Sentences with phrase «stricter gun control laws»

Just like the young people advocating for stricter gun control laws, these students have the right to express their beliefs.

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

This bill would require stricter gun control laws and universal background checks for those trying to purchase guns.

The deadly shooting at a Texas church Sunday has renewed calls for stricter gun control laws in the United States.

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

In both cities, the call from survivors of the Parkland massacre last month is for Congress to pass stricter gun control laws and to end gun violence.

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.

The set of stricter gun control laws has galvanized New Yorkers, mainly from upstate.

The majority favor stricter gun control laws; think that illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in this country and eventually apply for citizenship; support a proposal requiring companies to cut greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming even if it means higher utility bills; believe that we should raise the minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 10.10 — or higher and support Medicaid expansion

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.

Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil all have very strict gun control laws yet those are some of the most violent countries in the world, all of them with way higher murder rates than the US.

The FBI is «stretched very thin» and lawmakers in Washington «prostitute themselves» to the NRA to block stricter gun control laws, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said during a TV appearance this morning.

A former congresswoman who survived a 2011 shooting led the call for stricter gun control laws on Wednesday after a 19 - year - old suspect opened fire at a Florida high school and killed at least 17.

We have taken the media by storm through appearances and interviews, met with state and federal lawmakers to beg them to enact much stricter gun control laws, and been joined in protest by students around the nation and the world who've held school walkouts and demonstrations that exhibit the energy and power of young people in full force.

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.

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

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — where 17 students and faculty were shot to death by a gunman on Valentine's Day — made the Sunday talk show rounds, urging lawmakers to adopt stricter gun control laws in the wake of the nation's most recent mass shooting.

Cox says there's lingering resentment in the Southern Tier district over the governor's decision to ban hydro fracking of natural gas, as well as stricter gun control laws and an overall sour economy.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to target stricter gun control laws in his State of the State address on Wednesday.

John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) is directing the film, which will see Chastain playing «a powerful lobbyist who sacrifices her career on Federal Hill in order to successfully pass an amendment enforcing stricter gun control laws.»

«Long - term goals... include strict gun control laws and banning of assault rifles, the AR15, or these types of weapons that have no place in our society.

They have repeatedly detailed their harrowing experience to national news networks, many calling for stricter gun control laws while decrying President Donald Trump for not doing enough to protect students.

The Post-ABC poll also finds that 58 percent of adults say stricter gun control laws could have prevented the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but there is no rise in support for banning assault weapons compared with two years ago and the partisan divide on this policy is as stark as ever.

«March for Our Lives» was started by survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and aims to pressure Congress to pass stricter gun control laws.

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.

Overall, 90 percent of Democrats, 50 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of gun owners now favor stricter gun control laws.

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.

In the NRA video, he criticized National School Walkout Day — in which students left classes to pay tribute to the 17 people killed at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School a month earlier and to demand stricter gun control laws.

Bratton's main point on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» appeared to be that law enforcement officers can not just surveil their way out of the problem of terrorism and mass shootings, but rather need stricter gun control laws to help them in their efforts.

«The reality is we do have very strict gun control laws, but all around us we're surrounding by states that don't,» she told reporters in Syracuse on Wednesday at a promotions ceremony for law enforcement.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is «stretched very thin» and lawmakers in Washington «prostitute themselves» to the National Rifle Association to block stricter gun control laws, said NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton during a television appearance on Tuesday morning.

Hudson Valley school superintendents on Monday called on state and federal officials to enact stricter gun control laws and increase funding for mental - health services for children and their families.

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.

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.

Jon Romano, who is serving time for a 2004 shooting at Columbia High School and is now 30, praised the survivors in Parkland, Fla., for their «courageous and inspiring» calls for stricter gun control laws.

Survivors of the deadly shooting rampage at a Parkland, Florida, high school led thousands Saturday in a March for Our Lives on Washington, delivering their impassioned pleas for stricter gun control law to the nation.

Hundreds of residents from around the Finger Lakes town of Canandaigua turned out Wednesday night at an educational forum on the NY SAFE Act, the strict gun control law passed by Governor Cuomo and the legislature in January.

«They're most often coming from places that don't have strict gun control laws,» she added.

Siena College's Steve Greenberg says Cuomo spent political capital when he aggressively pushed a strict gun control law through the legislature early in January.

Cuomo has been vocal in calling for more stringent gun control measures since the Parkland, Florida, shooting last month, citing New York's SAFE Act, which is among the strictest gun control laws in the nation.

A new poll finds Governor Cuomo is paying a political price with Republicans in New York for enacting the nation's strictest gun control laws.

New York has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, including the SAFE Act, which was passed in 2013 in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut.

He recycled several attacks on Mr. Astorino, the Westchester County executive: the governor said Mr. Astorino is the type of «ultra-conservative» «Washington» Republican that wants to repeal the state's strict gun control laws, over-turn abortion protections and somehow undo the law allowing same - sex marriage in the state.

Dubbed the «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act,» or SB 7026, the sweeping proposal provides for stricter gun control laws, including a three - day waiting period to buy any firearm, and a new age limit — 21 (up from 18)-- for firearms purchases, along with an all - out ban on bump stocks.

HARTFORD — The day after a self - radicalized gunman killed 49 people in a crowded Florida nightclub, members of Connecticut's congressional delegation said stricter gun control laws are necessary to aid in the fight against the Islamic State.

Connecticut's stricter gun control law, signed by Malloy after the school shooting in Newtown, is expected to feature prominently in the debate.

In 2000, Pataki helped lead the legislature in passing some of the then - strictest gun control laws in the country.