Sentences with phrase «refused by the gun»

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How many times, for example, have you heard economists insist that the US trade deficit was «caused» by the fact that Americans refuse to save, or, even more foolishly, that «no one held a gun to the American consumer's head and forced him to buy that flat - screen TV»?

To refuse to take a gun is to stand by while injustice does its work and the poor die of hunger.

The Aurora, CO shooter tried to get a membership to a gun range in Denver and was refused by the range master because he felt something was just not right about the guys mental state.

With Arsene Wenger once again driving the average Arsenal fan up the wall, going against conventional wisdom and baffling football pundits everywhere by sticking to his guns and refusing to get drawn into the ever increasing spending frenzy that is the summer transfer window, the odds against the Gunners ending the 12 year wait for a title get smaller by the day.

Meanwhile, gun advocates and libertarians say the bill would infringe on people's civil liberties and right to due process, by making it possible for the Attorney General to refuse someone a gun and deny certain information about why they'd been refused — without indicting that person or convicting them of a crime.

Cuomo, during a conference call with reporters, accused GOP members in Congress of «political pandering to the NRA» by refusing to consider gun control legislation — even after deadly shootings like the one in Texas on Sunday.

Democrats point to the gun lobby's donations to the GOP as a big reason the Senate has continued to refuse to pass the microstamping bill — even as crimes committed by perpetrators armed with illegal guns are plaguing law enforcement efforts in the city.

On the claims made by the President on the failure of Buhari to equip the military, he noted «Mr President is a man full of excuses and he keeps claiming, those who were in office before him refused to buy guns and that is why he can not curb the insecurity ravaging the country».

On his website, Mr. Ashby called the state's SAFE Act, a package of gun - control laws, a «sickening display of ignorance,» while Ms. Doran wrote on her Facebook page that she «refuses to stand by as mass shootings cause immeasurable heartache.»

The Lone Ranger may refuse to fire a gun unless absolutely necessary, but the film hardly shares his pacifist philosophy, its abundant carnage ranging from scary carnivorous rabbits to an ambush in which Butch kills half a dozen Texas Rangers and finishes the job by eating Dan Reid's heart.

Blu - ray Review The Warrior's Way Directed by: Sngmoo Lee Cast: Dong - gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush Running Time: 1 hr 40 mins Rating: R Due Out: June 28, 2011 PLOT: A warrior - assassin (Jang) is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.

After his father died from gun violence, Blackmon was raised by a strict mother, Stacie Blackmon, who «refused to lose me to the streets,» he said.

Here is an inspiring story of one man's courage to stick by his guns against an entrenched establishment and decades of stale traditions; to refuse sell his soul and his long - term rational self - interest, even for over a million bucks; and... Continue reading →

Here is an inspiring story of one man's courage to stick by his guns against an entrenched establishment and decades of stale traditions; to refuse sell his soul and his long - term rational self - interest, even for over a million bucks; and in the process, to become an innovator in a foundering industry.

But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in January 2004 refused to hear an appeal of a 2002 ruling by the Superior Court of Berks County that pigeon shoots held at private gun clubs do not violate state anti-cruelty law if «reasonable efforts» are made to minimize the resultant animal suffering.

Modern juries have protected their communities by refusing to convict individuals prosecuted for victimless licensing violations in cases related to raw milk, for conveying political messages in chalk on public sidewalks, for victimless violations of gun regulations inadvertently committed when crossing state lines, for victimless cases of medical and recreational use of drugs, and much more.

In a recent op - ed in the New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin argues that if Washington won't put stricter controls on gun sellers, the nation's financial institutions should do so, for instance by refusing to do business with retailers that sell assault weapons.