Sentences with phrase «caused by gun»

As a law enforcement professional who has seen the human pain and suffering caused by gun violence up close and personal, I join every clear thinking individual who shares the same concerns we all have.

It was not caused by Christians and it was not caused by guns (which are completely illegal there) or by the existence of whatever materials he used.

As we mourn tragedy after tragedy caused by guns, New York City must take a powerful stand against companies that contribute to carnage and violence across our nation.

Public Advocate Letitia James Supports Call for Divestment from Assault Weapon Manufacturers As we mourn tragedy after tragedy caused by guns, New York City must take a powerful stand against companies that contribute to carnage and violence across our nation.

We must put an end to the violence causes by guns.»

Thomas Klapotke and researchers at Munich University are even developing «green explosives» in an attempt to reduce pollution caused by guns and rockets.

Those are factors, yes, but the United States is facing an epidemic caused by guns — one that can be prevented but is constantly encouraged by those who value dollars over lives.

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Smith & Wesson's revenue forecast did not reflect any potential surge in demand caused by consumers worried about increased gun control, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Buchanan said on a conference call.

Added to this was a strong belief that wars were caused, not by sneaky politicians and generally reinforced by politically motivated mass hysteria, but rather by so - called capitalists, the manufacturers of guns and munitions.

This is, by far, gun violence, by far the leading cause of death for young African - American men outstripping the next nine causes of death combined.

Later Tuesday, the Broward Sheriff's Office filed a petition for a «temporary risk protection order» under the state's new gun law, identifying Zachary Cruz as someone who «poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself or others by having a firearm.»

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program.

How many times, for example, have you heard economists insist that the US trade deficit was «caused» by the fact that Americans refuse to save, or, even more foolishly, that «no one held a gun to the American consumer's head and forced him to buy that flat - screen TV»?

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program and other legal changes.

In 2013, our gun - related deaths included 21,175 suicides, 11,208 homicides and 505 deaths caused by accidental discharge.

The NRA takes no responsibility for the deaths and injuries caused by the traffic in guns.

We've seen the unimaginable devastation caused by b ump stocks and other devices that turn legal firearms into lethal fully - automatic machine guns, and we can not allow that to happen in New York.

Reporting by a various agencies on Thursday, indicates Biden is looking at a mixture of «universal» background checks, additional research on the causes of gun violence and a similar ban on high capacity magazines as proposed for New York.

The resolution, drafted by Common Council Majority Leader and SUNY New Paltz professor of American history Rennie Scott - Childress, runs nearly 800 words and includes statistics and statements on the causes and toll of mass shootings and other forms of gun violence.

«Instead, we should be addressing the root causes of gun violence by reducing the number of guns on our streets, limiting access to these deadly weapons and increasing mental health services to ensure the kind of healthy environment that will allow kids to grow and thrive.

On his website, Mr. Ashby called the state's SAFE Act, a package of gun - control laws, a «sickening display of ignorance,» while Ms. Doran wrote on her Facebook page that she «refuses to stand by as mass shootings cause immeasurable heartache.»

AAAS calls for a better understanding of the root causes of gun violence by freeing up research funding for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A 2002 study supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation concluded that guns are «the second leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 19 ″ — second only to motor vehicle accidents — killing or injuring 20,000 each year.

Deaths caused by accidental drug overdoses in the US now exceed those from motor vehicle incidents and guns.

Although the paper suggests that increased gun «exposure» caused the spike in accidental deaths, she says the authors don't grapple with what they mean, precisely, by exposure.

Chang's team addressed those limitations by making a new kind of bacterial «gun - for - hire» that can sense an infection, swim toward it and kill off the disease - causing microbes.

Another statistic that Shermer notes is that in «states that prohibit gun ownership by men who have received a domestic violence restraining order, gun - caused homicides of intimate female partners have been reduced by 25 percent.»

[C] onduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.The Secretary shall begin by identifying the most pressing research questions with the greatest potential public health impact, and by assessing existing public health interventions being implemented across the nation to prevent gun violence.

He's a man of the gun and of the bottle, traumatized by war — although that experience only sharpens, rather than causes, his bitter contempt for the Aboriginals.

