Sentences with phrase «take action on gun»

Many students at the school, located roughly 40 miles north of Miami, have spoken out since the massacre, pleading with politicians to take action on gun violence.

The survivor was the first student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to publicly challenge a politician to take action on gun legislation.

On the one month anniversary of the shooting, students across the country walked out of class in protest, calling for lawmakers to take action on gun violence.

(CNN)- Speaker after speaker at March for Our Lives rallies around the US urged lawmakers to take action on gun control or face consequences at the voting booth.

Students at the Florida high school have demanded that Trump and Congress take action on gun control following the deadly shooting.

While at Mar - a-Lago over the long weekend, Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss the Republican Party's agenda, as calls grow for both the administration and Congress to take action on gun control in the wake of a deadly shooting at a nearby Florida high school.

Tyra Hemans, 19, holds up a photo of her slain friend as she asks senators to take action on gun control.

(CNN) Nearly a week after a gunman stormed the hallways of their school in a deadly rampage, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are heading to Florida's state Capitol to demand lawmakers take action on gun control.

Students and activists have rallied in the week after a gunman killed 17 at a Florida high school to demand lawmakers take action on gun control.

Major North American companies say they are taking action on gun control because the government won't: CNBC survey.

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Students, teachers and lawmakers have urged Trump and other Republican lawmakers to take action on guns in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

To date, the Trump administration has stuck to discussing taking action on guns, not actually lobbying Congress on moving any new legislation.

Congress hasn't taken action on gun control, and President Trump, who initially supported a higher age limit for purchasing assault rifles, later backed off, putting forward a plan that included a proposal to arm teachers instead.

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The company is calling on lawmakers to take action on «common sense gun reform,» including measures to address mental health, improve background checks, raise the age to buy a gun, and ban bump stocks and other similar accessories.

The president said in his weekly radio address on Friday that a few months ago he directed his team to look into any new actions he could take to help reduce gun violence.

«Recent events demonstrate the need for additional action on the part of responsible gun retailers,» Kroger said in a statement, calling the changes «common sense steps we can take immediately.»

According to Swanson's study on the effectiveness of risk - based gun removal laws in Connecticut, for every 10 to 20 risk warrant actions taken, with an average of seven firearms being removed in each act, one life is saved through averted suicide.

Much like Wednesday's event, organizers of the #ENOUGH walkout are demanding that Congress take legislative action on gun control.

About 100 of those students converged on the state Capitol in Tallahassee on Wednesday to demand that lawmakers take action against gun violence.

While Congress dithers, companies are taking action on issues like gun control.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump refused to even utter the word «gun» in a seven - minute speech on the shooting, instead taking a swipe at demands for actioOn Thursday, Mr. Trump refused to even utter the word «gun» in a seven - minute speech on the shooting, instead taking a swipe at demands for actioon the shooting, instead taking a swipe at demands for action.

Lawmakers will return to Washington today facing intense public pressure to break their decades - long gridlock on gun control, a demand fortified by a bipartisan group of governors calling for Congress to take action to protect against mass shootings.

Students at more than a dozen school in central and northern New York are expected to take part in a national high school walkout today to demand action on gun control.

In the wake of the massacre in Parkland, Florida, Congress should take action to curb gun violence, according to U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D - Upper West Side, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst), who spoke about the tragedy on the House floor the day after it took place.

«While we took a great step forward with our historic legislation, without action from Congress, known criminals will continue to buy guns in other states today and sell them on the black market in New York tomorrow.»

He went on to say that government has been «delinquent» on the issue of guns because it was politically difficult to take action.

The NRA and several presidential candidates, are rapidly taking aim at President Obama's expected executive action on gun control, just days after reports emerged on his plan to tackle America's firearm scourge.

On the NYPD front, Bratton said Monday that he has not ruled out taking additional action — even though four top commanders have been removed from their posts, and a detective lost his gun and badge for taking the Fifth Amendment.

