Sentences with phrase «to prevent gun violence»

We ask all parents and youth to join efforts advocating for these changes, and we urge voters to elect representatives who will take effective action to prevent gun violence in our nation.

According to the study authors, they may also help prevent gun violence at schools.

Just two days before the shooting, his administration released its fiscal year 2019 budget, which proposed cutting funding to crucial programs that help prevent gun violence and ensure school safety.

Fidan Ibrahimova told the Lincoln Journal Star that she liked what Kyle Kashuv said after the Feb. 14 attack, citing his thoughts on preventing gun violence without infringing on gun rights...

Last, we recognize and honor the power of student voice in speaking to the urgency of preventing gun violence in schools.

Guns do save live more than we realize by preventing gun violence because «the other guy» may shoot back.

«So that they can show their concern with preventing gun violence in schools or anywhere in our nation.»

Hockley co-founded and works as managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Newtown that works toward preventing gun violence through education in, as Hockley says, «those days, weeks, months, years before someone decides to pick up a firearm and hurt someone else or themselves.»

In addition to the patrols, Cuomo announced close to $ 500,000 in new funding for the GIVE and SNUG programs, which work to combat and prevent gun violence at the community level.

Working with the Erie Crime Analysis Center and law enforcement, prosecutors attempt to detect and prevent gun violence before it occurs by identifying on - going feuds and developing strategic leads to interrupt the violence.

Kestenbaum became known for her work to prevent gun violence after her daughter, Carol, was shot and killed in 2007.

He discusses why he believes arming teachers will not prevent gun violence, and proposes alternative ways the government can make schools safer environments for students.

NASP strongly opposes arming teachers as a strategy for preventing gun violence on school grounds.

Many of the Obama administration's proposals to prevent gun violence align with the experts» suggestions, but the committee danced around what could be the biggest barrier to implementing the recommendations: a lack of resources.

The pleas for action from Parkland, Florida, struck a sharp contrast with the almost nonexistent debate on Capitol Hill over preventing gun violence.

(New York, NY)-- Two weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention — a non-partisan coalition of legislators from across the country — announced today that lawmakers in 30 states have introduced or are planning to introduce Extreme Risk Protection Order legislation that would empower family members and law enforcement to help prevent gun violence.

Murphy is one of the Democratic Party's most outspoken proponents of preventing gun violence.

«Perhaps intervening early on these stigma - related factors could have downstream effects on preventing gun violence,» Earnshaw said.

About 8 in 10 Republicans say they prefer metal detectors (41 percent) and armed teachers (38 percent) to stricter gun laws (9 percent) when it comes to preventing gun violence in schools.

The current push is a peaceful march, the March For Our Lives, on March 24 in Washington D.C. to demand action to prevent gun violence.

Government control of guns to prevent gun violence ought to concentrate on the true problem and where the problem is.

(This will help produce food to feed the babies the pro-lifers want to be born) Prevent gun violence (make guns jam just before someone shoots) Prevent diseases (If we're the image of god, so are our diseases)

If there is one country that has been really effective in preventing gun violence, it is Japan.

As teachers returned today to a high school where a shooter killed 17 people, Florida's governor, Republican Rick Scott, proposed banning the sale of firearms to anyone younger than 21 as part of a three - point plan to prevent gun violence.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., co-founder of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, said, «While New York has long been a leader on gun control, there is still urgent work to be done to prevent gun violence in our homes and in our communities.

Fowler said law enforcement needs more help from the public in order to prevent gun violence.

As students in Florida and across the country demand stronger gun laws, legislators in New York are once again showing that states can take action to prevent gun violence.

(New York, NY)-- A week and a half after the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a coalition of New York legislators and gun violence prevention advocates today urged the State Senate and Assembly to promptly hold votes on a bill sponsored by Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon that would empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence.

«It is time for New York to empower families, police officers, and courts to take this practical, evidence - based step to prevent gun violence and save lives,» said Assemblymember Kavanagh.

(Albany, NY)-- Less than two weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, New York Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention — a bicameral coalition of New York lawmakers — released a package of bills to prevent gun violence in New York and save lives.

That's the message Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia expressed Sunday morning about the ongoing debate over how to prevent gun violence.

As a leader in the fight against gun violence, Kavanagh founded and spearheaded both national and state coalitions of legislators committed to preventing gun violence and advocating for policies and programs that keep our communities safe.

I am proud to support our law enforcement and legislative partners working to prevent gun violence in states across the country.»

He said students couldn't be expected to stay in class while there was work to do to prevent gun violence.

«Elise Stefanik is a strong supporter of both the 2nd Amendment and of commonsense, bipartisan reforms to protect our children and prevent gun violence in schools,» said Lenny Alcivar, a campaign spokesman.

«It is long past due for the House to consider legislation to prevent gun violence.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- The New York State Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation this week which closes loopholes and provides additional measures which lawmakers said will reduce and prevent gun violence in the state.

«New York is once again leading the way to prevent gun violence, and with this common sense reform, break the inextricable link between gun violence and domestic violence.»

At noon, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams announces winner of his $ 1M Smart Gun Design Competition, in which teams created proposals that will prevent gun violence, Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St., Brooklyn.

De Blasio announced last week that he would spend $ 12.7 million to prevent gun violence by expanding a pilot program using «violence interrupters» — primarily ex-gang members — to intervene in street disputes before they escalate.

The bill takes aim at suggestions that teachers and administrators should be trained and armed on school grounds to prevent gun violence.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley talked with a University at Buffalo expert who has joined the national «call for action'to prevent gun violence.

They were speaking at an event on Wednesday at the UConn Medical Center in Farmington, which was organized by Esty to mark a «National Day of Action'to prevent gun violence.

Rep. Kathleen Rice details her efforts to prevent gun violence to members of the Long Island Jewish Learning Network at the Central Synagogue of Nassau County in Rockville Centre on Sunday, April 10, 2016.