Sentences with phrase «by the gun group»
On the eve of the march, Colion Noir, a host on NRATV, an online video channel produced by the gun group, lashed out at the Parkland students, saying that «no one would know your names» if someone with a weapon had stopped the gunman at their school.
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A working group led by Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering measures that would require universal background checks for gun buyers and track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database, the newspaper said.
In other tweets, Pwn All The Things also pointed to a smoking gun to show a series of hacks targeting U.S. political figures was carried out by the same group, dispelling the suggestion that the DNC hacks could have been carried out by a 14 - year - old or any other single individual.
A disability rights groups in Texas wants to make sure people who've been disabled by gun violence in Texas get a chance to talk to lawmakers.
They were part of a group of 200 people from Stoneman Douglas, in Parkland, Fla., who were sponsored by Giffords, the gun control advocacy group, to come to the Washington march.
Sitting with a group of Democrats and Republicans, including some who are backed by the NRA, Trump made what sounded like an extraordinary break with the powerful gun - rights organization.
After that massacre, the N.R.A. said it supported a national ban on bump stocks, an extremely rare gun control endorsement by the group.
Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.
* DEMS LAUNCH GUN ADS AIMED AT SUBURBANITES: NBC News reports that the gun regulation group run by Gabrielle Giffords is launching ads going after Republicans in the Nevada Senate race and multiple House races.
Despite threats that the city will be sued by gun advocate groups like the NRA, lawmakers in LA are placing a restriction on high - capacity firearms.
She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.
Geoffrey Canada is a teacher who came up against the most - difficult - to - educate group of kids a teacher can face: kids who grew up in poverty, with broken homes, surrounded by drugs and guns and alcohol.
It is not negotiating at gun point, with a group with questionable motives, fired by hideous political conspiracies.
Niou cited Kavanagh's «vast amount of state government experience,» including his efforts as part of a group spearheaded by former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg to push for gun control.
«The mass shooting in Parkland, Florida — the 18th at a school this year alone — lays bare the all - too - tragic reality that all face: we are not doing enough to keep violent weapons out of the hands of those who are a threat and danger to public safety,» said Gounardes, referring to a statistic on school shootings by the Everytown gun control group that has been disputed as inaccurate.
«This is the latest evidence that Anthony Brindisi is a phony Albany politician who claims to represent law - abiding gun owners when in reality, he is backed by a gun control group and votes to fund Cuomo's unconstitutional SAFE Act.
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 New York State Rifle and Pistol Association calls for gun owners to vote against the Convention because it «will be run by New York City special interest groups.»
She is a vocal supporter of gun control legislation through the group, I Demand a Plan, a gun control group endorsed by several hundred mayors across America.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the group started by Bloomberg, will hold a rally tomorrow on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to support background check legislation.
Washington (CNN)-- The group formed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to pressure political candidates to come out publicly in support of some gun control measures.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to take firearms away from those convicted of domestic violence was backed Thursday by Giffords, the gun control group founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.
Gun groups exert power on politicians by having huge mailing lists of «single - issue voters» who will vote against anyone who wants to pass gun control.
LaPierre's attack is an instant fundraising tool for a governor who has made gun control a front - and - center issue for him in a blue state where there's little downside, by and large, to drawing the ire of the gun - rights group.
Dueling ads on gun rights by the National Rifle Association and a group backed by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have joined the onslaught of campaign advertising in Virginia's elections this year.
Berman was once a senior adviser to Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group established by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The Republican said he joined the group started by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg because he believes the enforcement of existing gun laws is preferable to creating new gun laws.
Common Sense Connecticut, a group funded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords» national gun control Super PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions, has spent nearly $ 745,000 in the state this year.
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.
Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.
Proponents of expanding background checks for gun purchases formally kicked off a campaign in Maine — one of two key national races this year pitting a group co-founded by billionaire former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg as a response to mass shootings in 2014 against the group it was meant to target — the NRA.
Two groups funded in part by billionaire ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg are set to rally for gun - law reforms outside City Hall in Lower Manhattan on Saturday.
Instead of fighting to repeal the entire set of stricter gun laws, a bi-partisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation to chip away at parts of the Safe Act that have proved hard to enforce, been rejected by a federal court, and, in one case, has not been implemented yet.
The gun - control group founded by former NYC Mayor Bloomberg will begin surveying all midterm elections candidates on gun issues as it tries to become a political counterweight to the NRA.
Parents in Nigeria have been alerted to presence of a new mobile Application that has been developed by the terrorists group ISIS to train children on the use of guns.
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a group founded by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, looked at gun incidents in New York and found the overall economic cost exceeds a whopping $ 5.6 billion a year.
The gun control group founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal for those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to lose their guns.
Everytown for Gun Safety, a group backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has launched an ad campaign urging Georgia's Republican governor to veto legislation allowing guns on college campuses.
Brooklyn Sen. Martin Golden, a former city cop, plans to introduce legislation stiffening penalties against people who plant so - called community guns — weapons hidden in key locations for use by groups of gang members and other criminals.
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.
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The group aims to deter gun violence and street crime in North Shore neighborhoods by mentoring young men and patrolling neighborhoods.
«The vast majority of our shootings and our gun violence in the city of Syracuse is attributed to gangs and gun violence by groups,» Trudell said.
Cuomo has appeared at rallies with students against gun violence and promoted an early voting rally that was held by the liberal Indivisible group.
Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg says he will match donations to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group he founded, after the national debate over gun laws was reignited by the Las Vegas shooting.
Captain Maxwell A. Mahama was lynched on Monday May 29 by irate youth of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region on suspicion that he was an armed robber, after a group of people spotted a gun on him.
Dueling ads on gun rights by the National Rifle Association and a group backed by New York Mayor Bloomberg have joined the onslaught of campaign ads in Virginia's elections this year.
This event was pushed hard by the Tea Party and activist Rus Thompson and the gun rights group Shooters Committee on Political Education.
A change.org petition called the gun - free zone inside the Quicken Loans Arena an «affront to the Second Amendment» and has been signed by over 55,000 people — although it was largely a satire by liberal groups to shed a spotlight on the issue of gun control.
There was deep overlap between the attendees, Tea Party groups and other dissatisfied conservatives whose anger with state politics was forged by Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, the SAFE Act.