Sentences with phrase «against gun control»

His Facebook page BEFORE the shooting shows his true bias against gun control.

So, anyone against gun control is too biased to be taken seriously.

«There are people who could have a good argument [against gun control], but I have yet to see it,» Deitsch said.

It's like who could rationally and morally be against gun control?

(S.C.) A plan to promote firearm instruction in South Carolina public schools has drawn national attention — with many pundits calling it a clumsy push back against gun control advocates in the wake of Sandy Hook and other school - based tragedies.

Anyone who thinks the movie takes a stand either for or against gun control or that it makes reasonable arguments for that stand is reaching.

Astorino was at the capitol to speak at a protest against a gun control law approved by Cuomo and the legislature last year.

Is that the position where he was for gun control or the position where he was against gun control.

Most members of the Western New York State Senate delegation voted against the gun control legislation that is making its way through Albany.

That distinction goes to Jason Paul, a little known Democrat from Colchester — a UConn law student challenging Democratic state Rep. Linda Orange, who voted against the gun control law.

The only Republican incumbent who was defeated Tuesday was Rep. Michael Molgano of Stamford, who voted against the gun control bill after the Newtown shootings.

Cuomo noted that Zeldin opposed the SAFE Act when he was a member of the Senate Republican conference, and has voted against gun control measures since arriving in Congress.

Most of the support comes from the New York City region, with more upstate voters against the gun control provisions.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

Thousands of gun rights supporters have rallied at the New York state Capitol against gun control measures championed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

This fear of an NRA backlash might, at least in part, explain why Republican senators continue to vote against gun control legislation that's popular with their own conservative constituents.

Because of the many uncontrolled variables involved in comparisons between countries, I don't believe such statistics can help the case for or against gun control.

its funny how the media pushed antigun propaganda but yet 80 % of every comment board, every person i talk to, is against gun control.

There are plenty of sound points to make against gun control.

However, unlike most people from my state, I am very much against gun control, against amnesty for illegal immigrants, and support very strict and secure border controls.

The story is about how evangelicals are against gun control.

«Rep. Young suggests guns could've saved Jews during Holocaust,» from Alaska Public Media: «Speaking at a conference in Juneau last week, Alaska Congressman Don Young [R] argued against gun control by suggesting Jews might not have died in the Holocaust if they had been armed.

i360 uses its own data to slice online populations into segments, such as those for and against gun control and traditional marriage.

Not exact matches

Students who have been vocal about the need for gun control spoke out against DeVos in person and on Twitter.

He has now returned to the financial data firm he founded but is hardly giving up his high - wattage policy activism — leading campaigns for gun control and against smoking and obesity.

The president's recent comments on the possibility of new gun control reforms must be measured against his pledges to gun advocates in the past.

The current fight between Delta and its home state is occurring against the novel backdrop of many corporations speaking up about gun control for the first time.

As a result, Republican lawmakers are more resistant to calls for gun control — arguing against «politicizing» mass shootings and focusing on issues like mental health instead.

Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday's White House Correspondents» Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress.

Beneath the calls for gun control that mark this remarkable political moment, there seems to be an underlying rebellion, one that is demanding an end to the war against youth.

Take, for instance, Florida's gun laws: A new report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control nonprofit formerly known as the Legal Community Against Violence, issued a report this month about the astronomical economic cost of Florida's awful gun violence laws.

But 18 Republicans voted against it over objections to gun control measures they believe violate the Second Amendment.

Its amazing how we argue against something deemed to help our citizens, yet if a gun control bill was up for debate people would be in arms (pun intended) about their right to own guns.

Thank you Bob Costas for speaking up for responsible gun control and for finally taking a stand against the completeIDIOTS seeking to destroy our nation with their fascist ideology.

This means engaging the issue of gun control must be directed toward stopping violence today — not primarily toward defending against a potential future where certain freedoms might be more restricted.

If you're on the right, you might insert «assault rifle» and use that logic to help argue against any new gun control — even in the wake of Parkland and Las Vegas (and Columbine, and Aurora, and Virginia Tech, and San Bernardino, and Sandy Hook, and Sutherland Springs, and Orlando, and on and on).

Gun buffs once more fired off a round of dour warnings against hasty action, while newspaper editors resurrected their stock columns calling for gun control.

And I have seen you post before against assault rifles and for more gun control, unless I got posters confused, which I don't think I did.

The «pro life republicans that the catholic church supports is against reasonable gun control.

«In my world, you don't get to call yourself «pro-life» and be against common - sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater.

Some may point to the fact that Chelsea only had 3 but if you assess the situation, Chelsea were never going to come out guns blazing at Arsenal, Chelsea thrive on controlling the game and counter attacks, having a free flowing game of attacking football is in Arsenal's best interest not Chelsea's and as such they would do everything to break up the play, seek for one off opportunities to get a goal and or get goals from set pieces and it worked like a charm against us.

But the Democratic - controlled Senate voted against legislation pushed by the president that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases to gun shows and online sales.

Examples of this include gun control laws, SEC / stock market regulation, environmental regulations, laws against smoking, drinking, behavior, etc..

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

Lawmakers will return to Washington today facing intense public pressure to break their decades - long gridlock on gun control, a demand fortified by a bipartisan group of governors calling for Congress to take action to protect against mass shootings.

The amendments, though voted down, come as Republicans in the state Senate have signaled support for possible gun control legislation, which could include making it harder for those deemed too dangerous to obtain a firearm and closing up loopholes in the prohibition against people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from keeping and obtaining guns.

Cuomo — who has also vowed to work against the re-election of Faso and a half - dozen other Republican members of Congress who oppose gun control measures — said Faso's personal «no» vote on did not get him off the hook.

Mr. Brindisi, a well - regarded member of a younger, progressive bloc of Democrats in Albany, noted that he had publicly criticized the Cuomo administration's economic development plans, and had voted against the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control bill that has been a galvanizing issue for the governor's opponents upstate.

He voted against New York's gun control laws, known as the SAFE Act, and allowing medical marijuana.

He sent a letter to Donald Trump about gun control, held a conference call with Sen. Amy Klobuchar about election security, rallied with Al Gore against offshore drilling and, of course, started picking on de Blasio again.