Sentence examples for shootings gun from inspiring English sources

After these mass shootings, gun sales do go up, because people start getting freaked out.

In the wake of the Newtown shootings, gun opponents and others have called for tighter restrictions on the sale of weapons and better background checks on buyers, measures that are sure to face an uphill battle in Washington.

A26 Shootings, Guns and Money Gun violence costs Americans $100 billion a year, according to a new book that seeks to make a comprehensive estimate of the cost of criminal shootings, gun accidents and suicides committed with guns.

Rather than identifying Americans' easy and even vaunted access to firearms as a leading cause of mass shootings, gun rights advocates would rather blame gun violence on mental illness, bad parenting and other factors other than the cheap and easy availability of guns.

Gun violence costs Americans $100 billion a year, according to a new book by two economists that is the first effort to make a comprehensive estimate of the price the nation pays for criminal shootings, gun accidents and suicides committed with guns.

He will know that Michelle Obama has a downer on junk food, that Republicans are losing the argument over Obamacare, that the rock-star economist Thomas Piketty is in a spot of bother over his statistics (as revealed by the Financial Times last Saturday) and that, following the latest California shootings, gun control is once again a hot topic on the other side of the Atlantic.

Being able to think on your feet and modify the plan as necessary is more important than having the longest-shooting gun or the best martial art skills.

Compared to other developed countries, the US has far more guns and far more mass shootings and gun deaths, including homicides, suicides, and accidents.

Given the increased frequency of these types of attacks, at this point, the sad correlation between mass shootings and gun manufacturers' stock prices surprises no one -- not even the gun manufacturers themselves.

WASHINGTON ― After what seems like a never-ending stream of deadly mass shootings, many gun reform proponents fear that Americans have become too desensitized to bloodshed to demand action to end gun violence.

While mass shootings and gun related homicides are certainly a tragedy, they aren't going to be solved by restricting the kind of gun someone owns or by creating more gun free zones.