Sentences with phrase «year after the mass shooting»

Millner also pointed out that the quarter came a year after a mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which led to an increase in gun sales due to worries that about potential new gun restrictions.

Sales at Wynn's Las Vegas properties fell 1.6 %, hurt especially at the back end of the year after the mass shooting at MGM Resorts Mandalay Bay.

Not exact matches

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

Two days after a mass shooting in an Orlando gay nightclub raised concerns about home - grown terrorism, a two - year - old boy visiting Disney's Grand Floridian Resort with his parents was snatched by an alligator while playing in the lagoon.

Although gun sales rose consistently during the Obama years, most of these sales were to existing owners, reacting to his appeals for more stringent laws after several mass shootings during his time in the White House.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made this argument after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting: «I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun - related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country.

He acknowledged that the House was drafting legislation similar to that proposed by the Senate that will place new limits on access to semiautomatic assault rifles, like AR - 15s, something the Florida Legislature refused to do after mass shootings killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub in 2016 and 5 at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport last year.

For black Parkland students like 17 - year - old Kai Koerber, calls to increase police presence on campus and other security measures proposed after the February mass shooting have only made them more anxious.

I think everything else follows the pattern that we've seen after every mass shooting in the country in recent years.

It's easy to feel despair when this comes only a month after the largest mass shooting in American history, and after years of similar tragedies.

Last year, after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the other three of the city's five pension funds to further divest their holdings in companies that manufacture weapons and ammunition.

Mr. Trump's message echoed his words after a mass shooting late last year in Parkland, Florida, which set off a loud political response.

The event happened at the American Civic Association, nine years after the deadly mass shooting that claimed 13 lives.

(CNN)- In remarks Tuesday touting the Obama administration's progress in addressing gun safety, Vice President Joe Biden vowed to revisit gun control legislation that failed in the U.S. Senate earlier this year, and warned legislators that the political climate shifted after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut last December.

Last year's show marked the first in nearly two decades after several were cancelled due to mass shootings in Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Immediately after a 19 - year - old shot and killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at a Florida high school on Valentine's Day, people leaped to explain what had caused the latest mass slaughter.

Today, nearly 20 years after the Columbine shooting (and many mass school shootings later), we can ask: Does more security actually make schools safer?

After Florida's third mass shooting in two years took place at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland...

«I Want To Live 100 Hundred Years: After Agreement» is an emotional, personal reflection on today's mass - shootings, and is a memorial for those innocent...

When Google (GOOGL) shared a conspiracy theory in its search results after a mass shooting last year in Texas, the company said it would «continue to look at ways to improve.»

The arrest comes days after another 19 - year - old man, Nikolas Cruz, was arrested in connection with a mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Surely the president was actually referring to Congress — after all these years of mass shootings — for failing to do anything about gun control.

The students are survivors of a mass shooting at the Parkland, Florida, school Wednesday that left 17 people dead and dozens of others wounded after a 19 - year - old walked into the school and opened fire.

In the least surprising news ever, Fox News is deciding to stick with Laura Ingraham after she publicly mocked 17 year old survivor of the Florida high school mass shooting in Parkland, David Hogg.

A bill in Alaska was introduced last year after Esteban Santiago, then an Anchorage resident, was arrested on federal charges he killed five people and injured six others in the Jan. 6, 2017, mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport.

The numbers peaked after the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.: 183 gun confiscation orders were issued in the following year.

After last week's mass gun murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 were killed and 14 injured by one teenager bearing a military - grade assault rifle, Trump and his supporters have avoided discussing much - needed gun legislation in a country where 33,000 people are shot and killed every year, suggesting instead that new hospitals be opened to care for the mentally ill.