Sentences with phrase «making gun control an issue»

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But as hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in DC and the rest of the country on Saturday, it became clear that the movement's apparent potential to promote and boost issue intensity on gun control could ultimately make it pivotal.

And gun sale trends could change if President Donald Trump makes another surprising comment about gun control or commits to a policy push on the issue, as he seemed to do in a recent White House roundtable.

But as hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Washington, DC, and the rest of the country on Saturday, it became clear that the movement's apparent potential to promote and boost issue intensity on gun control could ultimately make it pivotal.

But Cuomo has said he would push to make gun control — which has become a key issue for him after the passage of the SAFE Act in 2013 — a centerpiece concern in the 2016 presidential election.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made gun control a signature issue for him following the shooting at Connecticut elementary school, said he would back additional gun control efforts, but insisted the SAFE Act remained the best gun control law in the country.

The emails Cuomo sent yesterday give a very early clue to an argument he would likely make if he indeed decides to take a step onto the national stage: Under my leadership, New York led the nation on touchstone progressive issues, not only becoming the largest state in the country (before the US Supreme Court Prop. 8 decision) to legalize gay marriage, but also the first to act on gun control in the wake of the horrific Newtown massacre.

Democrat Robin Kelly made gun control a central issue in her successful House primary last month, and now she says she will follow the president's lead on that very issue in Congress.

LaPierre's attack is an instant fundraising tool for a governor who has made gun control a front - and - center issue for him in a blue state where there's little downside, by and large, to drawing the ire of the gun - rights group.

No matter what Gov. says: the NRA gun nuts keep trying to make this a 2n Amendment issue, instead of a «Gun Control» issue.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who has made gun control one of his main issues, is the focus of a new advertising campaign by the NRA.

«The governor's sense that the tragedies of Newtown, Aurora, Virginia Tech et cetera will continue unless we find a way to make the issue crime control rather than gun control — namely, keeping the weapons that kill savagely in large numbers out of of the hands of criminals and the mentally deranged,» Gyory said.

The GOP this year is banking on a large upstate turn out, counting on anger over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act, as well his the delay on making a decision over hydrofracking, as key issues that will bring voters outside of New York City to the polls.

The state budget is expected to pass within the next month, but lawmakers at the state Capitol are diving into a range of complicated and emotional issues ranging from gun control to making it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

McCarthy, who has made gun - control her signature issue over her past 18 years in Congress, said she was «confident» Rice would continue to «carry the torch» on the issue after McCarthy retires.

The only problem is that America is still in the process of a widespread national debate about gun control, so when absolutely nothing is made of the case at the heart of the story to make room for the chases and behind - closed - doors intrigue, the issue becomes a mere afterthought, which Runaway Jury indifferently exploits for the purpose of escapism.

Wednesday's deadly mass shooting at a high school in south Florida has brought gun control advocates out in droves on social media to once again make their case for stricter gun control, leading their ideological opponents to argue that gun control measures in and of themselves were not the issue.