Sentences with phrase «making gun issues»

But the Parkland movement might change that dynamic, at least slightly, by making gun issues higher salience for the country as a whole.

Not exact matches

But, he told studio chiefs: «When it comes to issues like gun violence, we've got to make sure that we're not glorifying it, because the stories you tell shape our children's outlook and their lives.»

Mr. Schultz, one of the most visible chief executives in the country, has made Starbucks a vocal part of the national conversation on issues like gun violence, gay rights, race relations, veterans rights and student debt.

But America has become resistant to doing anything about this issue, in large part due to a decades - long public campaign by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms and that more guns will actually make people safer, contrary to what the research says.

Meanwhile, those who oppose stricter gun laws are simply more likely to make it the one issue they'll vote on.

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.

After the Parkland shooting, House Speaker Paul Ryan focused on past legislation on mental health issues, despite the fact that Republicans actually made it easier for people with mental illnesses to purchase guns last year.

«Politics makes for the strangest of bedfellows,» Sanford said of the predicament; he has spoken openly against Trump, yet he sees himself closer to the president on the gun issue than most of his Freedom Caucus colleagues do.

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.

And there is definitely an intensity gap whereby gun rights supporters make the issue a greater priority.

Now, I have made no mention of the implications of those questions to the issue of guns, but if you feel a twinge of defensiveness or pride already, I would challenge you to pray about that.

Their «criminally stupid strategy» of removing central economic distinctions from the table has made them easy prey for their enemies: «[B] y dropping the class language that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans they have left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns and abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns.»

Ms Smith said: «One of the issues, of course, as the Chief Constable made clear in Liverpool, is that we need people in local communities to be willing to firstly stand up against gun crime, but also to give information to the police [and] to be willing to come forward.

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.

You say the gun people are angry and that makes it a «serious issue»..

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.

«We've seen that Hillary Clinton has made common sense gun law reform a platform issue,» Kavanagh said.

«As I said during the campaign, I intend to focus on important fiscal and environmental issues, and to make sure we're doing all we can to have safer schools and sensible gun reform laws,» Clements added.

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.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has said he wants to make sure that people who can't legally own guns — those with criminal convictions, serious mental health issues, or active restraining orders — aren't somehow falling through the cracks and holding onto their firearms.

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.

Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included education, guns in work parking lots, and requiring prescriptions for drugs used to make methamphetamine.

«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.

Though, notably omitted is discussion of gun issues, which could make or break Mast and Curbelo in the wake of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

PROTECT families by supporting proposals that would keep guns out of the wrong hands, including the Extreme Risk Protection Order bill, which would make it possible for families and law enforcement to remove firearms from loved ones who could be a danger to themselves or others, and making permanent Kendra's Law, which grants judges the authority to issue orders that require people who meet certain criteria to regularly undergo psychiatric treatment.

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.

He also said tightening the state's gun laws — perhaps in a special session as soon as next week — would help highlight the issue, and make New York a «template» for other states after fatal shootings in Newtown, Conn., and suburban Rochester.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, explained that she represents a district that strongly supports gun rights, and said she believes President Donald Trump was trying to make some «reasonable accommodations on this issue.»

They discuss Fred's desires to take on the NRA and make gun rights one of the top voting issues in the next election.

It continues making excellent work of allegory, focusing on guns and their effect on people (or apes) this time around — a particularly poignant issue this year.

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.

Taking that into consideration, we expect a little more to be made of the gun issue in the movie.

Even more shocking is the fact that their activism seems like it might make an impact on the perpetually intractable issue of gun violence in America.

We understand that school safety sits at the intersection of many complicated issues involving mental health, student privacy, resources and gun laws, but as state chiefs we welcome the difficult conversations that will move us forward in making schools safer for every child.

That makes education different than issues like guns, abortion or even taxes — where a single issue can drive votes.

We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

Screen size may be an issue with Guns N Glory but the fun makes up for any physical shortcoming.

It would make no difference to these issues if the recent global warming was caused by CO2 or by aliens heating the planet with ray guns.

The issue in Stewart was whether Congress» commerce power allowed it to criminalize the possession of a home - made machine - gun Stewart had converted his semi-automatic rifle to fire automatically with parts that had moved through interstate commerce.

They intend to make it a voting issue and get rid of the public servants that support the gun lobby.

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.

Like I said above, you've got to give to get and having an understanding of which issues are most important to you will allow you to stick to your guns on the ones that matter and compromise on the ones that don't instead of making every point a contentious battle.

Even more shocking is the fact that their activism seems like it might make an impact on the perpetually intractable issue of gun violence in America.