Clinton: 'Nothing is more powerful than the gun lobby’

[lostinblue 1,989]

Clinton: 'Nothing is more powerful than the gun lobby’

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonKarl Rove fears slump in general election turnout with Trump as nomineeRyan shoots down suggestions he run if party convention brokeredWhy Obama picked Merrick Garland MORE on Monday said enacting tighter firearms regulations requires overwhelming voter support, given the strength of gun lobbyists

“Nothing is more powerful than the gun lobby,” she told host Chris Matthews during an MSNBC town hall in Springfield, Ill. "This is an issue I am so profoundly disturbed about. We have to take on the gun lobby. The gun lobby really intimidates elected officials. We have got to make this a voting issue.”

Clinton was addressing a questioner who wondered how she would prevent mass shootings like the one that killed 20 children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., four years ago.

She said on Monday evening that witnessing evidence of Chicago’s gun violence epidemic firsthand earlier that day had strengthened her resolve on the issue.

“Today in Chicago I visited a wall with bricks with the names of young people who have been murdered in the last seven years,” she said, citing the city’s gun deaths. "We need comprehensive background checks. We need to end the immunity from liability [for gun manufacturers].”

Clinton’s remarks come the day before Illinois’s Democratic presidential primary and four other voting contests nationwide.

Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersBachmann: Trump gets nomination if he’s ‘within striking distance’The Trail 2016: Battle of the UnifiersMissouri GOP releases tentative delegate allocationMORE (I-Vt.), Clinton’s sole remaining rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is leading in Missouri and is within range of Clinton's leads in Illinois and Ohio.

Clinton has frequently portrayed the Vermont lawmaker as soft on gun control during their struggle for the Democratic presidential mantle.

She has won 14 voting contests before Tuesday’s events, contrasted with Sanders’s nine, and she also leads the self-described democratic socialist in delegates claimed.

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Killary wants to make this an election issue . Bring it on...Her hatred for . gun ownership in the United States ...

[Jacque67 7,328]

She should qualify her statement -in the US maybe...what about the pharmaceutical companies though?

[lostinblue 1,989]

[ExPatty 503]

The gun lobby needs to be more powerful, because already the second has eroded away from its original intent. If a majority of the country doesn't support the second, there is already a mechanism by which to amend the constitution. If a sufficient percentage of congress votes to abolish the second, it can be abolished. In the meantime, this "You can have your second, but not really." is exactly why the gun lobby has so much money behind it. People like Hillary are dishonest about it. If she was honest she would say I don't support the second amendment. Come out with it, stop hiding.

I suppose in the second part of this speech she rallied against the drug industry? Prescription drugs cause tons upon tons of deaths/year, and when I turn on the news in the morning fully 50% of commercials are about medications. When will the over prescription of drugs be stopped? When will people suffering from a broken leg stop turning into drug addicts because they got too much pain med?

15X more people die each year from heart disease than guns. What does Hillary plan on doing about that?

[TBoneTX 47,744]

Have her Federal regulatory agencies dictate what we can and cannot eat.

[Dashinka 26,057]

Have her Federal regulatory agencies dictate what we can and cannot eat.

Socialism!