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Stoneman Douglas High School shooting On February 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing seventeen students and staff members and injuring seventeen others. Witnesses identified former student Nikolas Cruz as the assailant, and he was arrested in Coral Springs by the Broward County Sheriff's Office shortly after he escaped the scene; Cruz had purchased food at Walmart and McDonald's restaurants after leaving the scene of the shooting. Cruz confessed to being the perpetrator, and he was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. Police and
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Stoneman Douglas High School shooting On February 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing seventeen students and staff members and injuring seventeen others. Witnesses identified former student Nikolas Cruz as the assailant, and he was arrested in Coral Springs by the Broward County Sheriff's Office shortly after he escaped the scene; Cruz had purchased food at Walmart and McDonald's restaurants after leaving the scene of the shooting. Cruz confessed to being the perpetrator, and he was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. Police and
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wore sashes that were emblazoned with #MSDStrong, or decorated their caps with references to the Never Again movement, while some dedicated their caps to their classmates. Families of the victims also made statements, with the mother of Joaquin Oliver accepting his diploma wearing a shirt saying "This should be my son". Talk show host Jimmy Fallon made a surprise appearance and gave a commencement speech to the graduating class, thanking them for their courage and bravery. Stoneman Douglas High School shooting On February 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing seventeen
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the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens... It did not take long to realize that MAIG's agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens. The NRA has said that MAIG has used mayor's names without permission or were otherwise misidentified. Following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018, Everytown stated that the shooting was the 18th school shooting of the year, a statistic the "Washington Post" called "flat wrong". The instance Everytown
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boys left two gym bags, each containing a 20-pound propane bomb, inside the school cafeteria. When these devices failed to detonate, Harris and Klebold launched a shooting attack against their classmates. It was the deadliest attack ever perpetrated at an American high school until the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. Harris was responsible for eight of the thirteen confirmed deaths (Rachel Scott, Daniel Rohrbough, a teacher identified as Dave Sanders, Steve Curnow, Cassie Bernall, Isaiah Shoels, Kelly Fleming, and Daniel Mauser), while Klebold was responsible for the remaining five (Kyle Velasquez, Matthew Kechter, Lauren Townsend, John
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Teenlink reporter for the "Sun Sentinel". He graduated on June 3, 2018, from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Hogg has been accepted to several universities including the University of California, Irvine, but has not yet decided which university he will attend. He plans to take a year off before starting college to work on the 2018 mid-term elections. On February 14, 2018, while a senior at Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, Hogg was on campus when a 19-year-old former student at the high school started shooting with a semi-automatic rifle after pulling the fire alarm. Hogg, who was in his
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environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas. The school opened in 1990, the year of her centennial with students in grades 9 through 11, most of whom transferred from nearby schools Coral Springs High School and J. P. Taravella High School. The first senior class graduated in 1992. On February 14, 2018, a shooting occurred at the campus, leaving 17 dead and over 15 more wounded. The shooter, a former student, was apprehended. Authorities have charged former student Nikolas Cruz with first-degree murder in response, and legal proceedings were ongoing as of September 2018. Students from Stoneman Douglas were instrumental in changing Florida
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as airports, stadiums, and embassies. Pollack raised that the September 11 attacks happened once and that measures were put in place to prevent it from ever happening again, also stating "There should have been one school shooting, and we should have fixed it!" On April 20, 2018, Pollack launched his nonprofit organization Americans for Children's Lives and School Safety (CLASS). Andrew Pollack Andrew Scot Pollack is an American school safety activist. His 18-year-old daughter Meadow Pollack was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. Pollack is credited with helping to pass the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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(ACLU) suggests that SRO programs should be designed to provide a different response for disciplinary matters as opposed to criminal offenses that occur on school grounds. This recommendation was intended to ensure that juveniles were not receiving disparate treatment based upon the presence of a law enforcement officer within their school. The February 14, 2018 shooting which killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School brought renewed attention to the topic of police in schools. The police officer assigned to the school resigned shortly after the shooting under criticism of not entering the school building while the student was shooting.
