Sentences with phrase «gun laws do»

But I believe our current gun laws do not keep us safe and perpetuate a vicious cycle of violence that disproportionately affects our communities of color.

The right gun laws do prevent shootings, research strongly indicates.

It is time for our elected officials to have an honest and open discussion on the SAFE Act and why states with less restrictive gun laws do not have these problems.»

Your gun laws do NOT stop massacres; they enable them; criminals do NOT obey the law in the first place.

«They say that tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence.

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While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

But he did find one telling correlation: States with tighter gun control laws have fewer gun - related deaths.

The bill with the best chance of becoming law doesn't make new gun laws — it enforces existing ones.

The Parkland student Drake Speno, 13, sent Trump an impassioned letter via email, urging the president to «please do something» and «start making gun laws.»

Mr. Trump did not respond when he was asked if gun laws needed to be changed.

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch appeared on a CNN Town Hall on guns in Sunrise, Florida and said law enforcement could have done more to stop the Florida school shooting.

Oregon Live reports that the state has banned gun ownership by anyone convicted of domestic violence since 2015, but the law did not apply to abusers who were not married to, had no children with, or did not live with their victims.

A Democratic - controlled Congress back in 2010 didn't have the political capital to pass gun laws (some Democrats have since said that was a mistake), and Congress failed to expand background checks in 2013 after the 2012 Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting.

Sustained national media attention on the shooting, emotional confrontations between politicians and survivors and their families, as well as a public - opinion shift in favor of stricter gun laws could spur Congress to do something to tighten access to guns.

«I thought if ever we were going to do something dramatic and lasting to change Australia's gun laws to prevent the emergence of a more alien gun culture in our country, this was the time to do it.»

That doesn't mean the stricter gun laws in Chicago, New York, or any other jurisdiction have no effect, but it does limit how far these local and state measures can go, since the root of the problem lies in other places» laws.

The Manchin - Toomey bill, the only gun legislation in Congress after Sandy Hook that came close to becoming law, didn't even establish universal background checks.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has ruled that bump stocks do not violate laws that tightly limit ownership of machine guns, and some lawmakers have called for them to be banned.

But the law doesn't do anything to regulate gun sales or to restrict the sale of assault - style weapons like the AR - 15; it's far from what the students listed in their demands on gun control.

Unlike many of his classmates, Kashuv doesn't support more restrictive gun laws.

Now, these laws were not perfect, and they didn't solve gun violence in America.

More than 6 in 10 Americans fault Congress and President Trump for not doing enough to prevent mass shootings, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with most Americans continuing to say these incidents are more reflective of problems identifying and addressing mental health issues than inadequate gun laws.

Adding laws restricting gun possession does not prevent criminals who choose not to follow laws.

Our «Strict» gun laws are a joke compared to other countries and do little on a state - by - state basis.

I don't want the gov» t to come into my home checking that I'm being a responsible adult... In New Hampshire, where I live, there are few gun laws... one of them is you can store and keep a firearm however you want... but if a child gets a hold of it, whatever happens is on you the owner of the firearm.

Adding to already restrictive gun laws only serves to restrict the law abiding citizen from whom we do not have any problem.

In this country, the second you pull a gun on someone else just because you don't like a law, you become a criminal and deserve the full consequences of your actions.

Kenaassaw Ga. passed a law requiring all citizens to own a gun, bet they don't have near the crime rate as Youngstown.

«We did everything that the law required and still [Cruz] was able to buy a gun.

Only by reducing the love affair Americans have with guns can we start to reduce the macho gun owner mentality (and I know many gun owners... most are hunters, and I have no issue with that, but no deer was ever so formidable that anyone ever needed an assault rifle to take it down (and I've caught wild turkey with nothing but snare traps) People get up in arms caliming their rights are violated when some law limits guns, but that does not remove the right to bear arms, simply limits it to reason within the spirit of the amendment.

How does having gun laws lower the chance of another school shooting, it doesn't.

having a gun does not signify hate, you could be in law enforcement and a good person.

In the United States more illegal shooting happen in the Washington DC and Maryland area where guns are totally outlawed than in free to carry states like Arizona where I live because chances are in the DC area the hard working and law abiding citizen does not carry a gun.

Did you know you can get flagged to local law enforcement for buying too much Sudaffed decongestant for it can used to make illegal drugs but if I buy 100 guns online or buy a store out of ammunition no one knows.

My faith has absolutely nothing to do with my stance on gun control (I don't support infringing on the liberties of law abiding citizens just because some people are scared of guns).

Historically, mass shootings don't usually lead to stricter regulation on gun control laws — they actually loosen them in states with Republican legislatures.

If you want to keep criminals from getting guns, then you have to pass laws that do that.

If you want to keep people with mental issues from getting guns, then you have to pass laws that do that.

If you're not willing to pass COMMON SENSE gun laws, do you really love your kids?

Essentially he's saying «I'm sorry for the victims and want to help the families get through this... but I still don't support gun laws that could prevent certain people from doing the same thing to other families.»

It doesn't matter if Illinois has tough gun laws if people can just get guns from other states with lax gun laws.

People keep thinking their beloved gun rights (in the way they interpret the Cont * itution) impact society the same way today as they did when people were doing a lot more hunting for food, defending themselves from animals, defending themselves in places where law had not yet been established.

Over 40 people dead and it had nothing to do with religion or related in any way to gun laws.

There are 260 million americans and a bill of rights and many millions of gun owners who have nothing to do with mass shooting yet you want to make the difference by banning something that affects 3 million plus law abiding citizens... to stop.008 % of murders???

That's what more gun laws will do.

Compare that to states and cities that allow law - abiding citizens to get gun training and carry concealed weapons, and you will see that armed, law abiding citizens do more to deter violent crime than banning guns does.

Hey Cappy, jealous that Canada has gun control laws; or universal health care or is it jealousy over our secularism and the fact that we really just don't give a damn what you think?

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

To those who claim that improving gun control laws and restricting the sale of assault - type rifles wouldn't do a thing to keep this sort of tragedy from happening: How do you know?