Sentences with phrase «even as gun»

Even as the guns rumbled on the Western Front and the world convulsed in total war, Albert Einstein was putting the finishing touches to his vision of a perfectly balanced cosmos.

Not exact matches

Not satisfied with the gun industry's response to demands for help ending an epidemic of gun violence, groups representing millions of workers are pressuring what they see as an even bigger change - maker.

Even as legislators and presidential hopefuls discuss gun control measures, investors worry that a year - long surge in firearm sales is losing steam.

Yet even as firearm manufactures vie for their place in this growing market, history shows that it's not enough just to make a gun in a girly colour.

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

That's according to Knowingly CEO Byron Reese, whose new tool, Correctica, recently found scads of errors even on reputable websites operated by big guns such as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard, and The New York Times.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

One of my first at home / Saturday morning projects as a 10 year - old boy was to build a robot with tin cans my Mom had thrown out and plenty of lead solder and an «Archer» soldering gun, which still works after 50 years, even the little light on the front!

It's true that opinions about guns are similar across age groups, even as younger people are more left - wing in general.

At one point, he even suggested that authorities should be able to «Take the guns first, follow due process second,» when disarming people considered to be a threat, such as those with mental health issues.

Congress has passed no significant gun reforms — and it still doesn't look likely to do so, even as kids take to the streets and walk out of their schools

That such a gun - friendly state adopted any firearm restrictions represents a sea change, even more so as the restrictions were drafted and approved in a matter of three weeks, after a bipartisan vote and the signature of a Republican governor likely to be on the ballot later this year as a Senate candidate.

But gun rights enthusiasts are not mistaken to see a somewhat manipulative strategy at work — even as their baroque conspiracy theories remain utterly false.

It's being hailed as a step toward addressing gun violence, but it's a far cry from the «comprehensive» gun control student activists are demanding — and that even President Donald Trump once called on Congress to pass.

Yet Democrats have largely viewed that debate as an attempt to shift focus away from guns — even a cop - out for Republicans.

If you are legendary actor Nicolas Cage — and on the verge of a career renaissance and even higher, unprecedented levels of global fame as the star of the upcoming Left Behind film — what would you wear if you were attending a Guns N» Roses concert in Las Vegas alongside Andrew Dice Clay.

Even something as inanimate as a gun has its many defenders.

Some venerable and respected manufacturers, such as Ithaca, are now producing special riot guns for the public, and even shorter - barrel models for the police and military.

Bro, put even 10 percent of your efforts, and all you other readers as well, just 10 percent of effort towards cutting down death in the media in entertainment form and you will do FAR MORE than by taking away guns from the people.

The comparison is not irrelevant, as they are prevalent in our society, and even the most far left liberal can't believe that getting rid of all the guns in the country is a viable option.

Wenger has already maintained that he will defend his charges relating to the penalty that Mike Dean gave to West Brom on New Years Eve, and it would seem that he is going to stick to his guns on this one as well, even though it is not quite so clearcut as the handball given against Calum Chambers.

The NBA was able to begin offering 10 - day contracts on Monday and, as if on cue, Green busted out the big guns in the D - Fenders game that evening.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

Heck, even De Boer is a good manager, his experience with Ajax will come in handy when it comes to developing our young guns, as well as giving our established first team players the guideline Wenger is incapable of.

These types of toys include cap guns, musical toys, toy phones, horns, sirens, and even squeaky rubber toys, which can produce noise as high as 90 to 120 decibels.

As someone who used to own guns, but who no longer does, I'm actually very interested to learn what % of Americans have purchased a gun at some point in their life, even if they no longer own one.

But even though the 5 - 4 majority ruling makes an intellectual end run around the language of the Second Amendment to get to their ruling, they very clearly state that society (government, convened to collectively protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from as individuals) has the right to, and legitimate interest in controlling gun ownership, in several specific ways.

Even as he voiced support for proposals generally backed by Democrats — including expanded background checks and raising the age limit to 21 for some gun buyers — the president peppered his remarks with inaccurate facts about mass shootings and gun policy.

Long also blasted the measure as a «political charade» that only boosts Cuomo's political standing by being the first state in the nation to pass gun control legislation, even before the federal government and Obama administration can do something on the issue.

