Sentences with phrase «stricter gun legislation»
The Van Buren students were among the estimated 800,000 people who took part in the March for Our Lives in support of stricter gun legislation.
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They survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School this past Valentine's Day that killed 17 of their peers and teachers and have since appeared on countless cable - news segments and magazine covers calling for stricter gun legislation.
Concerns that the government could pass stricter gun legislation under Democratic President Barack Obama led to record purchasing.
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We stand with the 51 percent of Americans who support stricter gun control legislation — a majority that will almost certainly increase in the coming days, as we take in the full horror of the Florida shooting.
Sen. Cory Booker, D - N.J., joins Senate Democrats in calling for stricter gun control legislation in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Orlando last week.
Malloy made changes to the state's pension system and pushed for the strictest gun control legislation in the country following the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown in December 2012.
More than one in five Americans (23 %) say gun legislation should remain as it is, and only 5 % think the laws covering gun sales should be less strict.
Critics of the legislation, which is among the most strict in the nation, say the law unfairly targets law - abiding gun owners.
Instead of fighting to repeal the entire set of stricter gun laws, a bi-partisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation to chip away at parts of the Safe Act that have proved hard to enforce, been rejected by a federal court, and, in one case, has not been implemented yet.
Seeking stricter gun control legislation, a crowd of moms, joined by actresses Julianne Moore and Melissa Joan Hart, marched across the Brooklyn Bridge into lower Manhattan behind a «MOMS DEMAND ACTION» banner yesterday.
A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an Orlando club.
The tweet came as Rubio's response to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said earlier in the day that Rubio «should be ashamed of» himself for not supporting stricter gun control legislation.
A nearly 15 - hour filibuster to push a vote on gun control legislation quickly elevated U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's national profile and cemented his place as a leader in the Democratic movement for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting at an...
Rep. Chris Collins announced last week he was introducing legislation to overturn the SAFE Act, New York's strict gun control law.
For some, the legislation marked an important first step toward stricter gun regulations and a vital response to the Parkland community's demand for action.
The aspiring journalist has interviewed students himself about the shooting and has become a prominent voice seeking stricter gun control legislation.
A particularly low - effort hoax spreading online in March 2018 — part of a wave of attempted smear campaigns directed at survivors of a February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida who are calling for stricter gun - control legislation — has led some people to accuse one of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivors of vandalism.
@Emma4Change and the children who marched through the city streets last weekend simply refused to accept their parents» defeatist assumption that even a 75 percent majority in want of stricter firearm legislation (according to an NPR poll released last week) was impotent against the wishes of an all - powerful gun lobby.