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March 15, 2018

U.S. Catholic schools take prayerful approach to National School Walkout over guns

Christopher Hernandez, a senior at Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, Md., leads students as they exit the school to participate in the National School Walkout March 14. During the walkout students prayed 17 Hail Marys and released 17 balloons, one for each of the people killed in a Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
DENVER, Colo. – On Wednesday, thousands of students throughout the United States walked out of classrooms as part of National School Walkout, a demonstration calling for safer schools and increased gun control, in the wake of the February high school shooting that left 17 Florida students dead.
Published in International
March 8, 2018

Bob Brehl: Hope arises in U.S. gun laws debate

Automatic handguns are shown in the weapons vault at the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms National Laboratory Center in Beltsville, Md., in this 2013 file photo.
Nothing changed after 20 very young children were slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., five years ago.
Published in Register Columnists
February 28, 2018

Charles Lewis: Gun violence needs more than prayers

High school students hold candles in front of the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh Feb. 20 in memory of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The students were calling for safer gun laws after 17 people were killed when 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz stormed the Parkland school Feb. 14 with an AR-15 semi-automatic style weapon.

The massacre of 17 innocents at a Parkland, Fla., high school is not fading out of the news as quickly as other similar tragedies that have plagued the United States.

Published in Charles Lewis
February 23, 2018

With growing student activism on gun violence, will lawmakers act?

President Donald Trump bows his head during a prayer as he sits between Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors and students Julia Cordover and Carson Abt Feb. 21 at the White House. Trump hosted the listening session with high school students. families and teachers to discuss school safety in the wake of a mass shooting a week earlier at the school in Parkland, Fla.
WASHINGTON – Determination and resolve, mixed with frustration and anger, are guiding a new round of resolute activism to reshape federal gun laws.
Published in International
February 22, 2018

Bob Brehl: Weapons of mass domestic destruction

Joe Zevuloni weeps in front of a cross to commemorate the victims of the shooting at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

On Valentine’s Day, there was yet another U.S. massacre when a shooter killed 17 Florida high school students and wounded a score more.

Published in Register Columnists
February 21, 2018

Parkland students arrive in Florida capital to urge action on gun reform

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., cross a street in Tallahassee prior to speaking with Florida state legislators Feb. 20 at the Capitol. About 100 students from the Parkland school traveled in a three-bus caravan to demand gun restrictions a week after the deadly shooting that left 17 of their classmates and teachers dead.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – About 100 students from Parkland arrived in Tallahassee the evening of Feb. 20, highly motivated to press their state lawmakers in person to reform gun laws after the deadly shooting rampage at their high school.
Published in International