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Parkland activists join renewed push for gun safety laws

Local activists, including some familiar faces from Parkland, have stepped back into their roles to help pave the way toward gun safety reform.

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Shock, anger, guilt: What Parkland can teach Uvalde about mental health struggles ahead

Four years after her daughter watched a friend get shot in a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School classroom, Nicole Cook is angry that another community faces the same magnitude of mental health recovery without a roadmap.

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Robert Runcie now leads national superintendent group and school safety initiative

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Robert Runcie, whose tenure as Broward schools superintendent included the Parkland tragedy and a grand jury indictment, is now overseeing a national group of school leaders and a $1 million project to improve school safety around the country.

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At March for Our Lives rally in DC, frustration mixes with optimism amid renewed push for action

WASHINGTON — Serena Rodrigues remembers how she felt four years ago, during her first March for Our Lives rally in Orlando, Florida, when she took a moment to watch a seemingly endless throng of people march together in support of gun control.

Miami Herald

Thousands of protesters demand action on US gun violence

Washington (AFP) - Thousands of people took to the streets in the United States on Saturday to push for action on the devastating gun violence plaguing the country, where Republican politicians have repeatedly blocked efforts to enact stricter firearms laws.

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‘We deserve better.’ In Parkland, March for Our Lives rally demands end to gun violence

MIAMI — Thousands of people gathered in Parkland and across the country on Saturday to rally against gun violence.

Miami Herald

Thousands gather at March for Our Lives rallies nationwide to push for gun control

Speakers in Washington called on senators to act to pass stronger gun control measures. The rallies come after the shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas.

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Thousands gathering in Parkland, elsewhere to ‘March for Our Lives’ against gun violence

MIAMI — Thousands of people are gathering in Parkland and across the country on Saturday to rally against gun violence.

Miami Herald

Thousands rally for action on US gun violence after mass shootings

Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, that activists say should compel Congress to act.

France 24

Parkland District chief ‘removed from his assignment,’ Broward Sheriff’s Office says

PARKLAND, Fla. — The chief of the Parkland district of the Broward Sheriff’s Office was “relieved of duties” Friday, the city’s Mayor Rich Walker said.

Tribune News Service

This weekend brings another March For Our Lives - Roll Call

“I’m tired of being here … doing the job of what our senators should be doing,” Parkland survivor David Hogg said ahead of Saturday’s march.

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Raising the drinking age helped reduce crashes. Could age limits curb gun violence?

With gun violence now the leading cause of death among young people, gun control advocates say there is an urgent need to raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles and other long guns to 21.

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Defense asks judge to withdraw from Parkland case. She denies the motion

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland mass shooting trial became the scene of a tense standoff Monday pitting the defense, missing a critical team member due to COVID, against a Broward County judge who has grown openly tired of delays that have pushed jury selection into its third month.

Tribune News Service

Defense asks judge to withdraw from Parkland case. Judge denies the motion

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Defense lawyers asked Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to step down from the Parkland mass shooting case Monday, hours after threatening to withdraw as counsel over an order to continue picking jurors while a key member of the defense team is home fighting COVID.

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The Independent UK

Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps retelling her own school ‘lockdown’ story to attack gun control advocates. What really happened?

Greene called on Hogg to discuss ‘common sense’ gun reform with her

The Independent UK

Parkland survivor David Hogg shuts down Marjorie Taylor Greene on guns: ‘Don’t have time to help you go viral’

Far-right Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene has come under fire for harassing David Hogg in the past and for pushing false claims about mass shootings

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Parkland survivor David Hogg urges people abroad to protest at U.S. embassies

March For Our Lives, a youth-led organization that seeks to end gun violence, is gearing up to hold a march on Saturday in the wake of a series of deadly mass shootings in the U.S.

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The tragic history of police responding too late to active shooters

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The Independent UK

Box of loaded guns found in Florida school near 2018 Parkland shooting

Parents were not made aware of the incident until more than 24 hours had passed

The Guardian - US

‘Significant’ consequences if lawmakers fail to act on gun control, Democrat warns

Senator Chris Murphy says measures passed in Florida after Parkland shooting could attract Republican support

Tribune News Service

Change in the wake of tragedy: The new safety measures planned for Florida’s schools

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — New measures to increase students’ safety are advancing in Florida, coming at a time of heightened public outcry in response to recent school tragedies.

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A teacher who was at the Parkland shooting offers advice for the Uvalde survivors

Kim Krawczyk, a teacher who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in 2018, shares advice for the community in Uvalde, Texas, after last week's mass shooting there.

The Conversation

5 ways to reduce school shootings

After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, psychology professor Paul Boxer and his colleagues reviewed research to see what could be learned from what they refer to as the “science of violence prevention.” In the wake of the May 24, 2022, massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,…

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns? Tell that to the grieving families in Uvalde

Can we finally put to rest the dangerously wrong aphorism that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"?

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Florida reacted to school shootings. The US can, too

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators met Tuesday on Zoom to continue exploring a compromise on gun safety legislation, just as more families in Uvalde, Texas, held funerals for some of 19 children and two teachers slaughtered there at an elementary school last week. We’re not naive enough to think…

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