Sentences with phrase «gun crimes in»

Most killings and other gun crimes in the United States are committed with the use of handguns.

I offer aggressive representation for people who have been charged with gun crimes in the Quad Cities and throughout Illinois.

During that show, the host mentioned gun crimes in inner cities.

This afternoon's event was supposed to focus on gun crimes in low - income communities, and to push for more city funding for summer jobs intiatives, but activist Tamika Mallory took it as an opportunity to blast the commissioner for his «disparaging» remarks.

Asked whether a repeal of the ban would cause gun crime in the city to go back to levels seen in the nineties he replied: «Of course not.

Farage claimed the ban on handguns, brought in after the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, is «ludicrous» and believes there is «no link» between legalised guns and gun crime in the UK.

In late October, 2014, shaken by yet another round of gun crime in Albany, elected officials, community leaders and private citizens gathered together for a downtown brainstorming session.

Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world.

It's a nice bit of realism, a testament to the smallness and nearness of gun crime in the city... This is a tender, intimate moment between the two women, and both of their helpless sorrow punctuates the scene.»

While penalties would remain the same for people who own or train fighting dogs, or host dog fights, those who finance and organize them would face five to 10 years in prison, or even twice that if the organizer was convicted of a violent offense or gun crime in connection with dogfighting.

Not exact matches

One of the most useful things to do when thinking about gun control and its controversial place in American society is to consider other countries and their relationship to guns and gun crime.

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

High profile shootings such as the one in Orlando, Florida amplify fears of crime, leading some people to buy guns.

The tax agency's crime - fighting wing has about 2,000 agents — accountants with a badge and a gun — and counts a growing number of cryptocurrency experts in its ranks.

Australia's success in tightly restricting gun ownership after its worst mass shooting, and the concomitant reduction in gun crimes and mass shootings, is likely to be held up by proponents of gun control as an example for what the U.S. should do after its latest mass shooting on Sunday.

Defense lawyers said the shooting was an accident that happened when Garcia Zarate, who had a history of nonviolent drug crimes, found the gun wrapped in a T - shirt or cloth under his seat on the pier just seconds before it discharged in his hands.

There are very tough anti-gun laws in some cities and jurisdictions, and those cities and jurisdictions also have high gun crime rates.

In the broadest of strokes, rural gun owners resented it, while urbanites who feared gun crime approved.

President Bush sits down to sign the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shielded the firearms industry from civil lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes.

If not for the ban on consolidating data into a searchable system, the ATF could create a database that allows it to immediately check the sales history of any gun used in a crime.

This pipeline makes it impossible for states to stop the flow of guns used in crimes within their borders, since the root of the problem lies in other jurisdictions.

And another 2016 report from the US Government Accountability Office found that most of the guns — as many as 70 percent — used in crimes in Mexico, which has strict gun laws, can be traced back to the US, which has generally weaker gun laws.

The result: According to a 2014 report from the Chicago Police Department, nearly 60 percent of the guns in crime scenes that were recovered and traced between 2009 and 2013 came from outside the state.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made this argument after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting: «I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun - related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country.

A 2016 report from the New York State Office of the Attorney General found that 74 percent of guns used in crimes in New York between 2010 and 2015 came from states with lax gun laws.

Kudos to Gov. Larry Hogan («Puppy power on display in Annapolis as Gov. Hogan signs animals bills and crime, gun legislation,» April 24).

His conclusions didn't fit the anti-gun narrative that guns are used in crimes far more than in self - defense and therefore private ownership must be abolished.

Because of the distribution of crime by race — why that's the case isn't at issue here — there will be more policemen with guns in predominantly black neighborhoods than white ones.

do I need any approval before I practice my religion, do I have to prove my religion before I practice, my holy book further describe that you must carry a gun in 21st century because there is too much crime in this world, but it doesn't say much about if I migrate to another country these rules will still apply, Or I should modified them according to my comfort, like talking in English which is not my religious language wearing pants or not, having education or not, standing in line or not, I am so confused what should I do can someone help me, should I go back to country where my religion originated or back in time ask my guru questions about western world confusion, or just decide by myself what suites me, or preach other develop country that you guys are wrong be peaceful.

Is there a law in your town rquiring you to have a gun, as is the case in some very low crime rate communities?

By your reasoning, no one should have a gun, as they «might» in the future use it to commit a crime.

Chicago has total gun bans and the highest gun crime rates in the country.

The facts remain that almost ALL of the guns used in crimes came from «responsible» gun owners, and you are far more likely to be killed by a gun if you own a gun.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

Rev Isaac set up his street pastor team in 2003 as a response to gun and knife crime in Britain's urban areas.

And don't tell me that I'd change my tune if I were a victim of gun crime, just google the horrible situation of Suzanna Hupp at a Luby's in the early 90s.

Maybe a better approach would be to make it mandatory that all homes have a gun as they do in Switzerland, where the crime rate is nil.

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

The magazine's strong Christian lobby has also ranged from Vietnam to postal rates, from gun control (pro) to child abuse (con), from amnesty (a la Ford) to television programming to crime in the streets.

The assault weapon ban was SOOOO successful in stopping gun crimes the LAST time, liberals want to do it again... What is the definition of insanity?

They never mention that in 2013 Democrats filibustered a bi-partisan bill I supported that made gun trafficking a federal crime

Even when I was a pacifist, I lived in a very high - crime neighborhood, and called the cops on numerous occasions so that officers with guns could go after the criminals with guns and lock them up in our tremendously violent prison system where guards with guns would keep them there.

It was listed in a 2004 survey by Americans for Gun Safety as one of worst gun shops in America because over 200 guns used in violent crimes were tracked back to it.

I'm very pleased with the way he has handeld it, since there is the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, that makes going in with our guns blazin an international crime itself.

His kamikaze-esque approach towards the massive rail - gun type thing proved that he was willing to end his life in order to save his rebel friends, but his new partner in crime, Rose, had other thoughts.

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A Home Office spokesperson said: «The government wholly supports the powers of stop and search and believes it to be a vital tool for police officers in preventing, detecting and reducing crime, whether it be street robbery, gun crime, drug - dealing or terrorism.

Gordon Brown continued to publicly back a tougher approach at this year's Labour conference, when he said any foreign national involved in gun or drug crime would be deported.

Lets not forget that in every study when gun control is implemented, violent crime (murder, rape, home invasions) goes up here in America..

Ms Smith said: «One of the issues, of course, as the Chief Constable made clear in Liverpool, is that we need people in local communities to be willing to firstly stand up against gun crime, but also to give information to the police [and] to be willing to come forward.