Sentences with phrase «tighter gun legislation»

Since the Parkland tragedy, the national news has been filled with the school's student survivors, who rose up to protest school shootings and demand — in eloquent and defiant terms — tighter gun legislation.

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Not long after 20 young children and 6 adults were gunned down by a lone assailant at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut the U.S. Senate also rejected tighter background check legislation.

While several Senate GOP lawmakers have expressed a willingness to back new gun control legislation such as tighter background checks and a ban bump stocks, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said his conference's «primary focus» remains on strengthening school security.

Calls for tighter gun control legislation come as a gunmen killed 26 people in a Connecticut elementary school, including 20 children, before killing himself.

Hogg, who has become a high - profile advocate for tighter gun safety legislation since the attack, said during the interview that: «I think it's disgusting, personally.