Sentences with phrase «back against gun»

(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.

Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.

Not exact matches

After winning nine games in a row before the draw against Chelsea and the ball - busting defeat to Swansea, Arsenal must be gunning to bounce back in style this weekend to guarantee our place in the Top Three.

It's a sad state of affairs when we have to go all the wayyyy back to the beginning of the season to remember our Guns Blazing against a Chelsea side who where at an experimental stage with their new manager and formation.

Alexis has been deployed as the center forward for much of the season following the unavailability of the two confirmed strikers (Giroud and Perez) but with the forward back in the mix and gunning for goals he might likely retain his place in the starting line - up, fresh from a midweek hat - trick against Basel.

Thus, going into Saturday's clash against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, expect Arsenal to come out all guns blazing and look to get back to winning ways, after losing and drawing their last two Premier League games against Chelsea and Hull City respectively.

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.

In a 5 to 4 decision those justices ruled that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to own guns for personal self - defense, despite the amendment's opening language - «A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,» - which pretty clearly says that gun ownership was specifically preserved by the founding fathers in the interest of the common defense against a tyrannical government (remember, this was the issue on their minds back then).

Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC put $ 6 million in ads behind Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey for his leadership on gun control legislation after the Newtown shooting and punished New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte for voting against it with $ 8.5 million in ads backing her opponent, Gov. Maggie Hassan — while Bloomberg donated another $ 1 million to Planned Parenthood Votes to further boost Hassan.

«The Governor is a progressive champion who has led the way on education, gun safety reform, and fighting back against the destructive policies of the Trump Administration in Washington.

I stand today not just with our legislators, but everyone who is working to push back against the scourge of gun violence in our nation.»

For every genuinely insightful former minister spilling the beans on what really went on at the heart of government, there are countless others who use their freedom from office to machine - gun former rivals, rail against the bungling bureaucrats who held them back from true greatness — or treat readers to a chronological account of every ministerial visit they made to various box factories around the country.

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence is backing a bill that McQuillen said could help prevent some gun deaths in the future.

The part the Dems are particularly interested in comes at the tail end of the report, highlighting a lawsuit brought against Grimm back in the summer of 2000 by a former NYPD officer who claimed Grimm brandished a gun and misused his FBI authority after getting into an argument with another man over a woman (Grimm's date, the man's estanged wife).

Though some Stoneman Douglas students have defended him, critics have piled on Peterson since, including the National Rifle Association, which has pointed at his inaction to push back against proposals to tighten gun laws.

Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, backed the gun control package, which expanded background checks on gun purchases and limited the size of ammunition magazines, that passed the legislature earlier this year.

Producer Yuji Korekado has worked on the series since Metal Gear Solid and pushed back against Kojima during the production of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Another password - only demon, Alciel has some drawbacks - he's weak to physical and gun attacks, and you won't want to put him up against any Expel - users - but he has stamina and HP enough to survive the hits and the Counter skill to dish them right back.

When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane decides to grab a gun and take matters into her own hands.

Wary of this mysterious man but impressed with the way he gunned down his aggressors, the locals decide to hire him to protect them against three desperadoes who were arrested in Lago and have sworn to come back for revenge.

In Michoacán, in response to his neighbors being gunned down and beheaded — an atrocity he photographed with his camera as proof of his enemies» barbarism — Dr. José Mireles sought to fight back against his community's oppressors by creating the Autodefensas, a vigilante group that took up arms against the cartels.

She knew the bank teller's name, and she spoke it clearly as she pulled out her gun and pressed it against the small of the woman's back.

This piece from the Chicago Tribune suggests publishers fight back, guns blazing, against the onslaught of e-reader advertising with their own ad campaigns.

In this Twitter thread, the IGDA (Independent Game Developers Association) pushed back against this unfounded causal relationship, vowing that videogames won't become scapegoats for gun violence.

The majority of the mechanics have been stripped back significantly since Guns Of The Patriots, which works both against and in Ground Zeroes» favour.

Still more political garbage: The Sun Sentinel's Anthony Man reports that a gun - control group backed by former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is now running an attack ad against Gov. Rick Scott.

-- NRA responds: The National Rifle Association went on the offensive in its first public response to the Stoneman Douglas massacre, pushing back against law enforcement officials, the media, gun - control advocates and the teenage survivors of the massacre who have pleaded for stricter gun laws.

The march in Washington, in my view, became not a march against arms but a political rant against President Trump backed by Hollywood bigwigs — especially in signing up voters since it was suppose to be about guns and gun violence.

Why do we wait until our backs are against the wall and a gun is pointed at our heads before we wake up and decide to do something about it?