Sentences with phrase «strongest gun control»

New York generally is considered to have some of the strongest gun control laws in the country.

He led our state to be the first to pass the strongest gun control laws in the nation and passed marriage equality.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes for both campaign finance reform and the strongest gun control laws in the nation, the Center for Working Families is tying both those issues together.

Cuomo has pointed to the SAFE Act as one of the strongest gun control measures in the country and has largely emphasized a national push on the issue.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly pointed to the SAFE Act giving New York some of the strongest gun control measures in the country.

After Newtown, you said, «If you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don't think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen.»

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Julia Salomone, 18, and sister Lindsey, 15, celebrate with other students as their bus leaves Coral Springs bound for Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, to demand stronger gun control.

Officials were already pitching the plan as a continuation of Cuomo's «progressive» agenda for New York, which the governor counts as including a sharp rise in the minimum wage, the marriage equality law and stronger gun control provisions known as the SAFE Act.

During his two terms representing New York Senate's 15th district, Senator Addabbo has fought for the issues that matter most to his constituents including the creation of jobs, access to affordable health care, stronger gun control laws, senior services, and quality education.

In it, Zeff defended Mayor Bloomberg for being outspoken about the need for stronger gun control laws in the wake of the Aurora, Colo. shooting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a radio interview Thursday continued to press the case for gun control on the national level and for congressional Democrats to call the question with a strong gun control bill.

Cuomo has clarified in recent weeks his remarks that he would support a government shutdown over the issue, saying Democrats should leverage power through the threat of a shutdown by pushing for strong gun control laws, similar to how Republicans in Congress have staged similar protests over Planned Parenthood and spending issues.

New York (WBEN / AP)- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo favors stronger gun control, but says it must be done at the federal level.

And the governor has reiterated his push for stronger gun control laws nationally in the wake of a series of mass shootings.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo favors stronger gun control, but says it must be done at the federal level.

Democrats, women, liberals, moderates, New York City, black, and Jewish voters and voters over the age of 55 said the incident should lead to stronger gun control laws, while Republicans, men, conservatives, and upstaters said some acts of violence simply can't be prevented.

Days later, a New York Times editorial called for stronger gun control laws in response to the murders, pointing to the ease with which Ferguson obtained a handgun in California, which had one of the country's stricter gun laws at the time.

Gov. Dannel Malloy talks about stronger gun control measures while on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

There is a loud minority of New Yorkers who have soured on the governor over his steps toward stronger gun control, but numerous polls have shown that the SAFE Act has support as Cuomo continues his progressive lean in 2015 and maintains gun control as a signature issue in his second term.

The calls for stronger gun control measures by New York state's elected officials are by no means sudden or shocking.

Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, appeared on The Capitol Pressroom to voice his group's opposition to stronger gun control laws.

If any legislature in the country had the political momentum to quickly pass strong gun control laws this year it seemed that Connecticut did, where 26 children and women were killed in the Newtown school massacre Dec. 14.

Cuomo, eager to be seen as the first governor in the country to pass stronger gun control laws in the wake of the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, pressured Senate Republicans to pass his package of laws, known collectively as the SAFE Act.

Dr O'Brien said: «Coming from countries with strong gun control policies, and a 30-fold lower rate of gun - related homicides, we found the arguments for opposing gun control counterintuitive and somewhat illogical.

The experimental study required participants to respond to persuasive political policy statements such as «You should support stronger gun control laws,» «You should support deportation of illegal immigrants,» or «You should support same - sex marriage,» delivered with different pitched voices.

UPDATE 12:58 p.m.: Thousands of students and supporters rallied at the state Capitol to call for stronger gun control measures, including students who survived last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and hundreds of college students who marched from Florida State University and Florida A&M University.

On that day, students across the country are planning walkouts and other events to demand stronger gun control.

It certainly helps that the leaders of the movement to implement stronger gun controls are articulate and smart, often seeming far more articulate and much smarter than the politicians who oppose them.

The students said they wanted to encourage others to use their voices, honor the victims of Parkland, and seek stronger gun control measures.

Equity Team member senior Shawn Pollard said honoring the victims and encouraging stronger gun control were also key messages at the event.

Tim takes a moment to recognize all the student marches across the nation this past weekend calling for stronger gun control.

(CNN)- Florida school shooting victim Carmen Schentrup would have turned 17 years old on Wednesday, and her classmates and survivors of the massacre marked her birthday by flooding the state capital to demand stronger gun control laws.

The latest episode has prompted a renewed and growing call for stronger gun control.

-- Oprah Winfrey, Clooneys give $ 500,000: Oprah Winfrey has joined George and Amal Clooney in pledging to donate $ 500,000 to the March for Our Lives, a demonstration to advocate stronger gun control after the Parkland shooting.

The group from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland stopped in Orlando while returning home from Tallahassee after advocating for stronger gun control laws, CNN affiliate WESH reported.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was challenged at a town hall Wednesday night by angry students, teachers and parents who were demanding stronger gun control measures after the school shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school.

High school students and allies seeking stronger gun control laws in North Carolina following last month's Florida school shootings walked through downtown Raleigh in solidarity with a similar weekend rally in Washington.

So four days after the shooting, she tweeted an offer to host young protesters coming to Washington for the newly announced March For Our Lives rally in support of stronger gun control measures.

Not exact matches

Brimmer: Absolutely, I think around gun control is a great example, and there are a number of companies that took very strong stances.

POTUS & VPOTUS support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don't want gun control,» Cox said.

However, there is still strong resistance by many in the party to any gun - control measures, leaving the fate of new restrictions unclear.

Their message for tougher gun control was strong, but their numbers were much sparser than at more recent demonstrations.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Back for a return engagement, President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to...

The research supports gun control: A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives.

the Republican governor said at a news conference, taking an unusually strong stance on a gun control issue.

Back for a return engagement, President Donald Trump's address to the National Rifle Association on Friday comes after he temporarily strayed from the group's strong opposition to tougher gun controls following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida — only to rapidly return to the fold.

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 magazine's strong Christian lobby has also ranged from Vietnam to postal rates, from gun control (pro) to child abuse (con), from amnesty (a la Ford) to television programming to crime in the streets.

Jones» Sandy Hook conspiracy borrows emotional weight from the gun control debate, as he claims that the massacre was orchestrated to strong - arm the public into accepting stricter firearm regulations.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, meanwhile, has reiterated a push for gun control on the national level, pointing to the SAFE Act, approved in 2013, as one of the strongest measures for gun control in the country.