Hillary Clinton Really Is Coming For Your Guns

[DonViejo]

Jackie Kucinich

Some politicians talk about gun control once in a while. Clinton has been pushing to curb firearms for decades. No wonder the NRA has vowed to bring her down.

“Something is deeply wrong,” Hillary Clinton told the audience at the Democratic National Committee on Friday. Earlier in the week, a gunman killed two journalists in Roanoke, Virginia, on live television, just days before an unstable person with a gun murdered a highway state trooper in Louisiana. It all points to a national sickness, an impotence when it comes to curbing the spread of firearms to dangerous individuals, Clinton said. “I believe we can have common sense gun reform that keeps weapons out of the hands that should not have them—domestic abusers, the violently unstable—while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners.”

Hillary Clinton has long pushed to regulate access to guns. In her Friday speech, she pledged her presidency would be no different. “Now I know the politics are hard. I know that some would rather throw up their hands and give up the fight, but not me. I’m not going to sit by while more good people die across America,” she said.

Of course, it’s easy for candidates for president—especially Democratic candidates for president—to say they’re going to do something on guns. Actually accomplishing anything is much harder—like Labor-of-Hercules difficult. After the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting that killed 20 elementary school students and six of their teachers, President Obama made a massive push for relatively modest gun regulation. He got nothing.

But for Clinton, gun control has been a significant part of her political identity. She’s been working to regulate the firearms industry for decades, and had a front row seat the last time a president actually managed to pass any gun-control measure.

In other words: other candidates may say they’re coming for unregulated guns. Clinton really is.

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[Sancho]

1. Good, it's about time for someone to get serious about all those guns...

If Hillary is going that way, I'm even more on her side!!

[Hoyt]

2. Maybe she can move Sanders to the left. If anyone can do something, she can.

[seabeyond]

3. no she isnt. the laws she is suggesting is not taking away peoples guns. even my gun toting husband

agrees with some regulations.

[MineralMan]

4. It's one of her strongest positions, for sure.

I think she can move things in the correct direction, too, if she gets a decent Congress and can appoint a couple of SCOTUS justices. It's just one more reason we should stop trashing her over every little thing we can find and get ready to help her get elected.

Gun Control? Sure. Yes, please. I'll have a double helping of that, if you don't mind.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. No, Obama will...

really- he is going to do it any day now