Sentences with phrase «gun control activists»

He said his administration is starting a website to connect student gun control activists with their elected officials.

On March 28, Parkland gun control activist David Hogg launched a campaign to pressure Laura Ingraham sponsors to abandon the Fox News host.

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

Some of Hollywood biggest and most vocal stars took to social media on Thursday to bash Fox news Host Laura Ingraham after she issued an apology to Parkland shooting survivor - turned gun control activist David Hogg.

Not left wing gun control activists using 17 yr kids in the wake of a horrible tragedy?»

Hayes» emergence comes after several high - profile recruits on both sides of the aisle have passed on the race, including Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden, two nationally - known gun control activists who both lost children in the Sandy Hook school shootings and were urged by national Democrats to run.

Just one week after the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard which left 12 dead, Congressman Charles Rangel; Geoffrey Eaton, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Mid-Manhattan Branch; Jackie Rowe - Adams, co-founder of Harlem Mothers SAVE; Daniel Maree, founder of the Million Hoodies Movement; members of the Newtown Action Alliance and the Campaign to Unload; and other gun control activists gathered on Tues., Sept 24th.

From there, the students will turn their attention to March 24, when gun control activists nationwide will participate in the March for Our Lives in Washington.

Just days after the massacre that left 17 of their classmates and teachers dead, student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have become prominent gun control activists.

In regard to Fred Grimm's Sunday column «Far right attacks Parkland gun control activists with smears, lies,» wouldn't it be fair to say that the smears and lies started from the students» side?

Prosecutors would have to persuade a judge to block the transaction permanently, a bar Democrats and gun control activists say is too high.

On Tuesday, facing rising political heat after the Parkland massacre, Trump, as he often does, blamed his predecessors for a lack of action and said he would be different, despite widespread skepticism among gun control activists about his sincerity and capacity to make the case for change.

Civil rights activist Johnetta Elzie notes that white gun control activists emerged from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting in February with corporate sponsors — while black activists are left looking in from the outside.

Actress and gun control activist Alyssa Milano has launched a petition demanding that Vice President Mike Pence skip the NRA's upcoming annual meetings.

Parkland gun control activist Delaney Tarr, Liberian Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, restaurant workers» activist Saru Jayaraman, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi were some of the other big highlights.

Background checks for gun sales shattered a record in March while celebrities and Parkland gun control activists pushed for more restrictions on Second Amendment rights.

Actors Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore are showing their support for student gun control activists by penning «excuse» letters for those who walked out of class on Friday support of gun control and to protest gun violence.

The agreement does not, however, include a ban on semiautomatic firearms modeled after military assault weapons or a limit on ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, two provisions many gun control activists had wanted.

Last week, Republican Steven Rhoads, a personal attorney and local firefighter, defeated Democratic former Hempstead Town Board Member and gun control activist Rita Kestenbaum to fill the Nassau County legislative seat vacated by Democrat Dave Denenberg.

In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shooting, for instance, gun control activists sent three trucks with billboard - style signs to drive through Miami, blaring out, «SLAUGHTERED IN SCHOOL / AND STILL NO GUN CONTROL?

The controversy between Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a 17 - year - old Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist whom she mocked on Twitter continues to make headlines.

Kingston began backtracking on Twitter, saying that «not only do I respect their right to protest & their resolve to look for answers, I admire it» and that's «why it's sad local gun control activists would hijack the tragedy to drive their own agenda.»

BY: Conor Beck CNN's «Reliable Sources» host and senior media correspondent Brian Stelter admitted on Monday that he didn't correct young gun control activist David Hogg on his show.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior, who has transformed into a highly visible gun control activist following the deadly shooting at his Florida school, mentioned in an interview that he was not accepted by four University of California schools.

David Hogg, the 17 - year - old high school senior turned gun control activist, mustered the collective power of social media - and his more than 630,000 Twitter followers - and urged them to «tweet away» at her top sponsors to call on them to boycott her TV show, «The Ingraham Angle.»

Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday's White House Correspondents» Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress.

Other right - wing conspiracy theorists falsely claimed the shooting was a staged «false flag» operation, and that the student organizers were secretly being led by «left wing gun control activists,» the Miami Herald reported.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey is joining with other gun control activists to call on Congress to approve tough gun laws.

And on March 24, gun control activists nationwide will participate in the March for Our Lives in Washington.

Lucy McBath, a prominent gun control activist, is not the only Democratic candidate highlighting gun safety in the race to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Karen Handel in suburban Atlanta.

ANALYSIS / OPINION: It's been several days since Fox News host Laura Ingraham offered an apology to student gun control activist David Hogg for characterizing him as whiney on Twitter.

Rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent used an appearance on the «The Joe Page Show» to describe the Parkland gun control activists as people who «have no soul.»

Advertisers have been fleeing Fox News host Laura Ingraham's show after she tweeted about Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg's college rejections.

Since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, gun control activists have loudly called for lawmakers to raise the minimum age for any gun purchase to 21.

As Parkland gun control activists and their surrogates mock the idea of arming teachers, march for gun bans in D.C., and call for new gun controls via Twitter, they risk driving Americans toward the Second Amendment instead of away from it.

Or consider David Hogg, one of the most frequent spokesmen for Parkland gun control activists.

Nugent believes the media is not only propping up the Parkland gun control activists but also giving them direction in what to say.

On March 17 Breitbart News reported that David Hogg, one of the Parkland gun control activists, released a PSA in which he asked, «What if our politicians weren't the b*tch of the NRA?»

Parkland gun control activist David Hogg suggests Broward County deputy Scot Peterson's decision to stay out of building 12 while the attack occurred shows that teachers can not be expected to protect kids.

Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg says his teachers are «very understanding» when he skips school for gun control rallies.

Donations to the NRA's political action committee in February surged to three times what they were in January as Parkland gun control activists and media outlets blamed the NRA for «gun violence.»

That legislation is the top priority for the N.R.A., and gun control activists have promised to fight it aggressively.

Friday on MSNBC's «Andrea Mitchell Reports,» Parkland survivor and gun control activist David Hogg refused to accept Fox News host Laura Ingraham's apology for criticizing him on Twitter about not getting into colleges.

Even though the session was held in Clinton's local campaign headquarters, the gun control activists were not necessarily Clinton supporters.

This decision, in turn, has angered some gun control activists.

Recently, Ingraham lost half of her show's advertisers after mocking Stoneman Douglas senior and gun control activist David Hogg on Twitter.

Aurora was the site of a mass shooting at a movie theater and has since become a rallying point for gun control activists.

Friday on MSNBC's «Andrea Mitchell Reports,» Parkland survivor and gun control activist David Hogg refused to accept Fox News host Laura Ingraham's apology for criticizing him on Twitter about not...

In the wake of the horrific Parkland school shooting, survivor David Hogg has stepped out as a gun control activist, making headlines after CNN's Townhall discussion.