Sentences with phrase «liberal gun laws»

Our president, our governor, and other elected officials support liberal gun laws in our state and country.

As well as the rather crass attention - seeking, I was mocking the attempt to provide an «evidence base» with «at least one» anecdote from a country which everybody knows has liberal gun laws and a much higher murder rate.

I understand that Canada also has widespread gun ownership and much more liberal gun laws than we have with proportionately fewer incidents of gun crime than the US.

Not exact matches

At ProPublica, Alec MacGillis writes that pessimism among liberals after years of seeing no significant changes to the nation's gun laws can be self - fulfilling.

The staunch opposition comes after Cuomo has been able to get the Senate GOP, now in a governing coalition with four independent Democrats, to hold votes on a variety of liberal causes, most recently the gun control law in January.

Tenney did not provide any substantiation for her claim, but later issued a statement saying she is «fed up with the media and liberals attempting to politicize tragedies and demonize law - abiding gun owners and conservative Americans every time there is a horrible tragedy.»

The W.F.P. challenge is the most tangible manifestation of the frustration expressed by progressives toward Cuomo, and their displeasure that he has governed as a fiscal moderate, choosing to burnish his liberal credentials with social issues, like a push to legalize same - sex marriage and a new gun control law passed after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

Democrats, women, liberals, moderates, New York City, black, and Jewish voters and voters over the age of 55 said the incident should lead to stronger gun control laws, while Republicans, men, conservatives, and upstaters said some acts of violence simply can't be prevented.

In the case at hand, the point of view on gun laws simply seems to roughly follow the political distinctions of «liberal» versus «conservative» in the way that «conservative» politicians tend to not want to change the existing (perceived by many, liberal) gun laws.

The cow «will stand up for law abiding citizens who are smeared by anti gun liberal elitists» Well moo cow who will stand up for the dead children smeared in their own blood at high schools, movies, concerts, churches, college campus's etc etc?

From guaranteed paid sick leave to tougher gun control laws, from a higher minimum wage to a comparably smooth rollout of the Affordable Care Act, few governors have embraced President Barack Obama's liberal policies with the zeal of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

«I am fed up with the media and liberals attempting to politicize tragedies and demonize law - abiding gun owners and conservative Americans every time there is a horrible tragedy,» Tenney said.

And the liberal democrat gun banners NEVER support or want to enforce tough laws that require stiff prison sentences or death for violent murderous criminals.

When the proposed solution called for looser versus tighter gun - control laws, those with more liberal gun - control ideologies were more likely to downplay the frequency of violent home break - ins.

The new Liberal government has already expressed a desire to revisit this controversial approach to sentencing though unwinding laws that guarantee longer jail terms for gun crimes and child abusers may prove an unpopular move even to Trudeau's broad base of supporters.

That consensus no longer exists — thanks largely to the work over the last 20 years of several leading liberal law professors, who have come to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns.»

Hence the former Harper government's destruction of the Liberal - created long - gun registry and its vandalism of the data contained therein, plus the Wildrosers» stout defence of the «property rights» of so - called «law - abiding gun owners,» as well as the party's insistence Ottawa leave non-criminal regulation of firearms to the provinces.