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Andrew Pollack Andrew Scot Pollack is an American school safety activist. His 18-year-old daughter Meadow Pollack was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. Pollack is credited with helping to pass the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act" (Florida Senate Bill: 7026). He has met with President Donald Trump and his cabinet, Florida governor Rick Scott, and many lawmakers. Pollack is actively fighting to increase more federal funding to increase school security in every school across the nation. He believes that bulletproof glass, metal detectors, enhanced door lock systems, ID checkpoints, and "school
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Ryan Petty Ryan Petty is an American school safety activist. His 14-year-old daughter Alaina Petty was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. Petty is credited with helping to pass the "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act" Florida Senate Bill 7026 just 3 weeks after his daughter Alaina was murdered. At the federal level, Petty worked with Senators Orrin Hatch, Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson to pass the STOP School Violence Act and the Fix NICS Act of 2017. He has met frequently with Florida governor Rick Scott, and many federal lawmakers. Ryan
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Murphy and fellow U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the bipartisan Fix NICS Act to ensure criminal records are submitted to the federal background check system. Following the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, Murphy made an impassioned call for action in the Senate stating that "this happens nowhere else other than the United States of America, this epidemic of mass slaughter, this scourge of school shooting after school shooting. It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. We
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Fred Guttenberg Fred Guttenberg is an American activist against gun violence. His 14-year-old daughter Jaime Guttenberg was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. His son, also a student at the school, ran from the shooting to meet him at a nearby store. He learned about his daughter's death from a friend who is a Coral Springs SWAT officer. Jessica McBride, for the website "Heavy" described him as "one of the strongest voices for changes to gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting." The day after the shooting, Guttenberg spoke out for gun
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Fred Guttenberg Fred Guttenberg is an American activist against gun violence. His 14-year-old daughter Jaime Guttenberg was killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. His son, also a student at the school, ran from the shooting to meet him at a nearby store. He learned about his daughter's death from a friend who is a Coral Springs SWAT officer. Jessica McBride, for the website "Heavy" described him as "one of the strongest voices for changes to gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting." The day after the shooting, Guttenberg spoke out for gun
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David Hogg (activist) David Miles Hogg (born April 12, 2000) is an American author and student who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018 and afterward became a gun control advocate and an activist against gun violence in the United States. He is one of twenty founding members of Never Again MSD, a gun control advocacy group led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) students. In conjunction with his gun control advocacy, he has helped lead several high-profile protests, marches, and boycotts. He has also been a target and scapegoat of several conspiracy theories and
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Be Our Reply” for orchestra and chorus inspired by the Bernstein quote. In response to the Boston Marathon bombing, Walnut Hill School for the Arts performed a production of “Sleeping Beauty”, and elaborated on Bernstein’s words: “One of the most natural ways we can respond is by continuing to make and share art.” On June 1, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School alumni, students, musicians and composers performed a concert called: “Our Reply” in tribute to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. Tribute to John F. Kennedy Tribute to John F. Kennedy is an address given
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the February 14, 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. At the time of the shooting, Kashuv was 16 years old, attending his junior year. Three weeks after the shooting, Kashuv spoke with first lady Melania Trump about a smart phone app he planned to develop which enables troubled teens to connect with fellow students to discuss emotional or mental problems. In April, Kashuv said he was questioned by a Broward County officer and a school security officer after he posted a photo of himself posing with an AR-15 rifle, on his Twitter account. In November, Kashuv petitioned Trump to award
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Never Again MSD Never Again MSD is an American student-led political action committee for gun control that advocates for tighter regulations to prevent gun violence. The organization, also known by the Twitter hashtags #NeverAgain, and #EnoughIsEnough, was formed by a group of twenty students attending the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the aftermath of the shooting on February 14, 2018, in which seventeen students and staff members were killed by a 19-year-old former student armed with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle. The organization started on social media as a movement "for survivors of the Stoneman Douglas Shooting, by survivors
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false claims that the shooting did not happen or was staged by "crisis actors". In one of the claims, Benjamin A. Kelly, a district secretary for Republican State Representative Shawn Harrison, sent an email to the "Tampa Bay Times" stating that the children in the picture were not students at the school. The children who were interviewed by CNN were actually students at Stoneman Douglas High School. As a result of the backlash, Kelly was fired hours later. Former Republican congressman and CNN contributor Jack Kingston suggested student demonstrators were paid by billionaire George Soros or were supported by members
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laws in the United States. After the Charleston church shooting, U.S. President Barack Obama said, "At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn't happen in other places with this kind of frequency." After the December 2015 San Bernardino attack, Obama renewed his call for reforming gun-safety laws and also said that the frequency of mass shootings in the United States has "no parallel in the world". After the February 2018 attack at Florida's Parkland school shooting at Stoneman Douglas
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training, and similar safety measures. Lawmakers made it clear it was in response to the shooting and the public outcry. However students from the Stoneman Douglas High School who were active in calling for stricter gun control (not just safety measures) felt this was passed because lawmakers "pass something very easy and simple that everyone can get behind. But that's because it doesn't do anything." Following the shooting, a boycott emerged against the U.S. gun rights advocacy group National Rifle Association (NRA) and its business affiliates. Calls for companies to sever their ties to the NRA were heeded when several
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included an attempted bombing. Four hours after the attack, the perpetrators were killed by police in a shootout that left two officers injured. Continuing the increase in high-profile mass school shootings seen in the late 1990s and 2000s, additional school shootings rocked the country in the 2010s, the deadliest of which were the Oikos University shooting (2012), the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (2012), the Isla Vista killings (2014), the Umpqua Community College shooting (2015), the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (2018), and the Santa Fe High School shooting (2018). These shootings, particularly the Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas shootings,
