Sentences with phrase «fewer guns in the hands»

Lacking a consensus on gun control, lawmakers have in recent years at least tried to put fewer guns in the hands of criminals and more in the hands of law - abiding citizens.

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Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shootGuns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shootguns and began shooting.

If some of those lying dead in the street had exercised a right to defend themselves with a gun in their own hands... the madman would be lying dead with far fewer bodies.

One thing I know for sure — if I had been the one facing the shooter with a gun in his hand and had some time (perhaps even a few seconds) to think about it, I would have been praying to God to help me, to make me live, because in the end, that's what we all want.

I grew up a few miles from here and lived with a rod or gun in my hand, but I remember the day I stopped hunting.

The US only has a few hundred million guns in private hands.

Gumby, surfers, penises, Batman and Robin, naked ladies with machine guns, Diamond Dogs - era David Bowie, bats and skulls, Charles Manson, dancers in polka dot dresses: These are a few of the motifs that crop up in Forgetting the Hand, a show of collaborative works by artists Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner Gallery.