Sentences with phrase «tighter gun control laws»

In the days that followed the massacre, Stoneman Douglas survivors not only attended funerals for the slain students and staff, but also took political action, rallying together for tighter gun control laws.

ORIGINAL STORY: About 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School poured into the state Capitol this morning to call for tighter gun control laws in the wake of last week's massacre on their school campus, where they met with lawmakers and planned to join with college students for a noon rally.

On the eve of the march, Capitol Hill made big moves towards tighter gun control laws.

(Whoever wrote the possibly ricin - laced letters to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama may have been motivated by their calls for tighter gun control laws.)

Whoever wrote the possibly ricin - laced letters to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama may have been motivated by their calls for tighter gun control laws.

The shooting has spurred a public outcry for tighter gun control laws.

But he did find one telling correlation: States with tighter gun control laws have fewer gun - related deaths.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Not exact matches

When the proposed solution called for looser versus tighter gun - control laws, those with more liberal gun - control ideologies were more likely to downplay the frequency of violent home break - ins.