Sentences with phrase «anger over guns»

EXCLUSIVE: Teacher talks about colleagues who lost their lives & his anger over guns in schools.

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This reevaluation comes as public anger over political inaction on gun control shifts toward the American companies that profit from gun sales.

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

Skelos's approach to deal making with Cuomo, as well as a five - member bloc of Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference, angered grassroots conservative voters in New York, who were especially upset over the gun control legislation passing the chamber.

The GOP this year is banking on a large upstate turn out, counting on anger over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act, as well his the delay on making a decision over hydrofracking, as key issues that will bring voters outside of New York City to the polls.

The still roiling anger over Cuomo's push of the gun control law the SAFE Act through the Legislature could well translate into support upstate for Astorino, though sportsmen and gun enthusiasts have not been known to vote in big numbers in the past.

In the Senate, a string of Democrats introduced hostile amendments, trying to force a vote on issues — like gun control and early voting — that had fallen out of budget negotiations in recent days, and their remarks mixed anger over the lack of action with wisecracks about the late hour.

The passage of the stricter gun control bill has angered many and Skelos was criticized publicly at the rally in Albany last Thursday, that drew over five thousand people, for bringing the bill to the floor for a vote.

One gets the sense that some of the vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover from the general public anger over how many measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.