In fact Just Cause 2 debatably only really came alive when not taking part in formal missions, which are by most accounts rinse and repeat, «fetch this case filled with guns», «shoot this nasty person», «blow up this base», pro-forma mayhem which doesn't always satisfy.

Veterans Staunton, Nighy and Considine are ably supported by a fine cast, particularly Schnetzer (the button - eyed co-star of «The Book Thief» serves up revolutionary fervor and a Morrissey pompadour with equal conviction) and Jessica Gunning as a miner's wife who finds her voice fighting not just for the strike but also for LGSM's right to visibly rally for the workers» cause.

This assembly addresses the gun epidemic in the USA, by looking at: - The history of guns in the USA - The causes of the gun problem - The NRA - Trump and the Republican party And causes for optimism for the future.

However, when we end up with an over tighten nut, a breaker bar can cause more damage compare to a similar rotational force created by a four - way or torque gun.

Traumatic injuries for pets and military dogs include car accidents, falls from high elevations, biting or crushing wounds, as well as injuries caused by weapons such as guns, knives or explosions.

Vets see shocking injuries caused to cats by air guns, so we want to see better enforcement of animal welfare legislation and urge the police and local authorities to take action where they can.»

«Our corals have also been destroyed by storms, anchor drops, overfishing and compressor spare gun fishing,» she said, «not to mention El Nino in 1997 - 1998 that caused bleaching.»

They went on to say: «similiar injuries can be caused by many other weapons, including shotguns, high - calibre revolvers, sniper rifles, assault rifles, rocket launchers, laser guns and grenades»

FlatOut 4 delivers a good number of game modes too: by racing variations you've got the pure race mode, the assault mode where guns become available to make the race even chaotic, the carnage mode in which you gain points by causing as much damage as possible, and two variations of time attack.

Picking up power - ups dropped by enemies will increase the number of gun pods that hover around the player, providing for a comical amount of firepower occupying screen at at any given time (so much that it causes significant framerate drops).

An iconic feature of the game is the method by which the members of SEES release their Personas: by firing an Evoker, a gun - like object, at their head, which does no damage but causes sufficient emotional stress to cause the Persona to appear.»

Perhaps if gun industry spokespeople had a history of claiming their products can't cause harm, or that what appear to be bullet holes in people are actually caused by cosmic rays, sunspots, volcanoes, internal forcing, or other natural phenomena, the courts might rule differently.

As for the alleged irrefutable evidence that people caused the last century's CO2 increase, the «smoking gun» invoked by one of my critics, Dr. Michael Mann, and his fellow fearmongers at realclimate.com, the claim is based on the idea that the normal ratio of heavy to light carbon — that is, the carbon - 13 isotope to the lighter carbon - 12 isotope, is roughly 1 to 90 in the atmosphere, but in plants there's a 2 percent lower C13 / C12 ratio.

It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

Professor Murry Salby's lecture carries this two steps further in a) postulating an alternate hypothesis for natural changes in atmospheric CO2 levels and b) effectively falsifying the claim that C12 / C13 isotope measurements provide «smoking gun proof» for the postulation that increased CO2 levels are being caused by human emissions.

If you have been injured in a gun accident caused by a defective firearm anywhere in the nation, contact Monsees & Mayer P.C. today to discuss your situation.

$ 500,000 — Premises Liability — mediated settlement for the wrongful death of a child caused by an employee of a gun club on the premises of the gun club because the gun club failed to adequately perform a background check on the employee who was known to have violent tendencies.

In the first of seven installments, Adams the young lawyer takes on an unpopular cause by agreeing to defend the British soldiers accused of gunning down American colonists in the Boston Massacre.

The injuries sustained in Chrisholm were attributed to a drive - by shooting, and the court held that gun shots from an unknown assailant were the direct cause of the impairment, and not the use of his car.

If you are injured by a nail gun as a result of negligence, an unsafe work environment, defective equipment or any other cause, reach out to a personal injury attorney to represent you.

Later Tuesday, the Broward Sheriff's Office filed a petition for a «temporary risk protection order» under the state's new gun law, identifying Zachary Cruz as someone who «poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself or others by having a firearm.»