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Students of the Florida school where 17 people died last week said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month and try to create a "badge of shame" for politicians who take money from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups.
Liberals increasingly are coming out of the closet, admitting that what they have wanted all along is to ban, or limit to an extreme degree, private ownership of firearms. This would require, as a starting point, repeal of the Second Amendment, which more and more liberals now admit they favor.
Teen survivors of the school shooting massacre in Florida last week are calling for a march on Washington to demand action on gun control. Student organizers of the protest told ABC News' "This Week" Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that they are determined to use protests and political action to make the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, a turning point in the national debate over gun control.
Students of the Florida school where 17 people died said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month and try to create a ''badge of shame'' for politicians who take money from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. ''We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around,'' Cameron Kasky said on CNN's ''State of the Union.'
A funny thing happened during the current national scream that Congress must do something about gun violence. A Republican lawmaker made a common-sense statement about the limits of government and the left went nuts.
Yesterday, the Czech athlete Ester Ledecka pulled off one of the most remarkable upsets in Olympic history , winning a gold medal racing in her second-best sport on skis borrowed from the great American skier Mikaela Shiffrin: As she crossed the finish line for the Olympic super-G Saturday afternoon, Ester Ledecka from the Czech Republic looked to the scoreboard, saw a massive green No. 1 next to her name and didn't believe it.
Russia Warned FBI Several Times about Boston Bomber - Threat was Ignored, It Took FBI 3 Days to Find Terrorist Brothers Chechen Islamist brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two backpack bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan was killed in a gun fight with police and ran over by his brother on April 19, 2013.
You would think that even gun-toting Second Amendment-quoting hunters and defenders of the homeland must see that the carnage has passed any sane definition of the right to bear arms. Yet, politicians fiddle as young people, concertgoers and innocent bystanders are mowed down by assault weapons that should never be used outside a military battlefield, and as many Americans have given up hope Congress will do anything on gun control legislation.
On Wednesday, St. Valentine's Day, I had just printed out an article from the CNN website headlined, "Exclusive: Gun lobbyist helped write ATF official's proposal to deregulate." Minutes later came news of gunfire at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Gun advocates in New Jersey are pushing back against calls for more gun control in the wake of this week's school shooting in Florida. Alexander P. Roubian, president of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society, pointed out Saturday that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions admitted the FBI overlooked warning signs and a confidential tip about the Stoneman Douglas High School gunman, who killed 14 students and three adults Wednesday.
Campaigners took inspiration from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to call for gun control in the wake of a school shooting that killed 1 7. The Florida placards were driven around Miami on Friday to put pressure on its Republican senator after the high school massacre this week in Florida. The signs - reading "Slaughtered in school", "And still no gun control?", "How come, Marco Rubio?" - echoed the Oscar-nominated film where a mother challenges authorities over justice for her daughter who was raped and murdered.
Campaigners took inspiration from Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to call for gun control in the wake of a school shooting that killed 17. The placards were driven around Miami on Friday to put pressure on its Republican senator after the high school massacre this week in Florida. The signs - reading "Slaughtered in school", "And still no gun control?", "How come, Marco Rubio?" - echoed the Oscar-nominated film where a mother challenges authorities over justice for her daughter who was raped and murdered.
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
For a brief moment after the Las Vegas massacre last fall, Republicans and Democrats in Congress talked about taking a rare step to tighten the nation's gun laws. Four months later, the only gun legislation that has moved in the House or Senate instead eases restrictions for gun owners.
After a mass shooting at a Florida school, comedy writer Bess Kalb made a powerful point about campaign donations with a series of tweets. The death of at least seventeen people in a mass shooting at a South Florida high school in February 2018 prompted a by now all-too-familiar ritual: the offering up of "thoughts and prayers" for victims and their loved ones, by elected officials.
A rant befitting the occasion in that she's all over the place and ultimately offers no solution. It sounds like she's building to a "grab those guns" call to arms - no doubt that's what she'd like to do - but she admits that's impossible.
It's not only that the National Rifle Association spends millions on political lobbying. It's the reported 5 million-strong membership that is reliably and effectively mobilised, and its 145-year history with voters The vast majority of Americans support gun control, and yet Congress has failed to toughen laws even in the wake of a series of mass shootings.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel says the 19-year-old suspect in the deadly school shooting, Nikolas Cruz, had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for "disciplinary reasons." But Victoria Olvera, a 17-year-old junior, says Cruz was expelled last school year after a fight with his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is pressing ahead with a massive overhaul of his department, despite growing opposition to his proposal to move hundreds of public employees out of Washington and create a new organizational map that largely ignores state boundaries. Zinke wants to divide most of the department's 70,000 employees and their responsibilities into 13 regions based on rivers and ecosystems, instead of the current map based mostly on state lines.