[Bloggers note: Here comes the big gun grab! Time to kick
this worn out, criminal bitch to the curb!]
The Guardian
November 4, 2015
Hillary Clinton is attempting to make gun control and
reducing gun violence a key part of her presidential campaign, as a once politically
sensitive campaign issue moves front and center in the wake of the Charleston
church massacre in June.
“Thirty-three thousand people a year die from something,”
the Democratic frontrunner said at a campaign event at Grinnell College in Iowa
on Tuesday night. “Shame on us if we don’t respond.”
The frequency and force with which she and the other
Democratic presidential candidates discuss gun control marks an evolution on an
issue that was once a near-taboo for Democrats on the campaign trail. Since a
21-year-old white supremacist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston,
South Carolina, in June, Clinton has wrapped toughening the nation’s gun laws
into her standard stump speech.
It also marks a rare policy on which Clinton is to the left
of Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who is closely chasing the frontrunner in
Iowa and New Hampshire.
During an earlier campaign event in Coralville, Iowa, Clinton
vowed to challenge the powerful US gun lobby, the National Rifle Association (NRA),
and pledged to make gun control a “voting issue” that motivates Democrats in
the same way gun rights motivates Republicans to vote.
“We’re going to make this a voting issue – just like the
other side does,” Clinton said on Tuesday afternoon.
Read more at: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/04/hillary-clinton-gun-control-forefront-campaign
Hillary Clinton - AP Photo John Locher 11/2015
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