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line did not follow protocol when the information was not forwarded to the Miami Field Office, where investigative steps would have been taken. The FBI opened a probe into the tip line's operations. The lack of response by Israel and other members of the Broward Country sheriff's department to the numerous red flags and warnings about Cruz has been the subject of much scrutiny. In the days following the shooting, calls for Israel's resignation intensified as more information that alluded to the department's inaction was revealed. Since the shooting, Israel has declined to resign and refused to take responsibility for
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inspiration. At least 68 schools that experienced a school shooting employed a police officer or security guard; in all but a few, the shooting ended before any intercession. Security guards or resource officers were present during four of the five school shooting incidents with the highest number of dead or injured: the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the 2018 Marshall County High School shooting in Kentucky, and the 2001 Santana High School shooting in California. There were 11 firearm-related events that occurred at a school or campus in the first 23
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDH) is a four-year, comprehensive, U.S. public high school located in Parkland, Florida. It is a part of the Broward County Public School district, and it is the only public high school in Parkland, serving almost all of the limits of that city as well as a section of Coral Springs. In 2018, the school became the scene of a deadly mass shooting carried out by a 19-year-old former student. The school is named after the writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was named after the Everglades
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as Trump bragging and talking about himself amid tragedy that did not concern him. President Trump offered his prayers and condolences to the victims' families, writing, "no child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school". In a televised address, he mentioned school safety and mental health issues. Florida Governor Rick Scott ordered that flags at state buildings be flown at half-staff, and Trump later ordered flags be flown at half-staff for the entire country. Two days after the shooting, Trump and his wife Melania visited Broward Health North, a hospital where eight of the shooting
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Santa Fe High School shooting A school shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, United States, in the Houston metropolitan area, on May 18, 2018. Ten people – eight students and two teachers – were fatally shot and thirteen others were wounded. The suspected shooter was taken into custody and later identified by police as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a student at the school. The shooting is the second-deadliest school shooting in the United States in 2018, after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February resulted in 17 deaths and 17 injuries. The shooter began firing a
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Ruben Douglas Ruben Enrique Douglas (born October 30, 1979) is a Panamanian-American professional basketball player. He is a 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 210 lb (95 kg) point guard-shooting guard. Douglas played high school basketball at Bellarmine-Jefferson High School in Burbank, California. He is ranked as one of the most prolific high school scorers in California state history. After high school, Douglas played college basketball at the University of Arizona with the Arizona Wildcats in the 1998-99 season. Douglas led the NCAA in scoring with a 28.0 points per game average during the 2002-03 season as a senior year
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date, he did not show up for the hearing. Prior to the court date, the restraining order had been lifted. He divorced C.C. four years later and quickly remarried. On July 5, 2006, Heidik was arrested in Douglas County, Georgia, on charges of shooting a puppy dog with an arrow. When police came to his house, he tried to flee in his car, but was quickly apprehended. Brian Heidik Brian A. Heidik is an American actor best known for winning the reality TV competition show, "". Heidik attended Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, and played quarterback on the high
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The group held a rally on in Fort Lauderdale that was attended by hundreds of supporters. Since the shooting, several more rallies have been planned to take place with the focus on legislative action. The Women's March Network organized a school walkout that took place on . A series of demonstrations called "March for Our Lives" on included a march in Washington, D.C. On , the anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, all-day walkouts were planned for teacher groups by educators Diane Ravitch and David Berliner, as well as student groups. On , dozens of Stoneman Douglas High School
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School shooting in 2012 and the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 being false flag operations engineered by gun control advocates. In particular, he has stated that "no one died" in Sandy Hook and that Stoneman Douglas survivor David Hogg was a crisis actor. Claims made in support of these theories have been proven false. In March 2018, six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting. In January 2013,
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of the students who experienced school shootings were African American although African American students were 16.6% of the school population. Schools in at least 36 states and the District of Columbia have experienced a shooting. Many school shootings in the United States result in one non-fatal injury. The type of firearm most commonly used in school shootings in the United States is the handgun. The three most lethal school shootings, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, and the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, accounted for 43%
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a bill that would end the shutdown, stressing that an agreement needed to be made and that "Like most of those I represent, I remain opposed to Obamacare, but a government shutdown is absolutely unacceptable." In March 2018, in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Davis said the shooting could have been prevented if the perpetrator had been charged with a felony for bringing a gun to school earlier. Davis said he believed more funding should be directed to mental health programs and that loopholes in background checks should be closed, but that he did not see
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prosecutors have not yet offered a motive and are investigating "a pattern of disciplinary issues and unnerving behavior". It is the deadliest shooting at a high school in United States history, surpassing the Columbine High School massacre that took place on April 20, 1999. The shooting came at a period of heightened public support for gun control following attacks in Las Vegas, Nevada and Sutherland Springs, Texas respectively in October and November 2017. The sheriff's office received a number of tips in 2016 and 2017 about Cruz's threats to carry out a school shooting. The FBI learned that a YouTube
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shooting, and how it will make him notorious. On November 30, 2018, the Sun-Sentinel reported Broward County Public Schools, which runs Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, had spent about $185,000 attempting to obscure its role in not preventing the massacre. The district also spent an undisclosed sum on legal opposition to the records related to the school's treatment of Nikolas Cruz while he was a student, and the school security procedures. A company named CEN received a $60,000 payment to review Cruz's school records and to investigate if the Broward County Public Schools followed the law in its handling of
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state. On , police presence was increased at schools in at least two counties in Florida in response to the shooting. The building where the shooting took place will be demolished. On , two weeks after the shooting, Stoneman Douglas reopened to students amid a heavy police presence. School principal Ty Thompson emphasized that the first week back would be focused on healing, with classes ending at 11:40 a.m. through . He tweeted "... Remember our focus is on emotional readiness and comfort not curriculum: so there is no need for backpacks. Come ready to start the healing process and
