Sentences with phrase «worst mass shooting»

Original post As details emerge about Omar Mateen, the man authorities have identified as the attacker behind the worst mass shooting in United States history, it's impossible not to be shaken by the dark resonance with a scenario President Obama laid out earlier this month in responding to a gun owner who criticized his and Hillary Clinton's positions on gun control during a PBS town - hall - style event.

The attack in which a gunman opened fire at the packed nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is the worst mass shooting in US history.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy waged a filibuster in an attempt to force a vote on gun control legislation three days after 49 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

A gunman wielding an assault - type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people in the worst mass shooting in American history before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said.

It was the worst mass shooting in American history.

The death toll from the attack — the worst mass shooting in U.S. history — has risen to at least 59, with 527 injured.

It probably would've been the worst mass shooting in congressional history because our members were huddling in a dugout unprotected with their kids,» Collins said.

Just a surprise he never heard of what sadly is the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 406 others were injured after a gunman opened fire on an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the suspect in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history a «sick» and «demented man.»

«A real leader would have gotten Congress to pass a ban on bump stocks after the horror of Las Vegas, the worst mass shooting in modern American history,» Ambler said.

It was the worst mass shooting in Australia's history.

Wounded Knee was the worst mass shooting in US history.

By the time Bryant was caught a day later, 35 people were dead and 23 wounded in what became the worst mass shooting in Australian history — one whose impact is felt even today.

Many Americans responded to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history with a basic desire to do something.

Lane's death became an instant cable news sensation, cutting into coverage of another tragedy in the area — the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at Pulse nightclub, where a gunman killed 49 and injured 53.

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.

This suggests that, yes, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are right to insist on the phrase «radical Islamic terrorism» to refer to the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States.

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

Just over four months to the election, and facing pressure from their Democratic opponents, most Republican Senate incumbents opted for consistency despite the political frenzy days after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

June saw the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, leaving 49 victims dead and more than 50 injured.

His last media briefing about the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was Oct. 13, following several days of shifting timelines and accounts.

After one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — 20 children and seven adults killed, not including the gunman — polls show that a slight majority of Americans favor restrictions on guns.

The carnage at Stoneman Douglas High School shared all of the horror of America's worst mass shootings.

Among the suspects on the list of the country's 10 worst mass shootings, Cruz is alone in one thing: He was taken alive.

Cuomo says most of the worst mass shootings in the nation's history involved gunmen with a record of violence against women or threatening violence against women, including those committed this year at a country music concert in Las Vegas and inside a Texas church.

The carnage at Stoneman Douglas High School shared all of the horror of America's worst mass shootings.

Not exact matches

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

Less than two weeks after the worst mass school shooting in Florida history, teachers and staff returned to the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the distance.

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

The shock and heartbreak over the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have inspired Westboro Baptist Church to do what they do worst: jettison any semblance of humanity and decency by picketing the funerals of the victims.

It's gotten so bad that the common local response to the worst shooting rampage in Roseburg, Oregon's history (America's latest mass shooting du jour) is to get more guns and not to tighten restrictions on gun sales, to the point that some residents didn't even want President Obama to come to their state.

Probably worst of all, Faso's vote in favor of gutting New York's own laws flies directly in the face of both the visceral fear and anger demonstrated in the wake of the Florida mass shooting and of what 83 percent of gun - owning Republicans say they want.

LONG ISLAND, NY — The tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, carried out by 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, stands as one of the worst school mass shootings in history.

Reaction to Van Blarcum's statement was swift and exposed the yawning chasm between those who believe that the solution to mass shootings is stricter gun control and those who believe, as the NRA's Wayne LaPierre stated in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

Impressively, there were no signs of the wayward rear, overwhelmed brakes and badly scrubbed front tyres that often mark out a hard - worked photographer's car loaded up with the huge mass of camera gear that has to be carried to shoots.

Using a unique blend of historical archival footage, interviews and rotoscope animation, Tower reveals the action - packed, untold stories of the witnesses, heroes, and survivors of America's first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

The nation's mass - shooting problem seems to be getting worse.