Sentences with phrase «gun reform activists»
Nugent on Saturday called the student gun reform activists «mushy brained children who have been fed lies,» and accused them of committing «spiritual suicide» in their fight for change.
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But as a Republican president, perhaps the most pro-firearm chief executive in American history, Trump is, in theory, in a unique position to use his good standing with Second Amendment activists to make the case for gun reforms.
Student and gun - reform activist David Hogg has now turned his sights on one of the most high - profile U.S. senators in Congress: Sen. John McCain (R - AZ).
In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.
As America has suffered through mass shooting after mass shooting, it often seems there is an unbridgeable chasm between activists calling for reforms and gun rights purists who have worked to redefine the meaning of the Second Amendment through the courts and exercise outsize influence on legislatures.
In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.
And they were marveling at what had come next: a deluge of media attention focused on the brave MSD students who have stepped up and become well - spoken activists for reforming the nation's gun laws.
Activists hold up signs at the Florida State Capitol as they rally for gun reform legislation on February 26, 2018 in Tallahassee, Florida.
He and the other Stoneman Douglas activists feel a deep burden, a weight on them that this is their time to make a difference and lobby for gun law reform.
Students who have become activists following the Feb. 14 Stoneman Douglas shooting in Parkland began tweeting #IWillMarch on March 11 to press lawmakers to enact tougher gun - control reforms.
In Chicago communities ravaged by gun violence, students, anti-violence advocates and activists in the Black Lives Matter Chicago movement say they are energized and inspired by the way Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who has been a leader in the student movement, has specifically mentioned cities like Chicago in her vocal pleas for gun reform.