Sentences with phrase «better gun control laws»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made gun control a signature issue for him following the shooting at Connecticut elementary school, said he would back additional gun control efforts, but insisted the SAFE Act remained the best gun control law in the country.

I take the SAFE act to be equal parts political opportunism, slapdash lawmaking and a genuine desire to get guns away from dangerous people: good gun control laws yes, the SAFE act, not so much.

Not exact matches

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

And the research about the effectiveness of gun controls laws seems mixed at best.

Gun control advocates help and enable these homicidal maniac killers, because they take the guns away from the good, law

Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns believes the pact might be too good to be true, because New York still hasn't worked out all the kinks in its own gun control law, the SAFE Act.

After she was picked to replace Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy on the ticket, Hochul said she backed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control law — the SAFE Act — as well as the Dream Act, which provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

I think Bloomy could have found much better uses for $ 100,000 than going to AZ to see how well they enforce their gun control laws.

He's in favor of abortion rights adn gun control: maybe they will throw him Health and Human Services, but, since there is no chance of the GOP winning in 2012, he had better concentrate on his farm in Peekskill and his law practice.

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.

And you're right; the Law Makers that jumped on the «feel good» legislation of more gun control will pay the price with their constituency during the next election.

(GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino said better mental health systems — not tougher gun control laws — were needed to combat mass shootings, but he has slashed funding and staffing for such services since taking office as Westchester county executive in 2010, budget figures show.)

GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino said better mental health systems — not tougher gun control laws — were needed to combat mass shootings, but he has slashed funding and staffing for such services since taking office as Westchester county executive in 2010, budget figures show.

Republicans contend Cuomo's involvement in the race, however, could hurt Fiala given the opposition in upstate communities to his gun control law as well as the controversy over a ban on hydrofracking in the state.

The MOU has done little to assuage the concerns of some gun - rights advocates, who have pushed for a full repeal of the law — a prospect that is unlikely given the Democratic control of the Assembly as well as the governorship.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is being criticized by a good - government group and rank - and - file lawmakers for rushing his gun control law through secret meetings to make New York the first state to enact a measure since the Newtown, Conn., tragedy.

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.

She argued that her vote actually puts her in a better position to negotiate with her colleagues about «common sense amendments» that should be made to the gun control law.

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.

And remember this, since Sandy Hook, when we passed our gun control law, we have had fewer gun deaths in the state of New York thanks to your good work.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal appeals court upholding the constitutionality of the SAFE Act as well as Connecticut's post-Newtown gun control law, Uber fighting to bring ride sharing into the Capital Region, and New Yorkers found to overwhelmingly prefer dogs to cats.

Moss is best known in statewide political circles for his opposition to the SAFE Act, the 2013 gun control law pushed by Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo.

When asked to name one thing that could be done to prevent U.S. school shootings, 33 percent named gun control or stricter gun laws, the most popular response; 22 percent cited bans on specific guns; 19 percent suggested enhanced mental health services; 15 percent favored «better school security.»

Young people around the country have been doing anti-violence work for years, but the February 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, thrust their calls for better gun - control laws and mental health services into the national spotlight.

As students walked out of schools across the country Wednesday to protest gun violence, a Senate hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland, Fla., man accused of killing 17 people at a high school, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.