Sentences with phrase «own gun control law»

Others buy them in case U.S. gun control laws become stricter.

Over the weekend, Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and Republican who previously ran for president, suggested that student protestors should learn CPR instead of pushing for stricter gun control laws.

The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.

While federal gun control laws are stalled, the group's school violence prevention training programs are expanding rapidly across the country, including to the Los Angeles public school district.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Though several states tightened their gun laws in response, years of impassioned public campaigning by Sandy Hook victims» families have not brought any expansion of federal gun control laws.

To celebrate what would be her and John Lennon's 44th wedding anniversary last week, Yoko Ono tweeted out a photo of the murdered singer's bloodied glasses to promote gun control laws.

And some states have backed away from loosening gun control laws.

But he did find one telling correlation: States with tighter gun control laws have fewer gun - related deaths.

Some 58 % of those polled said stricter gun control laws would have prevented the Florida shooting.

«Students have been reaching out to me, reaching out to staff, probably board members and others saying that now — now is the time for this country to have a real conversation on sensible gun control laws,» he said.

The shooting has spurred a public outcry for tighter gun control laws.

Nashville Mayor David Briley (D) demanded more gun control laws after a man, who had his firearms seized in 2017, opened fire on an Antioch, Tennessee, Waffle House.

In the days following the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students who witnessed the deaths of their peers traveled to the Florida State Capitol to demand stricter gun control laws.

Students at thousands of schools across the United States walked out of class Wednesday morning to pressure Congress and state lawmakers to pass gun control laws.

It's that our gun control laws are too lax.

There is also a strong partisan divide on whether stricter gun control laws could have prevented last week's Florida shooting, closely mirroring support for such restrictions.

Asked about mass shootings more broadly, the public says by a roughly 2 to 1 margin that they reflect problems identifying and treating people with mental health problems rather than inadequate gun control laws.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

In his remarks Sunday night at an interfaith service at in Newtown, Connecticut, President Barack Obama vowed to use «whatever power» he has to prevent more mass shootings, and he all but promised to push for stricter gun control laws in the next U.S. Congress.

However, because people either fear guns or desperately want violent crimes to be reduced and see guns as their cause, they will still believe that gun control laws will actually protect them, as fallacious as that idea is.

And the research about the effectiveness of gun controls laws seems mixed at best.

I live in Canada and due to our strict gun control laws we are not seeing the same types of insane killing and I'm thankful for that.

He lives in a town with some of the strictest gun control laws in the US and yet is the Murder capital of the US.

The results for item I suggest that NARAL members were significantly more likely to favor gun control laws than NRLC members.

Historically, mass shootings don't usually lead to stricter regulation on gun control laws — they actually loosen them in states with Republican legislatures.

the last subway incident was a hate crime, guns are here and they are not going anywhere, I support stricter gun control laws, ban all assault weapons, and sever punishment for the crimes committed with firearms, no insanity plea accepted, just hang them

Like all such crimes it shows that we need stricter gun control laws.

Keyword on this issue is looking at SENSIBLE gun control laws and screening process to mitigate the risk of this happening.

Any jurisdiction, anywhere that's legislated additional gun control laws hasn't benefited from it, whether it's been Washington, DC, Great Britain, or Australia or Canada.

When you look at modern cultures that have strict gun control laws, the crazy maniacs who are set on killing people just use other tools to kill people, like bombs, machetes, and cars.

Hey Cappy, jealous that Canada has gun control laws; or universal health care or is it jealousy over our secularism and the fact that we really just don't give a damn what you think?

To those who claim that improving gun control laws and restricting the sale of assault - type rifles wouldn't do a thing to keep this sort of tragedy from happening: How do you know?

It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).

Indeed, Cuomo could be a victim of his early and highly consequential successes — the history making legalization of same - sex marriage, a cap on property tax increases, a sweeping gun control law, an ongoing effort to restrain Medicaid growth — from his first term.

After an eventful four years as governor, Cuomo is running on his record of accomplishments: A property tax cap, the legalization of same - sex marriage, a sweeping gun control law and enacted budgets that have kept spending increases under 2 percent.

The staunch opposition comes after Cuomo has been able to get the Senate GOP, now in a governing coalition with four independent Democrats, to hold votes on a variety of liberal causes, most recently the gun control law in January.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked hard, first behind the scenes and later openly, to pass the country's first - in - the - nation gun control laws after the shootings in Connecticut that killed 20 children.

As expected, Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved an amendment to the January gun control law that would exempt retired law enforcement from certain aspects of the law.

He singled out Skelos in particular for «treason» over allowing a vote on the SAFE Act, the 2013 gun control law.

Panepinto has broken with his party and co-sponsored four pieces of legislation that would adjust the sweeping gun control law.

Cuomo has bristled at implications his progressive bona fides don't stack up and his supporters have pointed to a raft of accomplishments during his time as governor, including the passage of a minimum wage hike that eventually grows to $ 15 in the coming years in the New York City area, paid family leave, a sweeping gun control law, the legalization of same - sex marriage and regulations that bolster the rights of transgender New Yorkers.

If the Assembly passes the bill today — and it appears that it will at this point — New York would be the first state to enact a new gun control law in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 children.

Examples of this include gun control laws, SEC / stock market regulation, environmental regulations, laws against smoking, drinking, behavior, etc..

Late in the day Friday, Sen. James Seward of Oneonta issued a press release taking credit for compelling the «first ever changes to governor's gun control law.»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Monday said it was unlikely Democratic lawmakers will take up changes to the SAFE Act, calling amendments to the gun control law in his chamber «challenging.»

Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns believes the pact might be too good to be true, because New York still hasn't worked out all the kinks in its own gun control law, the SAFE Act.

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

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.

Registered (gun owning) Democrat here, pretty sure we already had some of the toughest gun control laws in the country.