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A student took the gun, threatening to tell police if Carneal did not give it to him. Additionally, Carneal had told students that "something big is going to happen on Monday" but no one took him seriously. In the weeks before the shooting, Carneal stole several firearms from both his own home and a neighbor's home. On the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day, Carneal went to his neighbor's home and broke into the garage, taking" Later, he also stole: Presumably sometime after Thanksgiving Day, Carneal stole two shotguns from his father's closet and hid them under his bed. According to reports,
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time, a school resource officer suggested to have him undergo an involuntary psychiatric examination under the provisions of the Baker Act. Two guidance counselors agreed, but a mental institution did not. State investigators reported he had depression, autism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In their assessment, they concluded he "was at low risk of harming himself or others". He had previously received mental health treatment, but had not received treatment in the year leading up to the shooting. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel described Cruz's online profiles and accounts as "very, very disturbing". They contained pictures and posts of
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January 2018, the school switched from unarmed to armed security guards. Many nearby schools did the same due to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting the following month. The racial makeup of the Benjamin School's K-12 student body during the 2015-2016 school year was 86.5% White, 3.6% Hispanic, 2% African American, 2.1% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 5.8% multiracial. Benjamin students can choose from a wide range of courses, including 23 AP and 16 honors courses. High school graduation requirements include 4 credits of English, 4 credits of mathematics, 3.5 credits of science, 3 credits of social studies, 1 credit of fine
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Carolina." McMaster has stated he would sign legislation, if passed by the General Assembly, that "would allow anyone who is legally allowed to buy a gun to do so without a state permit and carry it openly or concealed." When students did a walkout to protest gun violence and to call for stricter gun control, a month after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, McMaster described the student walkout as "shameful" and said that it was a "tricky move" orchestrated by "left wing groups" which were using the students as "tools" to further their left wing agenda. Student activist David
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2018 United States gun violence protests In 2018 protests against gun violence in the United States increased after a series of mass shootings, most notably the February 14 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. An organized protest in the form of a national school walkout occurred on March 14. March for Our Lives was held on March 24. Another major demonstration occurred April 20, 2018. The anti-gun violence group Never Again MSD, formed and led by survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, held a rally on February 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, attended by hundreds of students. The Fort
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Cameron Kasky Cameron Kasky (born November 11, 2000) is an American activist and advocate against gun violence who co-founded the student-led Gun Violence Prevention advocacy group Never Again MSD. He is notable for helping to organize the March for Our Lives nationwide student protest in March 2018. Kasky is a survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Born on November 11, 2000, Kasky, a student, "theatre kid", and former member in the drama club at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was a junior at the time of the school shooting in
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requirement clause. The shooting took place during the afternoon of , 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, an affluent suburb about northwest of Fort Lauderdale. The shooter, former student Nikolas Cruz, was dropped off at the school by an Uber driver at 2:19 p.m., shortly before dismissal time. Carrying a duffel bag and a backpack, he was spotted and recognized by a staff member who radioed a colleague that he was walking "purposefully" toward Building 12, according to a police report. The first staff member claimed his training called for only reporting threats; his colleague hid
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people were killed in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. After the shooting, classes at Columbine were held at nearby Chatfield Senior High for the remaining three weeks of that school year. The school went through a major renovation in 1995, just four years before the massacre, adding a new library and cafeteria. After the shootings, Columbine completely demolished its library, located above the cafeteria, since it was the site where the majority of the deaths occurred. The site was then turned into a memorial ceiling and atrium; a new, larger library was built on the hill where the shooting
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law, on March 4, 2018, to raise the legal rifle-owner age from 18 to 21, with 3-day wait, after they had helped to organize nationwide student protests, following the local Parkland shooting, in February 2018, where the 19-year-old shooter had killed 17 and wounded 16 others, with an AR-15 rifle. The MSD athletics department operates programs in football, volleyball, lacrosse, softball, tennis, track, water polo, basketball, cheerleading, soccer, wrestling, swimming, cross country, and golf. The cheerleading squad at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School received international attention in 2012 when Coach Melissa Prochila, who had come to MSD from Coral Glades
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was one of the honorees to sign the Illinois High School Association's Hall of Fame ball, along with another former Quincy High player, Bruce Brothers. Douglas returns to Quincy annually to run his free 'Shooting for Christ' Basketball Camp in conjunction with the Salvation Army's Ray & Joan Kroc Community Center. Bruce Douglas (basketball) Bruce Douglas (born April 9, 1964) is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard, he played varsity basketball for Quincy Senior High School four years, and was a four-year starter at the University of Illinois. He also briefly played professionally with the Sacramento Kings
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The association has called for the governor to remove Israel following his handling of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Scott Israel Scott Israel is the Sheriff of Broward County, Florida, serving since 2013.. He is a member of the Democratic Party and an advocate for gun control. Israel has received significant media coverage for his department's controversial handling of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting which occurred in his jurisdiction. Israel was born in New York and is the son of a homicide detective. He became a patrol officer for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department in 1979.
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"socialist"; PolitiFact described the assertion as "pants-on-fire" false. Gun control is a key issue for this race. The election comes less than nine months after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, the deadliest school shooting in American history that killed 17 people. Senator Nelson has also mentioned the Orlando nightclub shooting that occurred in June 2016 and killed 49 people, stating that "nothing was done" by Governor Scott's administration. In the wake of Stoneman Douglas, Scott has raised the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, set a three-day waiting period to purchase assault-style weapons, and
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his role in failing to stop Cruz before the mass shooting took place. In an interview with CNN, Israel described his leadership at the department as "amazing", a claim that was widely mocked and criticized. According to a new report released and reviewed by "The New York Times" and "The Daily Beast", a year before the shooting, Cruz sought help from education specialists and it was determined that he might be able to be transferred out of Stoneman Douglas to another facility, Cross Creek. At first, Cruz stayed at Stoneman Douglas, but as his grades started to decline, he requested
