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Alfonso Calderon (activist)
Alfonso Calderón Atienzar (born October 10, 2001) is a Spanish-American student activist against gun violence. He is a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and a founding member of the Never Again MSD movement. Early life and activism Calderon was born in a Spanish town outside Madrid called Alcobendas, and he has been living in the United States since 2008. Calderon criticized lawmakers for failing to enact sensible gun laws as well as screenings to keep mentally ill people from being able to buy "military grade weapons", and he criticized the National Rifle Association (NRA) and their spokesperson Dana Loesch for encouraging gun proliferation as well as politicians funded by the NRA. He said that student voices were not being taken seriously enough. He described a proposal of arming teachers Arming teachers is equipping teachers in preschool through secondary school with firearms with the intent to prevent casualties from School shooting, school shooti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alfonso Calderon (other)
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Alfonso Calderón may refer to: *Alfonso Calderon (activist) (born 2001), American activist against gun violence * Alfonso Calderón (poet) (1930–2009), Chilean poet See also *Calderón Calderón () is a Spanish and occupational surname. It is derived from the Vulgar Latin "''caldaria''" ("cauldron") and refers to the occupation of tinker. "Calderón" without any further specifics usually refers to Pedro Calderón de la Barca, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Congressional Candidates Who Received Campaign Money From The National Rifle Association
This list of United States congressional candidates who received campaign money from the National Rifle Association of America is from the nonpartisan group OpenSecretsKURTIS LEE and MALOY MOORE, March 3, 2018, Los Angeles TimesThe NRA used to be a bipartisan campaign contributor, but that changed in 1994. Here's why/ref>Business Insider, February 28, 2018These are the members of Congress with the most NRA donations Retrieved April 2, 2018, "...The NRA remains one of the premier gun rights lobbying groups in the US, regularly contributing to congressional candidates...."MPN Now, Richard Hermann, March 7, 2018Richard Hermann: Blood money flowing from the NRA Retrieved April 2, 2018, "...The NRA gave $5.9 million to 223 House Republicans and $106,000 to nine House Democrats in the 2016 election cycle...."Debbie Lord of Cox Media, February 28, 2018, Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWho are the top 10 recipients of NRA money?/ref> which extracts campaign contribution data from the Federal E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
People From Alcobendas
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Parkland High School Shooting Activists
Parkland often refers to a park. Parkland or Parklands may also refer to: Geography * Aspen parkland, a biome transitional between prairie and boreal forest (taiga) * Landscaped parkland, a managed rural area associated with European country houses Places Australia * Adelaide Park Lands, the figure eight of green space surrounding the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, and along both banks of the River Torrens within the City of Adelaide * Parklands, Western Australia * Parklands, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie Canada * Parkland, Calgary, Alberta, a neighborhood in the city of Calgary * Parkland County Parkland County is a municipal district in central Alberta, Canada. Located west of Edmonton in Census Division No. 11, its municipal office, Parkland County Centre, is located north of the Town of Stony Plain on Highway 779. History ;20 ..., a municipal district in Alberta, Canada ** Sturgeon River—Parkland, a federal electoral district in central Alberta ** Parkland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
People From Parkland, Florida
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
American Gun Control Activists
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Living People
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2001 Births
The following is a list of notable births in 2001. January–April * January 1 – Angourie Rice, Australian actress * January 3 – Deni Avdija, Israeli basketball player * January 5 – Mykhailo Mudryk, Ukrainian footballer * January 9 ** Eric García (footballer, born 2001), Eric García, Spanish footballer ** Rodrygo, Brazilian footballer * January 15 ** Alexandra Agiurgiuculese, Romanian-Italian rhythmic gymnast ** Charline Schwarz, German archer * January 17 – Enzo Fernández, Argentine footballer * January 24 – Leevi Aaltonen, Finnish ice hockey player * January 25 – Michela Pace, Maltese singer * January 29 – Melania Rodríguez, Spanish trampolinist * February 12 – Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Georgian footballer * February 13 – Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player * February 23 – Rinky Hijikata, Australian tennis player * February 19 – David Mazouz, American actor * February 24 ** Ramona Marquez, British actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arming Teachers
Arming teachers is equipping teachers in preschool through secondary school with firearms with the intent to prevent casualties from School shooting, school shootings. Such proposals have engendered public debate regarding with whom the responsibility for providing a safe environment lies, and whether it would reduce or escalate the risk of shootings. School shootings, and proposals to arm teachers, are most common in the United States, but proposals have also been made in countries such as Israel, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, and Thailand. In the United States, proposals to arm teachers were made following shootings at schools in Columbine High School massacre, Columbine, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Newtown, Connecticut; Sidney, Ohio; Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Parkland, Florida; and Robb Elementary School shooting, Uvalde, Texas. 43 percent of Americans support arming of school personnel, with greater support among gun owner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dana Loesch
Dana Lynn Loesch ( ; ; born September 28, 1978) is an American radio and television host, TV host. She is a former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and a former writer and editor for ''Breitbart News''. Loesch was the television host, host of the program ''Dana'' on Blaze Media, TheBlaze TV from 2014 to 2017. She also hosts a radio syndication, nationally syndicated weekday talk radio, radio talk show. Loesch has appeared as a guest on television networks such as Fox News, CNN, CBS, American Broadcasting Company, ABC, and HBO. Early life Loesch was raised by her mother, Gale, in an extended family of Southern Baptists. She claims descent from Cherokee Nation (1794–1907), Cherokees in Georgia, who she described were "moved on the Cherokee removal, Trail of Genocide" and later listed on the Dawes Rolls. She is also Irish Americans, of Irish descent through her paternal grandmother. She graduated from Fox High School in Arnold, Missouri. She later attended St. Loui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
