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Hillary Clinton Says Opponents Of Gun Control Laws ‘Terrorize’ Americans
Time ^ | June 17, 2014 | Zeke J. Miller

Posted on 06/17/2014 6:19:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Possible 2016 candidate wades into politically charged issue.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lashed out at opponents of gun control regulations Tuesday, saying they hold a viewpoint that “terrorizes” the majority of Americans.

“We cannot let a minority of people, and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people, hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people,” Clinton said during a live CNN town hall. The comments were Clinton’s deepest foray into an exceedingly controversial political subject since leaving the State Department last year.

“I was disappointed that the Congress did not pass universal background checks after the horrors of the shootings at Sandy Hook,” she said in response to a question from a school teacher in the audience. “I don’t think any parent, or any person should have to fear about their child going to school or going to college because someone for whatever reason, psychological, emotional, political, ideological, whatever, could possibly enter that school property with an automatic weapon and murder innocent children, students, teachers.”

“I will speak out [on this subject] no matter what role I find myself in,” Clinton pledged, referring to her consideration of a presidential bid in 2016.

The outspoken position on gun control legislation is a clear appeal to the overwhelming majority of Americans who support expanding background check requirements before gun purchases, but it’s sure to inflame gun rights activists and the National Rifle Association, which blocked legislation in the Senate last year. It could also backfire by alienating moderate gun owners.

Responding to Sunday’s apprehension of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, allegedly a “key figure” in the 2012 attacks on an American consulate in Benghazi, Clinton said she hoped questioning would reveal more about what happened on the ground on the night of the attack....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016; banglist; clinton; guncontrol; guns; hillary; politics; secondamendment
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To: TurboZamboni

If the GOP was into cutting a uterus in half, I would be against them as well.


81 posted on 06/18/2014 8:51:00 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“I don’t think any parent, or any person should have to fear about their child going to school or going to college because someone for whatever reason, psychological, emotional, political, ideological, whatever, could possibly enter that school property with an automatic weapon and murder innocent children, students, teachers.”

It was illegal for the perp to take a gun on school property and it was illegal to kill people. So the solution by the great Hillary is to make another law? Why? So the perp could be charge with breaking more laws? Background checks would not have prevented the Sandy Hook tragedy. Hillary proves once again she is ill-equipped to be President (and that she is a mental midget moron)

82 posted on 06/18/2014 11:05:08 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Opponents Of Gun Control Laws ‘Terrorize’ Americans totalitarian communist fascists.

There, fixed it.

83 posted on 06/18/2014 12:10:09 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Biggirl

French Revolution 2.0


84 posted on 06/18/2014 3:23:22 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is now the CPUSA)
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