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and was a former student at Aztec High School, but did not graduate. He worked at a local gas station. When Atchison entered Aztec High School on December 7, 2017 at approximately 8:04 a.m., he was "disguised as a student", and carrying a backpack with a Glock 9 mm semi-automatic pistol inside. Atchison was investigated by the FBI in March 2016 due to posts he had made on an online forum indicating that he was planning a shooting, but was not charged because he had not committed a crime and did not own a gun at the time. He had
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to sue him for using the city's logo without permission. In mid-2017, the Huffington Post picked up a story on OJ Simpson's voting eligibility which contained original research conducted by Baron for Tamarac Talk. Following the Parkland Shooting, the Washington Post ran a piece reporting on the dismissal of a Florida Legislator after claiming two survivors of the Parkland high school shooting were not students, but instead “actors that travel to various crisis when they happen.” The piece contained original research conducted by the Coral Springs Talk originally posted on the site on February 8. Talk Media Talk Media is
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to reject the award of hosting the Olympic Games after they had been granted. When Representative Lamm led a successful movement to reject a bond issue for expenses related to hosting the event, the International Olympic Committee relocated the 1976 Winter Olympics to Innsbruck, Austria. No venue had rejected the award before nor has any venue since. In 1999, the Columbine High School massacre became the most devastating high-school massacre in United States history until the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting in 2018. On July 20, 2012, not far from the location of the aforementioned massacre at Columbine High
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player in the nation in 2004. Douglas committed to Auburn University during his junior year of high school. Playing as the starting shooting guard in his freshman season (2004–05), he led the team in scoring, at 16.9 points per game, and scored a team season-high (as well as career high) 38 points against Nicholls State. Douglas, who had the second-highest freshman scoring average in the nation, was voted to the All-SEC Freshman Team, third-team Freshman All-America, and third-team All-SEC—Douglas was the fourth Auburn freshman to be named to the latter. Douglas submitted his name for the NBA draft in the
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to hold a moment of silence on May 21 at 10:00 AM CDT in honor of the victims, their families and first responders. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said the design of Texas schools with "too many entrances and too many exits" may have to be reconsidered. He said the issue is "not about the guns, it's about us." The organizers of the March for Our Lives, from the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting three months earlier, tweeted "Though this is the 22nd school shooting this year, we urge those reading this not to sweep it under the rug and
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Montenegro, Iran, Morocco, Poland, United Kingdom, Greece and Indonesia gathered to protest against the decision. Several protests have been planned following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, calling on President Trump and Republicans on both federal and state levels to take stricter action on gun control. These included protests at the National Rifle Association's headquarters in Virginia and a walkout at South Broward High School not far from where the shooting took place. Several nationwide school walkouts are being planned to protest the shooting and inaction on gun control. In June 2018 several protests were held in
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in a closet. Cruz entered Building 12, a three-story structure containing 30 classrooms typically occupied by about 900 students and 30 teachers. Armed with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle and multiple magazines, he activated a fire alarm and began firing indiscriminately at students and teachers. The fire alarm caused confusion because there had been a fire drill earlier in the day. At about 2:21 p.m. the same staff member heard gunfire and activated a code red lockdown. An armed school resource officer of the Broward County Sheriff's Office was on campus when the shooting broke out and took a position
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González gave an 11-minute speech in front of the Broward County Courthouse at a gun control rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The speech was in reaction to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, three days previously, during which a gunman had killed seventeen and severely injured many more. In the speech she pledged to work with her peers to pressure lawmakers to change the law. "We are going to be the last mass shooting," González proclaimed. "That's going to be Marjory Stoneman Douglas in that textbook, and it's all going to be due to the tireless efforts of the school
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do what the children ask. Are there any children on this floor? Are there any children making laws? Do we allow the children to tell us that we should pass a law that says, 'No homework'? Or 'You finish high school at the age of 12' just because they want it so? No. The adults make the laws because we have the age. We has the wisdom. And we have the experience." This was seen by some as demeaning and belittling the experience of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. students who had survived the shooting at their school. Porter did
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suspect in the 2018 shooting at MSD, is a former member of the JROTC unit as were three of the victims. Several students in the Stoneman Douglas Drama Club wrote "Shine", a song which is a memorial to the victims of the school shooting and to "anyone who has ever experienced gun violence." It has been performed at various venues, including a nationally broadcast CNN town hall, and at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2018. It has also been performed by other musical groups, such as the Badiene Magaziner Vocal Studio at the
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walkout planned by organizers of the Students' March, that occurred on March 14, in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The protest had students, parents, and gun control students leaving schools for seventeen minutes (one minute for each person who died during the shooting) starting at 10:00 a.m. in their respective time zone. The protest was held exactly one month after the Stoneman Douglas shooting. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) supported the student's activism. An estimated 3,000 schools and nearly 1 million students participated in the protest. Thousands of students gathered in Washington, D.C. and observed 17
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returned to Stoneman Douglas High School two years later, only to be expelled from the school in 2017 for disciplinary reasons. An email from the school administration had circulated among teachers, warning that he had made threats against other students. This led the school to ban him from wearing a backpack on campus. Psychiatrists recommended an involuntary admission of Cruz to a residential treatment facility starting in 2013. The Florida Department of Children and Families investigated him in September 2016 for Snapchat posts in which he cut both his arms and said he planned to buy a gun. At this
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Rick Scott on March 9, 2018. Florida Senate Bill 7026 The Florida Senate Bill 7026 or the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act is a Florida bill to tighten gun control, school security and school safety. The bill would ban bump stocks and raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21, among other restrictions. The Florida Senate passed the bill 20–18 in March 2018, three weeks after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The Florida House of Representatives passed the bill 67–50, with House Republicans voting 57–19 and House Democrats voting 10–31. The bill
