Sentences with phrase «for gun safety legislation»

Porter also criticized her colleagues who've said that lawmakers should listen to the Stoneman Douglas students who took buses to Tallahassee and lobbied for gun safety legislation.

The students also delivered thank you cards to legislators who have voted for gun safety legislation including the SAFE Act and Nicholas's Law child safety law.

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The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

Also at 11 a.m., Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, lawmakers who are members of New York Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, and gun safety advocates to hold joint press conference calling for commonsense gun violence prevention legislation, LCA Room, LOB, Room 130, Albany.

Abbey Fashouer, a spokeswoman for Cuomo's re-election campaign, has said the governor's progressive record is «unmatched,» including helping to raise New York's minimum wage, and pushing for gun - safety legislation and the legalization of same - sex marriage.

(Albany, NY)-- New York State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon today joined advocates including New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, the New York Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, along with other legislators, to form a coalition supporting legislation (S7133 / A8976) that would establish a new court - issued order of protection to reduce gun violence.

Murphy held a round - table talk earlier this week on gun legislation and has repeatedly called for enacting what he calls common sense gun safety measures.

«Rather than wait for the federal government to come to its senses and pass responsible gun safety legislation, New York is joining with New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island to take matters into our own hands.

She said Cuomo has delivered for progressives by raising New York's minimum wage, pushing for gun - safety legislation and legalizing same - sex marriage in 2011, among other accomplishments.

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.

In recent years, Jackson has also worked closely with community groups to reduce the number of guns on city streets and advocating for stronger gun safety legislation.

Cuomo's campaign noted achievements like a $ 15 minimum wage, marriage equality, gun safety legislation, banning fracking, ending finger printing for food stamps and $ 27 billion in education funding.

For her part, Ms. Mayer, who has championed legislation on gun safety, voting rights and redressing sexual abuse, expressed skepticism of Ms. Killian's self - proclaimed centrist politics, saying she was trying to appeal to the county's leftward tilt in the age of Trump.

To start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislation.

Hogg, who has become a high - profile advocate for tighter gun safety legislation since the attack, said during the interview that: «I think it's disgusting, personally.

Although the makeshift memorial was a place of prayers, grieving and leaving behind respect for the victims, it was also a location in which both students and adults protested for a change in gun legislation and for better school safety.

The March for Our Lives, scheduled for Saturday, was organized by the students to continue the national conversation about gun safety and legislation in the U.S. and to put pressure on politicians to sign into law new measures to make large - scale acts of violence like what happened at their Parkland school less common and more difficult to replicate.

Go to the Sun Sentinel's Facebook page starting at 10 a.m. and follow along with live video as Stoneman Douglas students fight for school safety and tougher gun - control legislation.

The hearing is scheduled for March 14, 2018, and will focus on the reported failure of the FBI and law enforcement to follow up on red flags raised about the shooter, as well as school safety and possible gun legislation.

Explaining how his Orange Ribbons for Jaime foundation is working to promote gun safety legislation, Guttenberg said opponents were «messing with the wrong kids and the wrong dad.»

For years, many of us have proposed legislation that would take the necessary steps to address Florida's lack of gun safety measures.

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