Sentences with phrase «earlier calls for gun control»

Instead, those earlier calls for gun control were demonized, obfuscated and ignored, something the victims of the Parkland shootings are beginning to experience.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Earlier, Rep. Jerry Nadler called for stronger gun - control laws on the federal level in a statement.