Sentences with phrase «calling for gun control of»

I can not believe the absolute NERVE of any christian calling for gun control of any kind, not after they have slaughtered millions over the centuries in the name of Jesus.

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But following a string of mass shootings and nationwide calls for gun control in recent weeks, Bumble is setting plans in motion to ban images of firearms for its nearly 30 million users.

Bloomberg has also become arguably the nation's leading gun - control advocate, spending millions of his own fortune to finance candidates and groups that call for the restriction of firearms.

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High - profile technology executives have called for increased gun control in the wake of the shooting at YouTube's headquarters that left at least three people injured and the suspect shooter dead.

Technology CEOs including Apple's Tim Cook and Microsoft's Satya Nadella sent out messages of support, but some went further and called for stricter gun control.

The walkout, «Stand for the Second,» is a response to the March 14 National School Walkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The walk out was part of Will Riley's «Stand for the Second» event; a nationwide call to counter nonstop gun control campaigns with a walkout in support of the Second Amendment and our founding principles.

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment to allow for significant gun control legislation.

As Parkland gun control activists and their surrogates mock the idea of arming teachers, march for gun bans in D.C., and call for new gun controls via Twitter, they risk driving Americans toward the Second Amendment instead of away from it.

Country star Jason Aldean is calling for more gun control in the form of background checks, claiming that «it's too easy to get guns.»

Survivors have taken to social media to make loud calls for gun control, which have been met with abuse and the spread of misinformation about the teenagers online.

Renewed calls for gun control haven't had the effect of boosting gun stock prices.

Those calling attention to the disparity in reactions have also highlighted the work of the Dream Defenders, a Florida - based group founded after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012, arguing that it helped pave the way for the current student movement for gun control.

Many conservatives have been critical of the Parkland survivors» political and policy beliefs, which isn't too surprising given that the survivors have called for gun control measures that conservatives are opposed to.

The madcap meeting with Trump on guns, which was meant to add clarity and more urgency to the debate, instead saw the president undermining the importance of «due process,» calling for «comprehensive» gun control, and even humoring the idea of an assault weapons ban — all somewhat unexpected positions for a GOP president to hold.

One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.

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.

«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.

CNN: Religious leaders launch campaign for gun control With the bells of the Washington National Cathedral ringing 28 times — honoring all those killed in last week's Connecticut shooting — a broad group of religious leaders on Friday called on their congregations, the White House and Congress to do more to combat gun violence.

Proudly calling himself the National Rifle Association's «Public Enemy No. 1,» U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged congressional Republican leaders top listen to the «millions and millions» of March for Our Lives protesters by introducing gun - control legislation.

While at Mar - a-Lago over the long weekend, Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss the Republican Party's agenda, as calls grow for both the administration and Congress to take action on gun control in the wake of a deadly shooting at a nearby Florida high school.

Democrats in the state Legislature are calling for a new package of gun - control laws in the wake of the school shootings earlier this month in Florida.

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.

Sen. Cory Booker, D - N.J., joins Senate Democrats in calling for stricter gun control legislation in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Orlando last week.

Democratic challengers in some of this year's most competitive races are appealing to Americans» fears about terrorism to broach gun control, specifically by calling out Republican incumbents for not backing New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King's bill, first introduced nine years ago, to prevent people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called it «disgusting» there was no meaningful push for gun control on the federal level in the wake of a Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 59 people.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement on Sunday called for expanding background checks for gun purchases — embracing a specific gun control measure in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida that killed 17 people last month.

(CNN)- Days after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, demands from the public and lawmakers for tougher gun control legislation were met by President Barack Obama's call for a re-examination of the country's gun laws.

ALBANY — Thousands of gun rights supporters rallied outside New York's Capitol Tuesday to call for the repeal of gun control measures championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which they intend to use as a rallying cry in the fall elections.

ALBANY — Thousands of gun rights supporters rallied outside New York's Capitol Tuesday to call for the repeal of gun control measures championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which they intend...

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

She said she was most proud of fighting for the so - called Safe Act, a gun - control law that New York enacted after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a process known as fracking.

In both cities, the call from survivors of the Parkland massacre last month is for Congress to pass stricter gun control laws and to end gun violence.

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.

ALBANY - Democrats in the state Legislature are calling for a new package of gun - control laws in the wake of the school shootings earlier this month in Florida.

America's worst shooting massacre prompted the same sort of reactions from local members of Congress as all other such tragedies have, with Democrats calling for additional gun - control measures and Republicans resisting and blaming the Democratic president for a perceived inability to confront and control terrorism.

Drawing a stark contrast between herself and Trump and renewing her calls for stricter gun control in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton declared that «weapons of war have no place on our streets.»

A coalition of influential gun control advocates joined forces to call for legislation that would make it easier to keep guns away from dangerous individuals.

ALBANY — A coalition of influential gun control advocates joined forces Wednesday to call for legislation that would make it easier to keep guns away from dangerous individuals.

In the same place where the gay rights movement began, outside of the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling for tougher gun control laws.

He did not mention criminal justice reform, a central focus of his earlier speech in Manhattan, won his loudest applause when mentioning the gun control law — the SAFE Act — that drew protesters to the windy green outside the History Museum and called for a minimum wage increase.

Days later, a New York Times editorial called for stronger gun control laws in response to the murders, pointing to the ease with which Ferguson obtained a handgun in California, which had one of the country's stricter gun laws at the time.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Only days after calling for an overhaul of gun control in New York following the Connecticut school shooting, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a tough proposal on gun control is ready to become law.

But the election of President Donald Trump in 2016, and the corresponding anti-Trump fever, and the #metoo movement, calls for stricter gun control, the opposition to the Trump tax cuts which also included a cut in the state and local tax deduction, and a tax increase for many in Westchester, have all hurt Republicans and helped Democrats in Westchester.

Cuomo, who successfully advocated for the passage of gun control legislation after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, called for «real action» following the most recent school shooting.

PLATTSBURGH Over 150 people marched in Plattsburgh last Saturday to show their support for victims of the recent mass - shooting in Parkland, Florida and call for stricter gun control measures.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday to call for tougher gun - control laws in an event underwritten by former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Cuomo, who supports the microstamping of bullet casings, wouldn't say which gun control measures he would push for on the state level in a news conference earlier today, though he called a provision in the state's ban on assault weapons that grandfathers in high - capacity ammunition magazines manufactured before the ban took effect a loophole in the law.