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Florida Senate Bill 7026 The Florida Senate Bill 7026 or the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act is a Florida bill to tighten gun control, school security and school safety. The bill would ban bump stocks and raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21, among other restrictions. The Florida Senate passed the bill 20–18 in March 2018, three weeks after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The Florida House of Representatives passed the bill 67–50, with House Republicans voting 57–19 and House Democrats voting 10–31. The bill was signed into law by Governor
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Cameron Kasky's father registered a super PAC, Families vs Assault Rifles PAC (FAMSVARPAC), with intentions of going "up against NRA candidates in every meaningful race in the country". In March, the Florida Legislature passed a bill titled the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. It raised the minimum age for buying rifles to 21, established waiting periods and background checks, provided a program for the arming of some school employees and hiring of school police, banned bump stocks, and barred some potentially violent or mentally unhealthy people arrested under certain laws from possessing guns. In all, it allocated
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reviews but was unable to track down the individual who made the threatening comment. On , 2018, the FBI's Public Access Line received a tip from a person who was close to Cruz, more than a month before the shooting occurred. On , two days after the shooting, the agency released a statement that detailed this information. According to the statement, "The caller provided information about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting." After conducting an investigation, the FBI said the tip
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21 years old to obtain from K-Mart, and Manes did not get it for him until the evening of the 19th, causing the massacre to happen on the 20th. Manes asked if Harris was going shooting that night. Harris replied he would tomorrow. In 2001, K-Mart announced it would no longer sell handgun ammunition. In one scheduled meeting with his appointed psychiatrist, Harris had complained of depression, anger, and suicidal thoughts. He was prescribed Zoloft. He complained of feeling restless and having trouble concentrating; his doctor switched him to Luvox, a similar selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). Toxicology reports confirmed
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of "New York" magazine included a portfolio of Avedon's portraits of 25 survivors of school shootings, from a 1946 shooting at the Brooklyn High School For Automotive Trades to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Avedon's personal work has predominantly taken the form of portrait photography. Influenced by the extensive legacy of his grandfather's work, he has shot primarily in black & white, using 35mm and medium format film. His ongoing portrait project of artist have been intimate, close-up sittings, typically conducted in the artist's studio. Artists he has photographed for the project thus far include: Chuck Close, Richard Serra,
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the U.S. military presence in that region but hopes for greater economic growth as a result of trading with that country. He also believes the U.S. should support democracy, freedom, and true autonomy of the people of Hong Kong. On capital punishment, Rubio favors streamlining the appeals process. In February 2018 he attracted controversy following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting at a town hall event held by CNN when he was questioned by a survivor of the shooting about the supposed $3,303,355 he had received in donations from the NRA. Rubio replied, "I will always accept the help of
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buying guns or banning assault rifles might not have prevented the Pulse nightclub shooting, she stated, "if we could stop another tragedy. . .I think it's reasonable to say, here are a couple of common sense laws we could pass to make Americans more safe." In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Castor reiterated her support for repealing the Dickey Amendment of 1996, which discourages funding to the CDC to research gun violence prevention. Castor entered the race for what was then the 11th District when five-term Democrat Jim Davis (D) chose to run for governor (he
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going to stop the next shooting." The group has also participated in a range of state and national advocacy campaigns and events. In March 2018, when survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida organized the March for Our Lives, Giffords helped bring more than 200 people from Parkland to participate. The organization has helped link local and regional groups into a campaign to register voters in the hopes of removing NRA-backed lawmakers from office. Giffords has also brought together former military commanders and other veterans to urge political leaders to address America's 'gun
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fire. The fire came in the wake of a $60 million bond issue, $49 million of which was earmarked for a new high school. In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the school received backlash after superintendent Curtis Rhodes threatened to suspend students who participated in walk out protests. The school's Facebook page was subsequently taken down. Needville High School Needville High School is a public high school located in Needville, Texas, United States and classified as a 4A school by the UIL. The school serves residents of Needville, Fairchilds, and the unincorporated communities of Guy and
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as criminals and madmen have access to these guns, we are not safe. The time for talk is over." The bill died in committee without receiving a hearing. Smith re-filed his assault weapons ban for the 2018 legislative session just days after the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting, in which a lone gunman killed 58 people and caused 851 injuries. After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, Smith renewed his advocacy to enact a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. On February 20, less than a week after the massacre that killed 14 high school students
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Bethel Regional High School shooting The Bethel Regional High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on February 19, 1997, when student Evan Ramsey shot and killed two people and wounded two others at Bethel Regional High School in Bethel, Alaska. Ramsey is serving two 99-year prison sentences and will be eligible for parole in 2066 when he is 85. Reports say in the two weeks prior to the incident, more than 15 students knew of Ramsey's intention to commit a school shooting, and two actually assisted him. One student named James Randall taught him how to load and
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students went to the state Capitol in Tallahassee and watched as the Florida House of Representatives rejected a bill that would have banned assault weapons. Students strongly criticized the vote. The bill's sponsor, Carlos Guillermo Smith, noted the peculiarity of the timing of the rejection both because of the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School and because the Florida House of Representatives had just recently passed a bill declaring that pornography is a public health risk. In mid-March, Lori Alhadeff announced her own nonprofit organization Make Schools Safe, which will be mostly focusing on school campus security. In May 2018,
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or voice, while neo-digital natives use video or movies. This emphasizes the shift from PC to mobile and text to video among the neo-digital population. In March 2018, survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, themselves members of Generation Z, started to refer to themselves as the mass shooting generation, though school shootings such as the Columbine High School massacre have also been associated with earlier generations. Statistics Canada defines Generation Z as starting with the birth year 1993. Statistics Canada does not recognize a traditional Millennials cohort and instead has Generation Z directly follow what it designates as
