Sentences with phrase «over guns»

Some were angry over gun control laws passed in 2013.

No one who has been paying even passing attention to the debates over gun violence and school safety has any illusion that the solutions will be easy.

Some schools prohibited their students from taking part in the nationwide day of protest over gun violence and calls for gun control measures.

The continuing major fight over gun laws is capturing the attention it should.

The lack of funding combined with the toxic environment that surrounds the debate over gun rights has made most public - health researchers wary of touching the topic.

His dissolved army will soon turn over their guns and battle flags.

The website urges parents to «vote for politicians who will choose your children's safety over guns».

The deep partisan split over the gun measures could doom the bill, say some observers, and raise new obstacles to congressional approval of any 2017 spending bills.

Do you think that there should be some special control over the gun usage at academic institutions?

Now his dispute with the school district has become part of a statewide debate over guns in schools that has exposed a rare split among firearm owners.

It is therefore instructive to note that Hon Mubarak Muntaka will also hand over the gun the very day he ceases to be the member of Parliament for Asawase Constituency.

There really is no middle ground, and GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam basically just ensured it will be a major issue in the upcoming election, perhaps even eclipsing the battle over gun control.

Across the US today, Feb. 21, high school students have been organizing walkouts over gun control, a week after a gunman opened fire at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 students and teachers.

Cuomo believes that the popularity hit he's taking at the moment, mostly with upstate Republicans over gun control, is worth it for the sake of good policy — and that he's in sync with the opinions of younger voters.

The latest school shooting in Parkland, FL, has prompted another round of fights over gun control measures.

Barna said that despite the sharp political divide over gun control in the United States, all can agree that schools and children should be safe.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a letter released Thursday called on the State Education Department to reverse disciplinary measures taken against students and faculty members at some schools for participating in protests over gun violence.

The National Rifle Association has filed a federal lawsuit over gun control legislation Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed, saying it violates the Second Amendment by raising the age to buy guns from 18 to 21.

The deaths were all but certain to re-ignite the national debate over gun regulations, coming just three months after the Florida attack that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Cuomo has lost support upstate over the gun laws, his hesitation on hydro fracking and the ongoing poor economy.

Not the readily available, semi-automatic rifles that have figured so tragically in recent mass shootings, igniting a national furor over gun laws.

She was twice nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, only to see her first nomination filibustered and her second sunk by charges of judicial activism by Senate Republicans over gun industry litigation during her time as solicitor general.

BlackRock has enormous influence over both gun makers and retailers.

As the three - year controversy over the gun club came to a head, questions arose about the legitimacy of the issue of lead - shot pollution, the possibility of an underlying anti-gun sentiment, and the role of Park District politics in the decision to seek the gun club «s ouster.

Back then, they tangled over gun control lawsuits.

In the statement, Cuomo pointed to his joining a student - led walkout last week in New York City that was part of a nationwide demonstration at schools over gun violence.

He offered himself up for national TV interviews after a mass shooting at an Oregon community college, challenging his fellow Democrats (before walking it back) to threaten a government shutdown over gun control legislation.

«Americans are experiencing a heated debate over gun policy in the wake of the latest school shooting,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

WHITE PLAINS — The battle over the gun show ban at the Westchester County Center became a topic of major concern on Monday as residents worked to persuade officials to override Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's veto

EXCLUSIVE: Teacher talks about colleagues who lost their lives & his anger over guns in schools.

What resulted was a ridiculous VR tussle over the gun as we both grabbed it out of each other's hands a few times.

The candidates also sparred over gun control.

The Maryland courts have become a hotbed of litigation over gun rights, with the highest court recently (2013) declining to hear a lower case upholding the new restrictive gun laws.

Its NRA card was also highlighted in a New York Times opinion piece that called on the financial industry to exert its «leverage over the gun industry,» seeing as politicians — many of whom are funded by the NRA — continue to refrain from doing so.

The debate over these gun accessories first flared up after the shooter in Las Vegas, who fired into a crowd of concertgoers and killed 58, modified a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock.

Mr Howard suffered a spate of bad polls in his first term, taking a hit from conservative voters over gun control and from moderate voters over the GST and failing to respond to the Pauline Hanson phenomenon.

It is part of a fresh wave of activism by public pensions in response to the outcry over gun violence.

Concern over gun investments has also come from pension funds.

Teenagers managed to break the deadlock over gun control.

An October 2017 Pew Research Poll found that gun owners were 75 percent more likely to contact elected officials over gun laws than non-owners were.

The aftermath of such deadly violence generally has been predictable: assessments of the shooter's personal history, remembrances of those killed, a tug - of - war over gun - control policies that ends up nowhere.

Yet the subtext of the discussion was a contentious debate over gun restrictions and an all - too - familiar cycle of outrage, activism and promises of action, and then the inevitable inertia of Washington because of the opposition by the National Rifle Association and its allies.

Teen survivors of the Florida high school shootings, their parents and other victims took the politician to task over gun control.

The financial services and investment community was even less engaged, staying mostly quiet on suggestions that it wield its considerable influence over gun merchants to encourage firearms - related changes.

Continuing arguments over gun rights and violence brought to mind Tocqueville's observation that he knew «no country where there prevails, in general, less independence of mind and less true freedom of discussion than in America.»

The bigger question, which simmers beneath the surface warfare over gun control, is Why?

Then, while we're watching, here comes this guy in a raincoat, ambling along in Spy Gear, salivating over the gun.

Cuomo trained his crosshairs on seven New York Republican House members over the gun issue as Trump rolled out a school - safety plan long on NRA ideas like arming teachers and short on Democratic - backed proposals like universal background checks.