florida shooting will be another flashpoint for gun - control activists when the legislature returns to Albany Feb. 28 and potentially in the fall elections.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is reviewing the case of a Putnam County man who died Nov. 30 when he was shot by Carmel, Putnam County, police with a stun gun.

Did she work for that Judge when Tradd Schneiderman was working as a deputy lawman and shooting his gun?

In 2012, that strategy brought us within one vote of a majority in the County Legislature, but in 2014 we lost ground when Albany passed the SAFE ACT after the shooting in Sandy Hook and gun control became the most powerful «single issue» in upstate NY.

Officer Peter Liang shot Gurley when his gun accidentally went off in a dark stairwell, officials said.

Constance Malcolm is the mother of Ramarley Graham, who was unarmed when he was shot by a police officer who said he who thought Graham was reaching for a gun.