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Shooting of Douglas Zerby The fatal shooting of Douglas Zerby occurred on December 12, 2010 in Long Beach, California. Zerby was shot by two Long Beach Police Department officers while playing with a garden hose nozzle. They claimed that they mistook the hose nozzle for a gun and fired at Zerby, killing him, and did not make any verbal warnings or commands. It was later discovered through audio recordings of the officers radios that a house phone rang startling an officer causing him to shoot. The other officers fired once the first shooter did, blaming it on "contagious fire" proving
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visit him about every month. In his letter, Hainstock takes responsibility for what he did, but he believes that he is not to blame for everything. In October 2008, Hainstock's supportive cellmate at Green Bay was reassigned without any official explanation. Weston High School shooting The Weston school shooting was a school shooting that occurred on September 29, 2006, in Weston High School in Cazenovia, Wisconsin, United States. The perpetrator, student Eric Hainstock, entered the school's main hallway with a revolver and fatally shot principal John Klang. He is serving a life sentence and will be eligible for parole in
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first students to speak out online after the shooting. He promoted the "March for Our Lives" student protest in numerous media interviews. He sang the national anthem before a basketball game featuring the Miami Heat. At the March for Our Lives nationwide protest in Washington, he said: Alex Wind Alex Wind is an American student activist against gun violence. A survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and a founding member of the Never Again MSD movement, he is a critic of politicians who are supported by the National Rifle Association. Wind was one of five Stoneman Douglas students
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game to the event in their final report of the incident, though identified that video game addiction may have been connected. In February 2018, following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, President Donald Trump, among others, said "the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts". Rhode Island state representative Robert Nardolillo also proposed legislation to tax violent video games (those rated "Mature" or higher by the ESRB) to use funds for supporting mental health programs in the state. Following the Stoneman Douglas shooting event, President Trump arranged to meet with several video game
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Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the deadliest shooting at an American high school, a shooter killed 17 people. Parkland is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (3.97%) is water. The northern boundary of Parkland coincides with the border between Broward and Palm Beach counties. West Boca Raton, an unincorporated area of Palm Beach County that extends west of Boca Raton's city limits, lies to the north. Coconut Creek lies to the east, Coral Springs lies to the south and the west is bounded
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helped to change the government of Cuba. He had supported the embargo earlier as Republican and independent. Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012, Crist announced a reversal of some of his previous stances on gun control. Prior to 2012, Crist had sometimes accused his opponents of not supporting gun rights strongly enough. Crist had also been endorsed by the NRA in 2006. Specifically, in 2012, Crist announced that he supported reinstating the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, banning high-capacity magazines, and instating more extensive background checks. In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Crist
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Dick's opened its first Field & Stream store in Cranberry Township, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in 2013. Thirty-five Field & Stream stores are open across the country, as of 2018. Jason Aldean became the Field & Stream brand's first spokesperson in August 2016. Following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, Dick's stopped selling assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and increased the minimum age for purchasing guns to 21. Dick's-branded stores had suspended assault weapon sales following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, but the guns were still available for purchase at Field & Stream locations.
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such as a mercantile, dry goods store and drug store, doctor's office, barbershop and newspaper office. Other exhibits include area Basque immigrants, Native Americans, Nevada's wild and free-roaming mustangs. The high school moved to Minden. It is known as Douglas High School and is still in operation today. Douglas County High School (Gardnerville, Nevada) Douglas County High School was the high school serving Douglas County, Nevada from 1915 to the mid-1950s when it became a middle school. In 1988 the building was retired from educational uses. Designed by prolific Nevada architect Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, it serves today as both the
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and receiving the Asian Awards' Rising Star of the Year award in 2018. The Stoneman Douglas High School shooting has resulted in not only some Stoneman Douglas students becoming youth activists for gun control legislation, but has also spurred a nation-wide resurgence of youth activism, including school walkouts. A group of Stoneman Douglas students also founded the advocacy group Never Again MSD. Never Again MSD led March for Our Lives. "Never Again" is also one of the group's hashtags, with the slogan having its roots as a resistance rallying cry during the Holocaust and is used by the Jewish Defense
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also named the EuroCup Finals MVP. Douglas last played with Uşak Üniversitesi Belediyespor, a Turkish team playing in the Turkish Second Division, starting in January 2012. He played against Tenis Eskrim Dağcılık in his first game with Uşak Belediyespor, on 8 January 2012. Douglas was also a member of the senior men's Panamanian national basketball team that competed at the 2006 FIBA World Championship. Ruben Douglas Ruben Enrique Douglas (born October 30, 1979) is a Panamanian-American professional basketball player. He is a 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 210 lb (95 kg) point guard-shooting guard. Douglas played high school basketball
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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting. Jones has also accused David Hogg and other survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting of being crisis actors. InfoWars promoted fabricated Pizzagate claims. The fake claims led to harassment of the owner and employees of Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C. pizzeria targeted by the conspiracy theories, including threatening phone calls, online harassment, and death threats. The owner sent a letter to Jones in February 2017
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distributing donations to victims that could be set up quickly and distributed fairly following a mass shooting. The National Compassion Fund has collected charitable donations and distributed funds to victims of the 2014 Fort Hood shooting, 2015 Chattanooga shootings, 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, 2017 Las Vegas shooting, the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and the 2018 Cincinnati shooting. The National Center for Victims of Crime supported the Elder Abuse Prevention and Protection Act of 2017, which increased professional training for federal investigators and prosecutors, designated prosecutors to handle cases of elder abuse in each federal judicial district, established elder
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Bartley was confirmed to be back in custody after trying to hit two deputies when they were investigating a probation violation. Campbell County High School shooting A school shooting occurred on November 8, 2005 at Campbell County Comprehensive High School in Jacksboro, Tennessee, United States, when a 15-year-old freshman student shot the school principal and two assistant principals. One assistant principal, Ken Bruce, died as a result of the shooting. Earlier in the day, school principal Gary Seale received information that student Kenneth Bartley, Jr. was armed with a handgun. The incident began when Seale confronted Bartley inside the administration
