Sentences with phrase «getting gun control»

This week's 25 - hour sit - in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives highlights the ongoing problem of getting gun control legislation through Congress.

Getting gun control legislation through Congress isn't impossible but it isn't easy.

And I stand by the statement that the 75 % state ratification requirement makes getting a gun control amendment impossible in the current climate.

Suffice to say, our President WILL get gun control, health care reform, and gay marriage — all providing civil rights just as President Lincoln would want.

«Let the Democrats say, «I'm going to shut down the government if we don't get a gun control law.»

Not exact matches

Obamaalso showed a «get - tough» strategy in his determination to pursue gun control after last month's massacre of schoolchildren by a gunman in Newtown, Connecticut.

Jean argued that Lisa, if in the real world, would try to get Cruz to change opposition to gun control.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

An eighth - grader emailed President Donald Trump asking for gun control — and he got a surprising response:

You can always get a certain percentage to say they are in favor of some gun controls.

Parkland gun control activist David Hogg does not appear bothered by being rejected by colleges, claiming that «amazing people don't get into college.»

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.»

U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, who endorsed a range of gun - control measures in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas school massacre, is getting a Republican primary challenger who pledges to «defend the Second Amendment» and serve as an «unwavering partner» to President Donald Trump.

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.

Republicans fall for it because the have no real connection with most Americans... the need it to get control of the country... Christians fall for it because they use the black and white issue of abortion and gay and lesbian marriage... while completely ignore the harvest field of the Muslim world because they have guns adn will kill you if yo uso much as fart while Muhammad is takign a dump... there's billion Muslims and very few Christians willin to go there... it's obvious a job for a million Christians a real million man and woman army willin gto die for Jesus Christ and stop talkign all the time about abortin abortion abortion and the gay thisn and anythinng else..

And I have seen you post before against assault rifles and for more gun control, unless I got posters confused, which I don't think I did.

You've got it, control by guns that is.

«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.

The last time our Party pushed this gun control horse * hit was in 1994, and you see what it got us, loss of the House AND Senate for 12 years.

As the debate about gun control reaches a fever pitch, the voices of humility, love and patience often get drowned.

In almost every case where guns are used to kill other people, either the people who do the shooting were using illegally - obtained guns anyway, and so better gun control wouldn't have stopped them from getting the guns in the first place, OR the people shooting the guns would have qualified to own guns by any proposed gun control standard.

So both sides are generally for background checks, they just choose to use completely different language when discussing it and everyone gets super defensive over mental health vs. gun control.

Some may point to the fact that Chelsea only had 3 but if you assess the situation, Chelsea were never going to come out guns blazing at Arsenal, Chelsea thrive on controlling the game and counter attacks, having a free flowing game of attacking football is in Arsenal's best interest not Chelsea's and as such they would do everything to break up the play, seek for one off opportunities to get a goal and or get goals from set pieces and it worked like a charm against us.

The ball control of Salah is getting better with every passing day and the way he is developing his game he will soon be in the radar of the European top guns in the next summer transfer window.

You get to jump on bounce houses again, build blanket forts, have water gun fights, drive remote control cars, catch lightning bugs and the list goes on.

The staunch opposition comes after Cuomo has been able to get the Senate GOP, now in a governing coalition with four independent Democrats, to hold votes on a variety of liberal causes, most recently the gun control law in January.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's message of necessity that skirts the three - day waiting period so lawmakers can pass his gun control legislation this week outlines what his office says is the immediate need to get the law in place.

But even though the 5 - 4 majority ruling makes an intellectual end run around the language of the Second Amendment to get to their ruling, they very clearly state that society (government, convened to collectively protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from as individuals) has the right to, and legitimate interest in controlling gun ownership, in several specific ways.

In 1996 John Howard managed to get all six Australian states to agree to and pass uniform sweeping gun control legislation in just 12 days.

Cuomo — who has also vowed to work against the re-election of Faso and a half - dozen other Republican members of Congress who oppose gun control measures — said Faso's personal «no» vote on did not get him off the hook.

The relationship between Gillibrand and Bloomberg got off to a bad start when the mayor released a statement questioning her record on one of his signature pet issues — gun control — in the wake of her selection by Gov. David Paterson to replace Hillary Clinton in the US Senate.

Cuomo has repeatedly said he believes his two biggest achievements since taking office in January 2011 were getting the divided Legislature to pass gay marriage and gun control.

It does not appear that either the NYPD or Crips, Bloods and Latin Kings have gotten the memo from the Governor Cuomo that New York is safer because of his gun control law.»

Maybe, but probably not, but if you get a higher minimum wage and paid family leave and free college and same - sex marriage and gun control and a fracking ban and the first reversal of harsh Rockefeller - era drug laws in four decades, who cares?

Ryan got extensive media coverage for staging a well - attended forum on gun control at the Kingston Library last week.

That you have to circumvent the committee process to get a vote on gun control in New York State,» said Hunter College public - affairs professor Joseph Viteritti.

We're also getting word that a gun control deal could be formally announced after the speech is done.

Washington (CNN)- The chief spokesman for the National Rifle Association is expected to get an invitation any day now to sit down at the Justice Department for talks aimed at reaching a consensus on new gun control legislation.

The mostly cordial first debate in the 2nd Congressional District race got personal when the topic of gun control came up, with U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney's Republican opponent criticizing him for taking part in a Democratic - led House sit - in to push for votes...

I would love to see the Democrats stand up and say, «we are going to shut down the government or threaten to shut down the government if we don't get real gun control legislation»,» said Cuomo.

I take the SAFE act to be equal parts political opportunism, slapdash lawmaking and a genuine desire to get guns away from dangerous people: good gun control laws yes, the SAFE act, not so much.

Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.

House Democrats demanded but didn't get a vote on gun control legislation despite an hours - long sit - in on the House floor.

He championed a $ 15 minimum wage and enacted a 12 - week paid family leave policy; got strict gun control into law; introduced a free (though imperfect) college tuition program for certain students; banned fracking; allocated $ 10 million for a defense fund for immigrants facing deportation; and raised the age for juvenile offenders to 18.

Bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting, could be banned if Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie get their way, but gun rights advocates say they'll pressure the GOPO - controlled state Senate to defeat the bill.

Lack of gun control oppresses this freedom because if some people can get guns, a person has to either also get a gun or will fear that he will be at a disavantage when confronted by another individual with a gun.

«We should all be grateful that we have got such tight gun control in this country — when you look at the States, it's awful over there,» Manchester police chief constable Peter Fahy told the Manchester Evening News.

The NRA «should put its money where its mouth is» and get behind President Obama's push for existing gun control laws to be enforced, US Sen. Chuck Schumer said.

DEVELOPING: SENATOR STILL TRYING TO FIND VOTES FOR BACKGROUND CHECKS... Behind - the - scenes dealing over reviving stalled gun control legislation will get a push next week when Sen. Joe Manchin, a strong proponent of expanding background checks, plans to meet individually with lawmakers, a Senate source tells CNN.

Lawyers for Skelos tried to focus the judge on the senator's accomplishments, which they included as his help in getting passed — over considerable GOP opposition over the years — sweeping gun control laws and the 2011 same - sex marriage statute.