«Ever since the massacre we have called on elected leaders to step up and take action on bump stocks to help reduce gun violence.

Two people spoke out in support of the students» decision to voice their opinions but said they wanted to ensure whatever actions were taken would not infringe on their rights as gun owners.

Moments later, Beck is taking on «the entire offensive line» of an American pro-football team with little effort, and it is as though Arnie has been reincarnated on screen — except that, while Beck may be a kick - ass «retrieval expert» of bull - like proportions and astonishing resilience, he is also genuinely eager to avoid violence («I don't want to fight» being his catchphrase), phobic about gun - use (until the inevitable pump - action finale, naturally), and really just interested in opening his own restaurant — and, unlike the he - men portrayed by Arnie, Sly and other eighties right - wingers (most of whom have in fact gone on to open their own restaurants), Beck can bang articulate sentences together as well as heads.

According to Deadline, Vikander will take on the lead role in Freakshift, which they describe as «an all - guns - blazing action thriller about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters.»

One or two players take control of their favorite Joes from the movie and take on Cobra across multiple levels of run - and - gun action.

Russell Crowe, the star of The Nice Guys — Shane Black's action comedy about a pair of misfit guns for hire who are trying to track down a missing porn star — talks to Andrew Pulver about how it takes a lot of effort to make effortlessly funny comedy, and the lengths he and his his co-star Ryan Gosling went to to make a scene in which Gosling is sat on the toilet realistic

It is part an indictment of the ludicrous mandatory sentence drug laws, and part dramatic thriller, while only delivering on one big action scene late in the film involving Matthews trying to drive a semi containing a shipment of cash through the border to Mexico, while trying to avoid men with machine guns driving cars trying to take him down.

Nasty on principle and not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, the new action - thriller from filmmaker Ben Wheatley (High - Rise, Kill List) takes Godard's old proclamation — «all you need for a movie is a gun and a girl» — to its furthest extreme.

For those worried about being at the mercy of the RNG gods though, fear not, SteamWorld Heist focuses on action orientated gameplay with you in complete control of aiming your guns and taking down enemies.

Students from Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights recently took to the streets to demand action on gun control and to challenge the criminalization of youth of color.

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On the show floor at E3, Twisted Pixel showed off a few new gameplay features too: dual - gun shootdowns, sidescrolling action, which looks quite similar to the amazing Comic Jumper, and a sequence where you are taken into Gunstringer's past, in his flesh and blood form.

Ride around this open - world action adventure on your motorbike, using tactics and the zombies to help you take out your foes whilst using either stealth or guns to progress through missions and objectives.

So Immortal Redneck is all about running - and - gunning in first - person action, with a strong emphasis placed on going all - guns blazing and jumping around the joint rather than tactically seeking cover or taking your time — as long as you've got some fast reactions and a bloody good aim, you'll be fine.

Rather than putting an emphasis on explosive action and run n» gun antics, the Sniper Elite series has always been about taking a cautious approach and planning your kills.

After leading the March for Our Lives in Washington, now they're taking their call for action to the home turf of U.S. representatives and senators — pushing them to hold town halls on gun control while...

After leading the March for Our Lives in Washington, now they're taking their call for action to the home turf of U.S. representatives and senators — pushing them to hold town halls on gun control while currently home on recess.

Gonzalez's classmate, David Hogg, who has publicly called on lawmakers to «take some action» against guns in the wake of the shooting, responded similarly.

They're demanding that Congress take legislative action on gun control in the wake of last week's deadly school shooting in Florida instead of merely tweeting their thoughts and prayers.

Spradlin, who is the president of the Young Democrats Club on campus, said there were three reasons the students participated in the walkout: first was to honor the lives of the victims; second was to show Congress that students care about the issue of gun violence; and third was to take direct action by registering students to vote and writing to members of Congress to demand change.

But even with claims of historic social momentum on the issue of gun control, the AP poll also found that nearly half of Americans do not expect elected officials to take action.