Sentences with phrase «people on terror»

Murphy says Congress should also pass legislation to prevent people on the terror watch lists from purchasing guns.

Indeed, federal law allows people on terror watch lists to purchase guns, and thousands of them have done so.

Top New York officials are asking the federal government to help the state to block people on the terror watch list from legal gun purchases.

De Blasio penned a letter to congressional GOP leaders, asking House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to back a bill that would prohibit people on terror watch lists, which bar them from boarding airplanes, from buying firearms.

Top New York officials are asking the federal government to help the state to block people on the terror

Democratic challengers in some of this year's most competitive races are appealing to Americans» fears about terrorism to broach gun control, specifically by calling out Republican incumbents for not backing New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King's bill, first introduced nine years ago, to prevent people on the terror watch list from purchasing firearms.

The issue becomes contentious due to the criteria used to put people on a terror watch list, or declare them to have mental health problems.

Are people on a terror watch list or judged to have mental health issues, denied the ability to purchase or drive a vehicle?

The latest (but not recent) episode I remember is this vote from June 2016, when the US senate rejected restrictions on sale of weapons to people on the terror watch list.

O.B.L. had no consideration for innocent people on his terror spree yet we take care in trying to reduce collateral damage when we fight his forces; we take their lives into consideration.

According to the report, last year people on the terror watch list attempted to buy guns on 244 occasions — 223 were «allowed to proceed.»

In fact, since background checks have included people on the terror watch list, people on the list that attempted to by guns 2,477 different times.

Not exact matches

In the wake of the murder of 49 people and the wounding of 53 in Orlando last weekend, Senate Democrats have won the chance to vote Monday on two narrow gun control proposals they sponsored: expanding background checks and barring terror suspects from buying guns.

Cornyn and other Republicans argue that Feinstein's bill would deny due process to people who may be on the terror list erroneously.

The Metropolitan Police said more officers than usual would be on duty in the area throughout the march, which was held just days after a terror attack on Westminster that killed four people and injured 50.

But that kind of targeted tracking would not require broad access to records of people unconnected to terror suspects and their known associates, which is hinted at by both Sen. Udall's remarks and the high rate of modifications imposed on Section 215 orders by the FISA court.

I bet you if a bunch of people start praying in Spanish on a flight originating from Arizona, they would treat this as a terror case and deport these people quickly.

Dr Antony McRoy's been speaking to Premier after Mr Choudhary was convicted of terror offences, having encouraged people to join Islamic State - a banned organisation which has waged war on Britain.

If I were wreaking havoc on various parts of the world in the name of Jesus, and I or my fellow Christians were not willing to denounce clearly and sincerely that terror, I would expect people to view me in that way.

Very Rev Andrew Dunn, Dean of Southwark Cathedral, told Premier: «I would be encouraging, on this feast of Pentecost, for people to remember the Spirit drove those apostles out of the place where they'd taken refuge from terror and into the streets, proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ in every language to every people and thrilling their hearts.

On television screens and on the covers of newsmagazines the picture is a constant one: innocent people fleeing their homes to escape the terror of violent and inhuman authoritieOn television screens and on the covers of newsmagazines the picture is a constant one: innocent people fleeing their homes to escape the terror of violent and inhuman authoritieon the covers of newsmagazines the picture is a constant one: innocent people fleeing their homes to escape the terror of violent and inhuman authorities.

He had such power and authority that `... the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out together as one» (1 Samuel 11:7).

Some people seem to want to do very little, for fear of antagonising Muslim extremists, while others talk of a «war on terror» as a way of eliminating these same extremists.

A war on terror is not about capturing people and killing them.

They have a proven track record as a people not to be trusted and they are historically a religion bent on terror and violence.

if the Muslims want to show good faith how bout stepping out against the acts of terror on the Jewish and American people.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Here we have people denying security for people in Libya on 9/11, refusing to go to their rescue and then pretending the terror attack didn't even happen.

I only make sure to define these men as communist because whether or not they were «just following orders» or not, their bloody reigns of terror were brought on because they had an unquenchable thirst for power and allowing people to worship something other than the supreme leader didn't cut it.

And when he said my name, the team told me later they had never seen such terror on a person's face.

how many more mistakes are you American people going to make 7/11 shook your country to the core allowing a mosque near or on this site will make you a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and the small number of muslims who think terror is right will think thay have one yet another chapter on ther fight against the west so on that ground only i think the best thing for the site would be a peoples park where people from all walks of life and religious back ground can be as one A.R WATTS, E ngland

On the basis of the majority of the identified perpetrators of September 11 being Saudi Arabians, including the alleged plotter and financier, Osama bin Laden, one could conclude that what has been behind the September 11 incident, and some of the earlier incidents of terror, is the religious worldview of the Wahhabiya (ahl - al - tawhid «People of Unity») movement.

«On the one hand, we have somebody who - if he isn't redeemed - faces death or danger or captivity, versus a theoretical possibility that someone could be harmed if these people go back to terror,» he said.

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»

But what hurt them as much, or indeed more than anything else, was the singing of the paean, from the perplexity which it caused by being nearly the same on either side; the Argives and Corcyraeans and any other Dorian peoples in the army, struck terror into the Athenians whenever they raised their paean, no less than did the enemy.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

«On the one hand, we have somebody who — if he isn't redeemed — faces death or danger or captivity, versus a theoretical possibility that someone could be harmed if these people go back to terror».

He reflects carefully on the basic dilemma» that defending democracy and its rights and liberties may require an abrogation of at least some of those rights and liberties, at least for some persons and for a limited time» and he explicitly sets out to make a moral argument rather than the legal and political - theory arguments favored among critics of the war on terror.

According to the Egypt Independent, Rasha Magdi made the comment when reporting on last Friday's terror attack on a mosque that killed more than 300 people and injured more than 100 others.

Only a delusional person would — in the midst of a partner's appendectomy, her own bring - you - to - your - knees - ear infection, a family cold, an infant taking up crawling and a toddler on Winter Break terror — think it sure time to take on a sourdough starter.

The «War on Drugs»; «War on Terror»; «War on Communism» and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People — an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence.

Because of Wenger and our many French players over the years we are a popular team in France and so the boss suggested that today's game was a good opportunity to bring some happiness to people while also being a good chance for the players to focus on something other than the terror attacks.

The near - promise of «global terrorism» in America after 9/11 managed to scare people into quietly taking off their shoes in airports, and yet the ACTUAL promise that we will continue to experience domestic terror on a truly frightening scale only leads to more Second Amendment rhetoric and pro-gun galvanizing.

Control orders, which place severe restrictions on the movements of people deemed terror suspects, were introduced by the Labour government.

A YouGov poll yesterday afternoon — the first on terror laws since the Miranda arrest — found 66 % of people supported schedule seven, compared to 22 % who opposed it.

The Israeli position is that it is unreasonable to expect them to submit to terror attacks and rocket attacks on its people from the Palestinians.

She was speaking after a day of meetings with Muslim leaders on how to cope with the radicalisation of many young people, in the wake of last week's thwarted terror plot.

.@KTHopkins on UK terror: «People are cowed.

The commentators present the EU as a colossal machine intent on reigning regulatory terror on innocent people — no one, but no one, can escape its wrath.

«The practical thing that we can do right now, if we are willing, to take on the corporate gun lobby is close what some people call the «terror gap,»» she said of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen's ability to obtain an assault - style rifle used to carry out Sunday's mass killing.