Sentences with phrase «new gun control debate»

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Ahead of next week's critical New York primary, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders came together for the first time in more than a month to debate issues including corporate influence, gun control, and energy.

In the wake of the heartbreaking mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate over gun control has reached a new high.

Combine it with the White House's verbal nods toward the debate and the staying power the Parkland high - schoolers» calls for gun control have had in the media, and it suggests we may be breaking some new ground here.

Lawmakers in Colorado debated controversial new gun control legislation in 2013 in reaction to the Aurora theater massacre, including a 15 round limit on magazine capacity and tougher requirements on background checks.

The racially motivated shooting by Dylan Roof led to a national debate over the prominence of the Confederate battle flag through much of the South, but a conversation over new gun control measures nationally was more muted.

Clinton and Sanders also clashed over gun control during the debate — the last that will be held before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses and the Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary — while O'Malley struggled to insert himself into the action.

The book comes after The New York Times reported that HaprerCollins is «backing away» from a different book project from New York Post columnist Fred Dicker, who has staunchly disagreed with Cuomo on the gun control law and the ongoing debate over allowing hydrofracking in the state.

There is a new element to the nation's gun control debate, coming out of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Klein, who is 54, has not responded to Gay City News» requests for comment — either during the legislative session or now as the primary campaign is winding up — but in a recent debate on NY1 defended his progressive credentials by pointing to his key role in enacting the governor's new gun control law early last year and in funding pre-K education this year.

Given that the eternal debate about gun control has now been heightened, post-Parkland massacre, to a new state of urgency, the film, depending on your point of view, is either horribly timed or spectacularly well - timed.