Webb's conservative position on gun laws is well - known, but here he is on evolution: «This confrontation between religious and scientific theories is still unsettled even today, as creationists rationally argue that the living world could not have been fashioned without an «intelligent designer,» and that the theory of evolution as presented by the Darwinists still rests on scientific speculation that has yet to be proven.»

Cuomo said it was necessary to pass the law fast — even as President Obama and other governors were preparing new gun laws — because guns sales were spiking as buyers sought to avoid new laws.

Democrats in the New York state Senate say they will push harder for gun control bills in the wake of the Florida shooting that left 17 dead and are even considering proposing the measures as hostile amendments.

He may not even face Sen. Greg Ball in the general election, but Democrat Justin Wagner is already taking the Putnam County Republican to task for his opposition to the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

The bill has now made its way to the Senate, even as there's zero evidence to prove that more guns make us safer.

«Fine, even if that's what you consider as the base of the problem, why do you let mentally ill people to buy guns so they can shoot people?

Cuomo reached back even further in his remarks to his first - term accomplishments, including the passage of the 2013 SAFE Act, a sweeping and controversial gun control law, as well as the approval of the legalization of same - sex marriage in 2011.

There is a government agency that will enforce gun control, various regulations such as background checks and waiting periods require even more government to do the checks and enforce the regulations.

As budget negotiations — which are conducted behind closed doors among the governor and three top legislative leaders, out of sight of even other lawmakers — unfolded over the past week, it became increasingly clear that the Legislature would punt policy issues such as gun control or bail reform to after the budget's April 1 deadline, in favor of financial considerationAs budget negotiations — which are conducted behind closed doors among the governor and three top legislative leaders, out of sight of even other lawmakers — unfolded over the past week, it became increasingly clear that the Legislature would punt policy issues such as gun control or bail reform to after the budget's April 1 deadline, in favor of financial considerationas gun control or bail reform to after the budget's April 1 deadline, in favor of financial considerations.

We know what's behind the Democrat talking points, so when they call for «common sense gun control», we won't allow things that even we think are good ideas, as they will then be expanded, Dems will want more and more and more.

Mr. Jeffries also lamented what he perceived as a general lack of speed and transparency in the investigation — even as Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Garner's arrest, and his wife have been respectively arrested and processed for a gun charge and misdemeanor assault.

And the money spent on issue ads that could sway an election — such as gun control — is not even counted by the feds as political contributions.

The Boulder City Council passed a sweeping gun control ordinance Tuesday night banning «assault weapons» and bump stocks, even as a pro-Second Amendment nonprofit threatened to...

Not surprisingly, state Democrats are zeroing in on Texas Gov. Rick Perry's support for Rob Astorino this evening in Buffalo, pointing to the possibly 2016 presidential hopeful's stance on guns, abortion and same - sex marriage as not being in step with most New Yorkers.

«Even if the gun industry lobby and its allies in Washington continue to block federal progress on this issue as they have for so long,» said Kavanagh «I believe that New York lawmakers can and will step up.

BY DUNCAN OSBRNE What was billed as a vigil for the people murdered by a gunman in an Orlando nightclub quickly became a rally in support of gun control legislation as elected officials, the head of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV), and even a trauma surgeon called for tougher federal laws to control -LSB-...]

He speculated that Cuomo was seeking national headlines and seeking primarily to placate the left, and then wondered whether it was even worse, and Cuomo was using the latest shooting tragedy as an excuse to push a radical gun agenda he wanted to advance «all along.»

Democrats point to the gun lobby's donations to the GOP as a big reason the Senate has continued to refuse to pass the microstamping bill — even as crimes committed by perpetrators armed with illegal guns are plaguing law enforcement efforts in the city.

Besides — gun control (or «gun safety,» as some advocates prefer to brand the message), is a nuanced issue, even among Democrats.

Whether there are dangers to being listed as owning a gun when you don't, is up for debate, but anyone would feel strange about their house being noted on a map for information that doesn't even apply to them.

«Together as one borough of families, we mourn the loss of lives taken by senseless gun violence that has spared no home, not even the neighborhoods here in the «World's Borough»,» said Borough President KATZ.