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in wake of the shooting. The event has also raised concern about increasing security at other esports events in the future to levels similarly seen in more professional sporting events. The BBC initial coverage of the shooting compared it to other shootings in the state of Florida, including the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the murders of Christina Grimmie, Trayvon Martin, and XXXTentacion, and the Orlando nightclub shooting. As the incident occurred 54 hours before the state polls closed in the gubernatorial primary elections, the political and gun law ramifications became political talking points. U.S. President Donald Trump contacted Florida
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W. R. Myers High School shooting The W. R. Myers High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on April 28, 1999, at W. R. Myers High School in Taber, Alberta, Canada. The gunman, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith, walked into his school and began firing at three students in a hallway, killing one student and wounding another student. It was the first fatal high-school shooting in Canada in more than two decades. The incident began when Smith entered the school campus armed with a .22-calibre rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. As lunch concluded, he fired at three
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use reusable bags, noting that Fred Meyer's own sales of such bags at its check stands had increased 30 percent from 2008 to 2009. In March 2018, Fred Meyer announced it would cease the sale of all firearms and ammunition to people under the age of 21, as a response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Later that month, it was announced that the ban would be extended to sales of firearms in general. Additionally, the company will stop selling magazines that feature "assault rifles," although the company did not specify how it would screen publications. Fred Meyer
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a vehicle that was driving illegally in the bicycle lane, impersonated a police officer and threatened to arrest him if he did not yield to Golden's vehicle. The "New York Post" reported that Golden's car's plate number was associated with "more than 30 traffic violations over the last four years." Following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, Golden fired a staffer named Anthony Testaverde who had shared Twitter posts comparing activist David Hogg to Hitler and Nazi Youth. Marty Golden Martin J. Golden (born September 22, 1950) is an American politician from Brooklyn,
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teams elected to wear the caps of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School baseball team to honor students and staff slain on February 14 in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in nearby Parkland, Florida. Houston took the lead in the third inning with a two-run home run by catcher Max Stassi off Long, who came on in relief of Milone after two scoreless innings. The Nationals struck back in the fifth inning, with the third baseman Dominguez driving home left fielder Andrew Stevenson after he doubled and then being brought home on an RBI single by first baseman Jose
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June 9, 2017, Gostisbehere signed a six-year, $27 million deal with the Flyers, worth $4.5 million a season. Following a 4-1 defeat to the Florida Panthers on March 4, 2018, Gostisbehere invited the hockey team of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to a meet and greet. This was weeks after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. His older sister Felicia was a figure skater who suffered a career-ending hip injury as a teenager. Gostisbehere's cousin Ugo Gostisbehere is a professional soccer player in France. He currently lives with his girlfriend, Gina, and his three French bulldogs, Cooper, Pippa, and Louie.
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where I once lived...I cannot support the primary weapon I used to defend our people being used to kill children I swore to defend...The AR-15 is an excellent platform for recreational shooters to learn to be outstanding marksmen. Unfortunately, it is also an excellent platform for those who wish to kill the innocent. Democratic Senator from Florida Bill Nelson said "I have hunted all my life...but an AR-15 is not for hunting. It’s for killing.” Al Hoffman Jr., a Republican donor in Florida, pledged that he would no longer fund legislative groups
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diversity. In January 2018, several freshman were found with nude pictures of their fellow students on their cellphones, and were found to be distributing and showing these photos to their classmates. After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, students held a 17-minute walkout (in honor of the 17 victims of the shooting) on the morning of March 14, 2018. Police were present to make sure the walkout was safe. No students were reprimanded for any actions. In the fall of 2000, providing a laptop to every student and teacher for educational purposes was proposed. A wireless network
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shooting in Isla Vista, California; the California law also permits law enforcement officials to petition for an order for the removal of guns from an individual for up to twelve months. The California Legislature passed a measure in 2016 to allow high school and college employees, co-workers and mental health professionals to file such petitions, but this legislation was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown. Before 2018, five states had some version of red flag laws. After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, that number more than doubled, as more states enacted such laws: Florida, Vermont,
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high school friends in the first four days after the shooting, which was committed by a 19-year-old former student, who had been armed with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle. The initial three co-founders were Kasky, Alex Wind, and Sofie Whitney. On February 15, 2018, one day after the shooting, Kasky met with Wind at a candlelight vigil. Wind stated, "The day after the shooting, we said something needs to happen; there needs to be a central space; there needs to be a movement." After the vigil, Kasky invited Wind and Whitney to his house. Kasky came up with the name
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"now is the time to have a real conversation about gun control legislation". Lori Alhadeff, whose daughter was killed in the shooting, implored President Trump to do something to improve school safety. In the aftermath of the shooting, some of the student survivors organized a group called Never Again MSD. The group was created on social media with the hashtag #NeverAgain, activism inspired in part by the ground broken by the #MeToo movement and the 2018 Women's March. The group demanded legislative action to prevent similar shootings, and has condemned lawmakers who received political contributions from the National Rifle Association.
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the scene and saw three Broward deputies behind their vehicles with pistols drawn. The commanding sheriff's office captain ordered deputies to form a perimeter instead of immediately confronting the shooter; this tactic was contrary to BSO training regarding active shooters. Based on timestamps of the police logs, the order was given some time after the shooting had stopped. The BSO captain was widely criticized for her actions and, nine months after the shooting, resigned for "personal reasons". Sheriff Israel said that Coral Springs officers were the first to enter the building, about four minutes after Cruz had left the school.
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Cruz as a troubled student. The final report omitted various details about the instability of Cruz. A school resource officer (SRO)—a sheriff's deputy—remained outside Building 12 during the shooting; he was suspended without pay the following day but he immediately retired. Sheriff Israel said "[the deputy] was absolutely on campus for this entire event" and that he should have "[gone] in, addressed the killer, [and] killed the killer". A statement released by the officer's lawyer said he believed the shooting was happening outside the building, which he said he told the first Coral Springs police officer who arrived on scene.
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