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When I got to the house and started talking to Trail Aaron family, I was like, ‘ Oh, man, he checks all the dream boxes – comes from an amazing family, is in between two girls, has two sisters, his mom is his best friend, loves to hike, loves to bike … ’. – Patricia Toro It	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today’s move by the General Assembly to repeal our pistol permit law has made our communities less safe. Now, dangerous people – like violent criminals and domestic abusers – will be able to more easily get their hands on guns, too many worry that their kids may not come home from school. Gun violence is a terrifying threat, and eliminating background checks will make the job of law enforcement officers more difficult. While our legislators failed us, I’ll continue to do everything in my power to keep people in our state safe. – Josh Stein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I love the brand’s voice and mission — it makes such a meaningful impact not only with its medicine, but in the way people talk about their bodies and digestive health, it really checks all the boxes. – Demi Moore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Again, the key is not resting on anybody’s good will or virtue, it’s checks and balances, the rule of law, the integrity of officials. – Samantha Power	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's a considerable amount of money, and it's something that's actually concerned me the whole time with this account because it's unusual. It's not set up in the traditional way of doing government, even the things that are usually available to me as treasurer are not available in this instance. We have to just rely on the information from the Public Protection Cabinet, which is why we're all of a sudden seeing these checks that are sent to the erroneous people. So, it's a problem. – Allison Ball	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
First it was 400,000 unread emails and 120,000 people in need of unemployment checks, then it was chaos and preventable criminal acts in our juvenile justice detention centers, and now Andy's sending checks to people who weren't even close to the disaster zone in Western Kentucky. – Ryan Quarles	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ronald Reagan really used it exclusively to describe the welfare queen that had numerous names, Social Security numbers, different husbands, different welfare checks, reporters all over the country ran out searching for this welfare queen, and really couldn’t find her. – Gwen Moore	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one. – Gavin Newsom	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact, i have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one. – Gavin Newsom	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s important to remember that in his statement to police said he got a checkbook, used only two checks and threw the rest of the checkbook in a manhole, i don’t believe that, I believe he defrauded other companies and other people. – Bruno Simões	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Adding offensive firepower and improving our power play were priorities this offseason, and Max certainly checks those boxes. – Don Waddell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Democrats pushed for an assault weapons ban, I said no. They tried to get a new three-week mandatory waiting period for all gun purchases, I said no. Universal background checks, magazine bans, licensing requirements, the list goes on and on and on. And I said no, no, 1,000 times no, so, you might ask,' What is on the table ?' More mental health resources, more support for John Cornyn schools, and making sure that violent criminals and the mentally ill can not buy a firearm. – John Cornyn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Democrats pushed for an assault weapons ban, I said no, they tried to get a new three-week mandatory waiting period for all gun purchases, I said no. Universal background checks, magazine bans, licensing requirements, the list goes on and on and on. And I said no, no, 1,000 times no. – John Cornyn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You can not simply remove major wheat production, major food oil production, major fertilizer production, major oil production, major natural gas production, major production of [ semiconductor ] chips used in automobiles and think you're not going to get inflation, when it gets presented in the American news, you get this idea that if our stimulus checks had been lower, and if our wages had gone lower, that we wouldn't have this inflation. Nobody in the world accepts that as the viewpoint. – Mark Zandi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we can't ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21; strengthen background checks; enact safe storage and red flag laws; repeal the immunity, that protect gun manufacturers from liability; address the mental health crisis, deepening the trauma of gun violence. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In a less broken society, we would be able to require background checks every single time someone wants to buy a gun, and we would ban assault rifles outright, but if even one life is saved or one attempted mass shooting is prevented because of these regulations, we believe that it is worth fighting for. – David Hogg	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We need background checks, we need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them. – Matthew McConaughey	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We're not going to put a piece of legislation on the table that will ban assault weapons or pass comprehensive background checks, right now, people in this country want us to make progress, they just don't want the status quo to continue for another 30 years. – Chris Murphy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction toward trying to prevent the kind of tragedy we saw this week in Uvalde — in my beloved, weeping TEXAS, i'm Larry Gatlin, but the 2nd Amendment should not apply to everyone. It's that simple. – Larry Gatlin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They're listening to the NRA, they're listening to the people who write them checks, who keep them in power because that's the way politics work. That's the idea we settle on, that's what we tell ourselves, but it doesn't have to be that way. Not for this. – Jimmy Kimmel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He was also struck by how she swiftly dismantled conspiracy theories put forward in bad faith.They’ve been debunked by numerous fact checks, experts, and the record itself. – Chris Meagher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The amount is increasing every day, we literally receive checks in the mailbox and even cash. People are sending cash from all over the states. – Anna Afanasieva	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was wondering if you’d like to swap checks. – Susie Maxwell Berning	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We know that sexual violence is so rarely reported and we know that convictions are so incredibly rare even when it is reported, you're going to be missing a lot of really dangerous people through using criminal records and background checks as a proxy for safety. It can create this false sense of safety when it shouldn't be there. – Nicole Bedera	Found on CNN 2 years ago

When I got to the house and started talking to Trail Aaron family, I was like, ‘ Oh, man, he checks all the dream boxes – comes from an amazing family, is in between two girls, has two sisters, his mom is his best friend, loves to hike, loves to bike … ’.

– Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today’s move by the General Assembly to repeal our pistol permit law has made our communities less safe. Now, dangerous people – like violent criminals and domestic abusers – will be able to more easily get their hands on guns, too many worry that their kids may not come home from school. Gun violence is a terrifying threat, and eliminating background checks will make the job of law enforcement officers more difficult. While our legislators failed us, I’ll continue to do everything in my power to keep people in our state safe.

– Josh Stein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I love the brand’s voice and mission — it makes such a meaningful impact not only with its medicine, but in the way people talk about their bodies and digestive health, it really checks all the boxes.

– Demi Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Again, the key is not resting on anybody’s good will or virtue, it’s checks and balances, the rule of law, the integrity of officials.

– Samantha Power

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a considerable amount of money, and it's something that's actually concerned me the whole time with this account because it's unusual. It's not set up in the traditional way of doing government, even the things that are usually available to me as treasurer are not available in this instance. We have to just rely on the information from the Public Protection Cabinet, which is why we're all of a sudden seeing these checks that are sent to the erroneous people. So, it's a problem.

– Allison Ball

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

First it was 400,000 unread emails and 120,000 people in need of unemployment checks, then it was chaos and preventable criminal acts in our juvenile justice detention centers, and now Andy's sending checks to people who weren't even close to the disaster zone in Western Kentucky.

– Ryan Quarles

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ronald Reagan really used it exclusively to describe the welfare queen that had numerous names, Social Security numbers, different husbands, different welfare checks, reporters all over the country ran out searching for this welfare queen, and really couldn’t find her.

– Gwen Moore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Second Amendment is becoming a suicide pact, i have no ideological opposition with someone reasonably and responsibly owning firearms and getting background checks and being trained and making sure they’re locked so their kid doesn’t accidentally shoot themselves or a loved one.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s important to remember that in his statement to police said he got a checkbook, used only two checks and threw the rest of the checkbook in a manhole, i don’t believe that, I believe he defrauded other companies and other people.

– Bruno Simões

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Adding offensive firepower and improving our power play were priorities this offseason, and Max certainly checks those boxes.

– Don Waddell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democrats pushed for an assault weapons ban, I said no. They tried to get a new three-week mandatory waiting period for all gun purchases, I said no. Universal background checks, magazine bans, licensing requirements, the list goes on and on and on. And I said no, no, 1,000 times no, so, you might ask,' What is on the table ?' More mental health resources, more support for John Cornyn schools, and making sure that violent criminals and the mentally ill can not buy a firearm.

– John Cornyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Democrats pushed for an assault weapons ban, I said no, they tried to get a new three-week mandatory waiting period for all gun purchases, I said no. Universal background checks, magazine bans, licensing requirements, the list goes on and on and on. And I said no, no, 1,000 times no.

– John Cornyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can not simply remove major wheat production, major food oil production, major fertilizer production, major oil production, major natural gas production, major production of [ semiconductor ] chips used in automobiles and think you're not going to get inflation, when it gets presented in the American news, you get this idea that if our stimulus checks had been lower, and if our wages had gone lower, that we wouldn't have this inflation. Nobody in the world accepts that as the viewpoint.

– Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we can't ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21; strengthen background checks; enact safe storage and red flag laws; repeal the immunity, that protect gun manufacturers from liability; address the mental health crisis, deepening the trauma of gun violence.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In a less broken society, we would be able to require background checks every single time someone wants to buy a gun, and we would ban assault rifles outright, but if even one life is saved or one attempted mass shooting is prevented because of these regulations, we believe that it is worth fighting for.

– David Hogg

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need background checks, we need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them.

– Matthew McConaughey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We're not going to put a piece of legislation on the table that will ban assault weapons or pass comprehensive background checks, right now, people in this country want us to make progress, they just don't want the status quo to continue for another 30 years.

– Chris Murphy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction toward trying to prevent the kind of tragedy we saw this week in Uvalde — in my beloved, weeping TEXAS, i'm Larry Gatlin, but the 2nd Amendment should not apply to everyone. It's that simple.

– Larry Gatlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're listening to the NRA, they're listening to the people who write them checks, who keep them in power because that's the way politics work. That's the idea we settle on, that's what we tell ourselves, but it doesn't have to be that way. Not for this.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was also struck by how she swiftly dismantled conspiracy theories put forward in bad faith.They’ve been debunked by numerous fact checks, experts, and the record itself.

– Chris Meagher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The amount is increasing every day, we literally receive checks in the mailbox and even cash. People are sending cash from all over the states.

– Anna Afanasieva

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was wondering if you’d like to swap checks.

– Susie Maxwell Berning

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know that sexual violence is so rarely reported and we know that convictions are so incredibly rare even when it is reported, you're going to be missing a lot of really dangerous people through using criminal records and background checks as a proxy for safety. It can create this false sense of safety when it shouldn't be there.

– Nicole Bedera

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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