Sentences with phrase «gun debate»

The national gun debate has a new, youthful face.

The lack of progress could be due to the unexpected gun debate that took place.

The national gun debate has a new, youthful face.

To many advocates for gun control, the moment feels more profound than any since the aftermath of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 first - graders and six adults were fatally shot, spurring the most serious congressional gun debate in years.

said county singer Jason Aldean, making it clear that his position on the current gun debate will be to avoid taking a position in the politically charged debate.

As gun debate roils on, teachers in this Texas school are already armed.

When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, background checks skyrocketed and increased steadily throughout his term — especially after the Sandy Hook shooting and the subsequent gun debate.

And the national gun debate appears to be moving center stage.

Horrifically timely in light of the escalating violence and doomed gun debate facing our country at the moment, these loaded metaphors hit upon our inherent attraction and repulsion to such artifacts, isolating them in the aesthetic frame of the objet trouve.

Spitzer said the reaction was likely a reaction to the student mobilization that followed the Florida shooting, but he said it was too soon tell how significantly it will sway the country's wider gun debate.

#NeverAgain offers students, many who are too young to vote, a voice in the ongoing gun debate.

The students of Stoneman Douglas High School have taken a horrific tragedy and turned it into a movement that actually seems capable of shooting down, if you will, the tired orthodoxies of our rigid gun debate.

But a huge amount of the current gun debate, the argument for the gun - owning tribe, amounts to the gun culture invading my area, my culture, my part of the country.

Students and teachers hugged and cried as they returned under heavy police guard to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first time since a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people and thrust the huge Florida school into the center of a renewed national gun debate.

Companies have long resisted getting pulled into the gun debate for fear of offending a large part of their clientele.

Delta attempted to paint the move as an apolitical one and an attempt to stay above the fray in the gun debate, which has been reignited after this month's shooting at a high school in Florida.

Democrats have revived the gun debate after 49 people were killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, the worst such incident in modern history.

Cruz, who opposes gun control, claims that most of the Simpson's family would be aligned with the Republican Party in the gun debate.

And he has recently come under fire for sitting out of the gun debate.

Because the gun debate is one of the most heated, pressing political issues of our time, calm and rational discussions need to happen for us to find common ground on gun rights and gun control.

As financial firms have come under pressure from both sides in the gun debate, banks and credit - card companies are discussing how they could track gun purchases.

Maybe the NRA and its supporters will dismiss our outrage as the «emotional» reaction of people too young to recognize the complexity of the gun debate.

When country star Toby Keith was asked to weigh in on the gun debate in our country, he politely declined, saying, «I'm not that guy.»

Without a clear path forward for any legislation, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shelved the gun debate, for now, saying the Senate would turn next week to other measures.

You look at the way companies are positioning themselves; Dick's Sporting Goods around the gun debate generated goodwill from the crowd.

Delta doesn't seemed to have added much to the guns debate — and worse, seemed to open itself up to criticism.

The Broward County School Board has formally entered the gun debate, passing a resolution Tuesday that calls for tougher federal background checks and a ban on semiautomatic weapons.

Kashuv said the gun debate has become so prominent since the Valentine's Day massacre that killed 17 that he «felt it was important to learn about the physical mechanics of it,» Kashuv said in a text to The Associated Press.

Whether and how this corporate and business backlash may influence the gun debate raging in states and on the national stage is still an open question.

One of the creators, Keywon Chung, said she was inspired to take the idea of fossil - fuel divestitures to the gun debate.

This gun debate is arguably the first time since Sandy Hook that policymakers are seriously considering gun control policy.

In the wake of the Parkland massacre, the polarizing AR - 15 is playing center stage in the gun debate.

The gun debate may be the purest representation of the political polarization infecting this country.

On the third episode of The Faith Angle podcast, hosts Kirsten and Jonathan talk with activist, historian and hip - hop artist Propaganda to get his views on the gun debate in...

On the third episode of The Faith Angle podcast, hosts Kirsten and Jonathan talk with activist, historian and hip - hop artist Propaganda to get his views on the gun debate in America, including the ways that gun issues are also race issues.

podcast, hosts Kirsten and Jonathan talk with activist, historian and hip - hop artist Propaganda to get his views on the gun debate in America, including the ways that gun issues are also race issues.

Kirsten: You also touch on something that I think is really important about the racial aspect of the gun debate.

This debate reminds of the gun debate wherein a means is juxtaposed with a TOTAL character trait - in other words «If you Joe citizen have a weapon for protetction you are somehow evil and wrong».

Seriously, if city hicks are going to get involved in gun debate, they should at least learn the terms.

Reject Apathy The prince of peace on the gun debate.

I think it is time for an honest conversation about the assumptions on which both sides in the gun debate base their arguments.

Just how polarizing is the gun debate in America?

Think of it almost like school shootings: whenever one happens, the gun debate is reopened.

While there are obvious differences here in degree and severity of the issue, I believe the Golden 1 riots achieved the same kind of discourse opener for Sacramento's police issues as a shooting does for the gun debate.

Packing or not packing isn't like a gun debate - it's just goldfish crackers.

Still, in Albany, the gun debate has mirrored the national discussion on the issue as Republicans have sought measures that would provide more armed school resources officers as well as metal detectors to bolster school safety.

This is «sort of» correct, but is much more of a generic answer to a broader question of «why is the gun debate controversial in general»?

-- Simone Pathé and Bridget Bowman This week... Chris McDaniel launched another Senate primary run in Mississippi, voters picked their candidates in Arizona, and underdog Democrats used the gun debate to make their mark.