Sentences with phrase «gun rights activists»

He is taking heat from Republicans and gun rights activists who believe the sheriff is focusing on guns and not accepting responsibility for failing to stop the school gunman before the shooting — and for his deputies not charging into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Likewise, I would think, with gun rights activists.»

The response to the slayings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., signaled a major shift for a state known as a legal laboratory for gun rights activists.

Several upstate Republican leaders, working in concert with gun rights activists, pushed for DeFrancisco and argued Flanagan would continue a cozy posture Skelos took toward Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.

The upstaters backed Flanagan despite a push by many in the region, including gun rights activists, to install DeFrancisco.

Apparently it is easier and more comforting for gun rights activists to believe outrageous falsehoods than to acknowledge the tragedies that arise as a result of their beloved ideology.

Lest you think that such vicious behavior is somehow restricted only to gun rights activists, consider the response of midwives and lactation consultants to the tragedies that arise as a result of their beloved ideologies.

Carlson pointed out that it feels like gun rights activists can't disagree with these Parkland shooting survivors.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February has reignited the debate about how to keep children safe from a future attack, with President Trump and gun rights activists saying the best solution is to let teachers carry guns.

But it also means that gun rights activists have started to ramp up the rhetoric on how liberals supposedly want to take away people's guns and infringe on the Second Amendment.

Charges filed in March against a gun rights activist openly carrying a firearm in Olmos Park have been dropped due to «insufficient evidence.»

Age: 57 Hometown: West Hartford Occupation: Businessman, former West Hartford Town Council member Background: A far - right conservative, Visconti is a staunch gun rights activist who identifies with the Tea Party movement.

Not exact matches

The show cast six supporting «citizen journalists» who reflect the broad swath of personalities on the right, with a gun - rights activist in the vein of bombastic NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, provocateurs in the vein of Milo Yiannopoulos, what Miller described as a «pseudo-intellectual with no real credentials,» and a stay - at - home livestreamer rambling without much of a point.

Delta, United Airlines, Hertz, and MetLife are among more than a dozen companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association after gun - control activists encouraged people to boycott brands that did business with the guns - rights group.

Other right - wing conspiracy theorists falsely claimed the shooting was a staged «false flag» operation, and that the student organizers were secretly being led by «left wing gun control activists,» the Miami Herald reported.

For all of us on the right, it should have been a lightbulb moment on Friday, when David Hogg, the 17 - year - old student - turned - gun - control - activist, said to CNN's Alisyn Camerota, «I think it's great that corporate America is standing with me and the rest of my friends.»

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.

Gun rights activists insist that lax gun laws have no impact on public safety.

Mr Brown told party activists: «No - one who sells drugs to our children or uses guns has the right to stay in our country.»

Flanagan has come under criticism from conservative activists and gun - rights supporters for his support of the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package approved in the wake of a Connecticut school shooting.

Meanwhile, second amendment activists are furious at Cuomo's new restrictions on gun rights in the rest of the bill BY DYLAN SKRILOFF It's almost official.

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.

Cuomo has always been a triangular progressive, hoping his stances on social issues — gay rights, gun control, abortion rights — will sufficiently endear him to the left flank of his party that he could govern as a fiscal moderate, once described by liberal activists as «Governor One Percent» and as «a good, moderate Republican» by Dean Skelos, the former leader of the state Senate.

The activist said if he had accepted he'd give up his right to vote or own a gun, two of the things he advocates for regularly.

This event was pushed hard by the Tea Party and activist Rus Thompson and the gun rights group Shooters Committee on Political Education.

In December, Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) had severed reciprocity rights of gun owners in 25 states with concealed - weapons standards looser than Virginia's — a move that had infuriated gun - rights activists even though state law has long dictated that reciprocity be limited to states with standards on par with Virginia's.

Penn, who won for his portrayal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk in Gus van Sant's biopic, Milk acknowledged the shock in his speech, exclaiming, «Well, you commie, homo - loving sons of guns!»

February 28, 2013 • The Senate held its first hearing on an assault weapons ban Wednesday, with activists pushing for tighter gun regulations sharing a table with gun - rights activists.

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In regard to Fred Grimm's Sunday column «Far right attacks Parkland gun control activists with smears, lies,» wouldn't it be fair to say that the smears and lies started from the students» side?

They are kept on paper instead, a move heavily promoted by gun - rights activists who seek to limit gun regulations.

Teenage survivors of Wednesday's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have become advocates for gun control, sparring with gun - rights activists on social media and calling for safer gun laws at vigils and in television interviews.