Clinton touts her experience with guns

CNN ^ | April 12, 2008 | Peter Hamby

[rosenfan]

VALPARAISO, Indiana (CNN) — Hillary Clinton appealed to Second Amendment supporters on Saturday by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers.

“I disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about trade and immigration simply out of frustration,” she began, referring to the Obama comments on small-town Americans that set off a political tumult on Friday.

She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

[Redcloak]

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

Of course, the only problem with her story is that her lips were moving as she told it.

[G Larry]

Another invented memory I’d guess.

I’ll bet you could hand her any firearm with an empty chamber and she’d be unable to get a round off.

[kittymyrib]

LOL...next week she’ll be telling us that she returned sniper fire in Bosnia. The woman and her skunk of a HINO have no shame.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Nah, this experience served her well when Vince foster needed plugging and Ron Brown’s skull needed ventilation.

[Manly Warrior]

Would love to ask her opinion about the use of (firearms) force by citizens to insure that government is kept in check and if not successful, to insure that any yoke of oppression is thrown off, just as the funders did in circa 1774....

Ya think she would agree?

God Bless
MOLON LABE

[Cicero]

It’s a good thing she had that gun training when she was under fire in Bosnia. When she was a little girl her father used to fire his pistol between her feet and make her do a little dance.

[jimfree]

Yes, she’s a duck hunter. And once in the 90s she had to respond to sniper fire.

[G Larry]

Duck hunting?!
Ha!

Just like Bill, somebody else bags ‘em and he comes out into the clearing carrying them, as though he shot them.

[Sacajaweau]

Dead men tell no tales...Ya know...

If she goes back far enough in her history...we'll never be able to check the story. Someone needs to find out when Grandpa died.

Little girl implies 7, maybe 8 years old....and I don't know any grandfather who would let a kid handle a gun at that age...She wasn't exactly living in the west.

Need a little family search here.

[jimfree]

You beat me by one response Cicero. Well-done!

[wagglebee]

Clinton touts her experience with guns

Vince Foster?

[G Larry]

“I’ll bet you could hand her any firearm with an empty chamber and she’d be unable to get a round off.”

Well.....on second thought.....there was that Vince fellow....

[swmobuffalo]

“Little girl implies 7, maybe 8 years old....and I don’t know any grandfather who would let a kid handle a gun at that age”

that would be news to any number of grandpas around here.

[gunservative]

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot..."

This explains Vince Foster...

[oldenuff2no]

More crap out of the mouth of the beast. She just does not get it. Most people just don't believe her stories anymore. I’ve always thought she was a professional liar like her hubby Bill. Now it's pretty clear for the whole world to see.

[ThreePuttinDude]

You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola

Oh Oh, her father took her out behind the cottage?
What did they do behind the cottage....Hmmmm Oprah might
say there could be some repressed emotions going on her...LOL

[P8riot]

My 6 yr old is a great shot for his age. He started learning shortly after turning 5

[nicola_tesla]

Mine learned with an air rifle at age 9 - so not so unusual. However, since her lips were moving as she told the story there’s an even chance she “misremembers” something.

[billhilly]

Thousands of hours in woods, marshes, lakes and streams, not to mention oceans and seas of the earth have taught me not to be impressed with plinking behind cottages.

[lowbridge]

Clinton said she has hunted ducks.

Duck, duck, duck....GOOSE!

[RepublitarianRoger2]

It is really important for each of you [kids] to make sure you stay away from guns. If you have guns in your home, tell your parents to keep them away from you and your friends and your little brothers and sisters.

We have to do everything possible to keep guns out of the hands of children, and we need to stand firm on behalf of the sensible gun control legislation that passed the Senate and then was watered down in the House.

— Hillary Clinton, July 1999

[firebrand]

Hillary has finally learned the rule followed by all criminals: If there’s no one around to disprove you, you can claim anything you want.

