Sentences with phrase «gun safety action»

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Representatives of two gun control advocacy groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety, plan to speak at more than 20 pride events around the country this weekend, according to a statement from the groups.

Student protests and calls for action have stayed in the headlines, and politicians are under pressure to enact new gun safety rules.

She pointed pointed to gun - safety actions this week by Congress and the Justice Department.

«It's too early to read the tea leaves in DC, but we know the public wants action,» John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, said.

The rate of gun violence is also increasing and this has led to the development of organizations such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America whose main goal is to advocate for public safety.

At 1:30 p.m., Queens Rep. Joe Crowley hosts a press conference with students and activists to demand congressional action on gun safety, Renaissance Charter School, 35 - 59 81st St., Queens.

Despite failing to ignite action from the Senate, Congressman Brian Higgins says the Democratic sit - in at the House chambers «effective in galvanizing public opinion» on what he calls «common sense gun safety measures.»

(Albany, NY)-- New York State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon today joined advocates including New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun violence.

At 9 a.m., gun control advocates from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America's city chapter deliver postcards to a district office of Rep. Michael Grimm, as part of a campaign organized by the group and the organization Everytown for Gun Safety; 7308 13th Ave., Brooklyn.

More than 800 related events are taking place around the world to call for legislative action to address school safety and gun violence.

Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun violence prevention group with ties to former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is endorsing Clinton for president today, arguing that she is the most likely candidate to take action to toughen the nation's gun laws.

Seventeen students and teachers were killed in a Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, sparking a public outcry for new gun - control measures as well as action to improve school safety.

«We support this and other legislation that will further strengthen the strongest gun safety laws in the country, but as the governor said, to most effectively curb gun violence we need federal action and the lack of federal action on this is alarming,» Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said.

As our nation awakens and finally stands up to demand action on gun safety, Shelley knows that we need to change the Senate's leadership to end the NRA's stranglehold on our State Senate.

«The repeated obstruction in Congress of commonsense measures that seem reasonable to almost all Americans has led to the President's strong and necessary action on gun safety,» the New York Democrat said in a statement.

Use these resources to help navigate conversations about gun violence, school safety, mental health and how to take action after a school shooting.

-- Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will be on the University of Boulder campus this afternoon for an event with Lonnie and Sandy Phillips, who lost their daughter in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shootings, to call for urgent action on gun safety.

The action was taken only days after thousands of people in Wisconsin — and hundreds of thousands of people across the country — participated in student - led marches to protest gun violence and advocate for school safety.

More than 800 related events are taking place around the world to call for legislative action to address school safety and gun violence.

Classrooms across America were left almost barren as tens of thousands of students walked out of their classrooms Wednesday to demand action on gun violence and school safety.

In a wave of protests one historian called the largest of its kind in American history, tens of thousands of students walked out of their classrooms Wednesday to demand action on gun violence and school safety.

Last Wednesday, tens of thousands of students around the U.S. walked out of their classrooms to demand action on gun violence and school safety.