Sentences with phrase «national call for gun control»

More than 100 Morris Jeff Community School students peacefully marched of class Wednesday morning as part of a national call for gun control.

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The walkout, «Stand for the Second,» is a response to the March 14 National School Walkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

In the weeks since the February 14 shooting, the survivors from the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have seized national attention with a call for gun control.

And the White House, which shifted Trump's calls for comprehensive gun control toward a proposal that looked a lot more like the National Rifle Association's platform (including arming teachers), has been preoccupied with Cabinet shake - ups and hardline immigration rhetoric.

CNN: Religious leaders launch campaign for gun control With the bells of the Washington National Cathedral ringing 28 times — honoring all those killed in last week's Connecticut shooting — a broad group of religious leaders on Friday called on their congregations, the White House and Congress to do more to combat gun violence.

Proudly calling himself the National Rifle Association's «Public Enemy No. 1,» U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged congressional Republican leaders top listen to the «millions and millions» of March for Our Lives protesters by introducing gun - control legislation.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview Thursday continued to press the case for gun control on the national level and for congressional Democrats to call the question with a strong gun control bill.

The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.

Young people around the country have been doing anti-violence work for years, but the February 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, thrust their calls for better gun - control laws and mental health services into the national spotlight.

There's a lot of debate about gun control right now, and it was interesting today to watch all the major U.S. car rental agencies halt their discount programs for members of the NRA (National Rifle... [Read more...] about Why Car Rental Companies Made the Right Call in Dropping the NRA

Students are calling for stricter gun control laws, building on the momentum of last week's National School Walkout.

They have repeatedly detailed their harrowing experience to national news networks, many calling for stricter gun control laws while decrying President Donald Trump for not doing enough to protect students.

The National Rifle Association, and now the State of Florida, faced a growing backlash Saturday as companies cut ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre, and student survivors called for tourism boycotts of their home state until gun control measures are enacted.