[Hot Tabasco]

my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl,”

LIAR!

[skinkinthegrass]

Nah, this experience served her well when Vince foster needed plugging and Ron Brown’s skull needed ventilation....

I'm sure, Jimmah "Malai$e" CarTURD and Al "Buddi$t Monk$" Gore, should be in "the sights/cross-hairs" of the Little Rock Mafia, by now....or soon will be.

[E. Cartman]

Hillary Clinton appealed to Second Amendment supporters on Saturday by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers.

While I'm skeptical about her experience with guns, she's got a lot with lamps, chairs and ashtrays. Just ask Bill.

[Riverman94610]

Maybe that experience with guns is what made her try to join the Marine Corps!
Will this compulsive liar ever stop these fabrications?

[TommyDale]

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

The only thing Hillary has ever shot was B.S.

[night reader]

I’ll bet you could hand her any firearm with an empty chamber and she’d be unable to get a round off.

Ever hear of Arkancide?

[ALPAPilot]

Maybe she should quote John F'n Kerry:

"Can I get me a huntin' license here."

[Lou L]

Hillary has finally learned the rule followed by all criminals: If there’s no one around to disprove you, you can claim anything you want.

What amazes me is that she's supposedly "lived" in so many places when she was younger. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arkansas, New York...not to say it isn't possible, but it just strikes me funny. Her track record suggests much of it had to be embellished.

[infantrywhooah]

Another Lie du Jour.

This pathetic woman has done more than Forrest Gump.

[yldstrk]

Vince Foster

[kempo]

How come we have never heard this story before? Could it be she has never been behind in a race before and she didn’t need the “redneck” vote. Naw!

[YHAOS]

"Will this compulsive liar ever stop these fabrications?"

No

[ExSoldier]

I'm sorry but ... That DAWG just won't hunt ... In so many more ways than one!

[TNCMAXQ]

Isn’t this going to hurt her a lot with the left wing, gun hating crowd? Sarah Brady and her ilk must be furious. Though they know she probably doesn’t really mean it.

[Recon Dad]

Isn’t this going to hurt her a lot with the left wing, gun hating crowd? Sarah Brady and her ilk must be furious. Though they know she probably doesn’t really mean it.

She’s convinced me, I believe her. /s

[Bullfrogg]

Maybe she could teach Dick Cheney
a thing or two about duck hunting!

[dayglored]

Interesting quote from Hillary:

"It is really important for each of you [kids] to make sure you stay away from guns. If you have guns in your home, tell your parents to keep them away from you and your friends and your little brothers and sisters.

"We have to do everything possible to keep guns out of the hands of children,..."

My own preference is the NRA's Eddie Eagle training for kids. My daughter learned well from that. She's now 14, and quite the marksman.

As to that other crap, about gun control legislation, the less said the better...

[GulfWar1Vet]

[KarinG1]

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

Any time Hillary Clinton says, "You know," what I know is that she is about to lie. That is apparently how she defines "You know." It would be difficult to prove she's lying in this case and I have already determined that she can easily beat my voice stress analyzer, but it is common knowledge that she is a gun-grabber. It's in the record. Her NRA rating is as bad as Obama's.

[Dumpster Baby]

Yes, she’s a duck hunter. And once in the 90s she had to respond to sniper fire.

"Dadgum, I'm a-hankerin' to go a-shootin' fer some food..."

[headstamp 2]

“You know, (insert lie here).”

[wastedyears]

[VR-21]

"Will this compulsive liar ever stop these fabrications?"

It really does seem to get sicker by the day doesn't it.

[Pistolshot]

[R_Kangel]

"After the gun made a loud bangy type sound, it made a big hole in the puppy I was shooting at! I knew right then that this was too much power for the little people to have."

Hillary Clinton...1968

[cquiggy]

Rewind to yesterday when she called for a spending package which would add 100,000 new police officers. And stated that she would push hard for a renewed assault weapons ban.