Sentences with phrase «protecting gun rights»

North Carolina's Deborah Ross has to find a delicate balance between protecting gun rights and background checks.

Sandy King, chair of the Yates County Republican Committee, highlighted Kolb's support for lower taxes, protecting gun rights, reducing spending and addressing corruption in state government.

I surprised she didn't suggest that «god» gave them Trig so there would be another male around in case they needed to protect their gun rights and form a militia.

Not exact matches

«Instead of doing it to protect gun owners» rights, they appeared to be part of the [non-existent, right - wing paranoid delusion of an] assault on gun owners» rights,» he said.

In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as well.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite what the research says.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

Photographs depict truckloads of «good guys with guns» protecting students who are marching to restrict the gun rights of other Americans.

The onus, he said, was on the Senate to craft a bill that addressed the gaps in the current law but protected gun owners» rights.

i would say bringing harm to children or young people would be a definite... but yet the right wing «christians» can somehow justify dropping bombs on civilians... but sometimes maybe bombs have to be used to protect us or others, just like a person may need to use gun to protect himself or his family..

In his eyes the 2nd amendment is not really that important and doesn't protect individual gun rights or apply to certain types of rifles.

One belief they share is in the right not to be shot; another is in the need for a sane gun law to protect the common weal.

Ultimately the religious will never give up their gun's because they don't really have any faith in God to save them and feel they have to take the key's to life and death away from Jesus, then sit back and claim they are defending God and their rights when really they are shouting loud and clear «I DO N'T TRUST YOU TO PROTECT ME JESUS!!

The Constitution of this fine country protects your right to be a complete and utter moron as long as it involves relgion or guns.

Instead, gun rights are protected in order to ensure that the citizenry remains dominant over any centralized government that turns to corruption.

Of course, having a right to posses a gun to protect oneself is a selfish and unchristian.

The campaign includes the release of a Mother's Bill of Rights, laying out the basic rights the group believes moms want and need to protect their kids from gun vioRights, laying out the basic rights the group believes moms want and need to protect their kids from gun viorights the group believes moms want and need to protect their kids from gun violence.

Just as the first reports of the latest mass shooting started to trickle in on Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested Republicans prefer gun rights over protecting the country in a radio interview.

But even though the 5 - 4 majority ruling makes an intellectual end run around the language of the Second Amendment to get to their ruling, they very clearly state that society (government, convened to collectively protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from as individuals) has the right to, and legitimate interest in controlling gun ownership, in several specific ways.

The crux of this is not the degree to which guns are or are not protected by the Bill of Rights, though that does come into play when comparing these restrictions vs being able to travel on commercial airlines, for example.

This is an especially effective counter against the abstract «let the police protect you» counter argument against gun rights.

Firstly, gun rights are protected under the United States Constitution.

Gillibrand has said she would work to fight gun violence while still protecting hunters» rights.

Does the Second Amendment (2A) protect the right of any American to own any gun under any circumstance?

We came together, both Democrats and Republicans, to enact strict gun control measures because we fundamentally believed that we could both protect our communities while safeguarding the constitutional rights of law - abiding gun owners in our state.

Giordano's other priorities include protecting gun owners rights, and eliminating county contributions to medicaid in New York state.

Her position on guns has always been based on protecting the rights of sports hunters while keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals.

Supporters of gun rights in New York say there should be someone stationed at schools to protect students and teachers.

«From standing against Common Core to supporting responsible, bipartisan gun safety reforms while protecting our Second Amendment rights, I will continue to work hard on behalf of North Country families and small businesses.»

Gillibrand said neither she nor her husband is a hunter, and in a general discussion of gun control said, «If I want to protect my family, if I want to have a weapon in the home, that should be my right.»

Smyth said the law is flawed and that constitutional rights of gun owners must be upheld while concertgoers such as those who were killed or injured in the Las Vegas shooting must be protected.

«I'm voting for the progressive who will protect our planet from climate change and our communities from gun violence, who will reform our criminal justice system, and who believes that women's rights are human rights, and LGBT rights are human rights,» Chelsea Clinton said.

They have to legally protect themselves from gambling especially with the crap going on right now with gun violence in schools.

Constantly outgunned by poachers» high - tech helicopters, machine guns, night - vision binoculars, bullet - proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of «medicinal» rhino horns that are worth more than gold, one pissed - off game manager outside of Johannesburg, South Africa wants to do the unthinkable: inject poison into horns as a deadly warning to would - be poachers and the consumers who would buy them.According to South Africa's The Times, Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and Rhino Park outside of Johannesburg, says injecting poison into rhino's horns will protect them from poachers and kill the demand for rhino horn right at the source, which is prized as a medicinal ingredient in Asian medicine.

So if you really want to protect, you should hold the gun on your right and a tree seedling on your left.

On taxes, abortion, health, public safety, civil rights, gun control, and regulating industry to protect the environment, Bush is a staunch right - winger.

So why is your government interfering with your constitutionally protected right to own guns?

Que the: «We have the right to protect ourselves» statements and the fact that the Australian amnesty cost tax - payers [all together] half a billion dollars, which would be a fraction of the cost the US» attempt of retaining guns, and we can see why an amnesty seem less realistic for the land of the free.

If you have been charged with a gun crime, you need an experienced lawyer protecting your rights and interests.

Referring to the gun rights case Heller v. District of Columbia, Toobin writes that both «Scalia and Obama endorsed a Second Amendment that protected individual rights to own handguns but with limitations on more dangerous weapons [such as machine guns].

That consensus no longer exists — thanks largely to the work over the last 20 years of several leading liberal law professors, who have come to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns.»

It had previously already held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns in District of Columbia v. Heller.

If we want to prevent future atrocities, we must look for solutions that keep guns out of the hands of those who are a danger to themselves or others, while protecting the rights of law - abiding Americans,» Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement.

The group has said any effort to prevent future school shootings needs to «keep guns out of the hands of those who are a danger to themselves or others, while protecting the rights of law - abiding Americans.»

Protecting citizens from gun violence should take precedence over protecting gun owners» rights, a majority of voters said, according to a Fox News poll releasProtecting citizens from gun violence should take precedence over protecting gun owners» rights, a majority of voters said, according to a Fox News poll releasprotecting gun owners» rights, a majority of voters said, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday.