Sentences with phrase «gun control efforts in»

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Though he faces an uphill battle — he's a pro-business fiscal conservative who also supports gun control, abortion rights, and efforts to curb climate change — his personal war chest will come in handy.

The Parkland shooting has faded from the headlines in the weeks since the March for Our Lives, and Friday's rally is one of the last coordinated, nationwide gun control efforts on the calendar.

Gbowee found even more cause for celebration in the efforts of the Parkland students to hold the government accountable for gun control policy.

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

The gun control effort, however, cost Cuomo a pile of political capital and his popularity suffered for it in public opinion polls.

Cuomo entered into a multi-state agreement with three other states in an effort to increase gun control, which will ultimately create a database to share information with Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey.

New York's Democratic lawmakers and gun - control advocates have won an important new ally in their effort to push a legislative ban of bump stocks, which turn semi-automatic rifles into virtual machine guns: Acting ATF Director Thomas Brandon.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made gun control a signature issue for him following the shooting at Connecticut elementary school, said he would back additional gun control efforts, but insisted the SAFE Act remained the best gun control law in the country.

Accepting his party's nomination, Cuomo sounded a triumphant note in his party convention address that cited his successful efforts to pass gay marriage and gun control and his work to boost education investments and fix the economy of upstate New York.

He did, however say that «New York leads the way» in gun control efforts.

As dozens of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have gained popularity spearheading a new movement for increased gun control after a gunman killed 17 people at their school in February, Kashuv has garnered a following among conservatives for opposing those efforts and emphasizing conservative legislative initiatives.

The governor told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that there was a «political cost» after he led New York's efforts to adopt new gun control legislation shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre in late 2012.

Republicans in the New York state Senate have blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this afternoon annonuced a major $ 10 million independent spending campaign in an effort to elect moderates and independents who support his views on gun control and education.

Gen. David Petraeus will form a new gun - control group for veterans with retired astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who became a vocal proponent of gun - control efforts after she was shot in the head in 2011.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Republicans in the New York state Senate have blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

He included that on his end - of - session agenda in an effort to mollify conservative activists who opposed ascension as leader due to his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control measure.

ALBANY - Senate Republicans in Albany blocked an effort by Democrats Wednesday to force a vote on four gun control bills.

Republican leaders in the state Senate did not respond to requests for comment on Hoylman's bill, but on Wednesday they defeated an effort by Senate Democrats to force a vote on several gun control measures including a bump stock ban.

The Democratic strategist involved in the effort said that Cuomo continues the gun control fight even though he suffered politically among Republicans and voters upstate and in the Hudson Valley after passage of the SAFE Act, which «was the right thing to do.»

Last week, the state Democratic Party bought $ 100,000 in television ads touting Mr. Cuomo's efforts on gun control.

Bratton's main point on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» appeared to be that law enforcement officers can not just surveil their way out of the problem of terrorism and mass shootings, but rather need stricter gun control laws to help them in their efforts.

ALBANY — Senate Republicans in Albany blocked an effort by Democrats Wednesday to force a vote on four gun control bills.

LOVE it or loathe it, there is no denying that the US National Rifle Association (NRA) has been stunningly successful in its efforts to fight gun control.

While his reported $ 50 million campaign for gun control has had a negligible effect, Bloomberg has reason to hope his latest effort in philanthropic activism will produce more results.

But as the healing effort begins, one question is whether Google and other Silicon Valley companies will be even more vocal in the ongoing national debate over gun control.

A particularly low - effort hoax spreading online in March 2018 — part of a wave of attempted smear campaigns directed at survivors of a February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida who are calling for stricter gun - control legislation — has led some people to accuse one of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivors of vandalism.

Republicans in the state Senate blocked an effort by Democrats to force a vote on four gun control bills.

Since the shooting in Florida that left 17 dead, efforts are starting to be made at the state and federal level on gun control.

Others have traveled to Washington, D.C., and Tallahassee in an effort to lobby for gun control and preventive policies.

The Stoneman Douglas High survivors should be further encouraged to continue in their efforts for sensible gun control measures.

While introducing speaker and student organizer Nicole Straight from Cypress Bay High in her hometown of Weston, the congresswoman praised the grassroots efforts from «amazing» students who have led efforts to spur a national dialogue on gun control.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, also welcomed efforts to increase safety measures and resources, but she said legislators and Mr. Trump had used it deflect from the larger demands of the public, including students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who had been in the forefront of gun control advocacy since the shooting.

Aware of how difficult it can be to sustain such effort, he said he remains impressed of how the Stoneman Douglas students and those nationally have not backed down in their demands for gun control and greater school safety.

17 For Change is a new organization based in Broward County that will aim to push for gun control and will alert voters which officials support those efforts.