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book_worm

(15,951 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 03:09 PM Mar 2016

HRC vows to take on the gun lobby if she is elected

MILWAUKEE (Wisconsin Radio Network) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she’ll take on the gun lobby if elected. She took part in a “Community Forum on Gun Violence Prevention” at Milwaukee’s Tabernacle Baptist Church

“There are a lot of powerful lobbies, don’t get me wrong. Wall Street, drugs, big oil. There’s lots of powerful lobbies. Nothing is more powerful than the gun lobby,” Clinton said.

Clinton pledged to push for tougher background checks on prospective gun purchasers, and decried the lack of liability enjoyed by manufacturers and retailers. “Gun makers and sellers are immune from liability because of a law I voted against, President Obama voted against when he was in the Senate, (and) my opponnant voted for.”

Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore says there were 125 gun homicides in the city of Milwaukee last year. “The most victims: African American. Sixty-one percent of those killed were under the age of 30, and last year 9 people under the age of 18 died from this gun violence.”

http://wsau.com/news/articles/2016/mar/29/clinton-campaigns-against-gun-violence-in-milwaukee/

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HRC vows to take on the gun lobby if she is elected (Original Post) book_worm Mar 2016 OP
This takes guts. I greatly admire her for this. nt SunSeeker Mar 2016 #1
Good for her! Every Dem needs to take on the gun lobby. LonePirate Mar 2016 #2
What's Hillary got two more of than all the other candidates? rock Mar 2016 #3
This really takes courage and conviction. Thank you, Hillary, for going where no man has gone before lunamagica Mar 2016 #4
She should take on the tough issues SharonClark Mar 2016 #5

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
4. This really takes courage and conviction. Thank you, Hillary, for going where no man has gone before
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 04:26 PM
Mar 2016

at least, no man currently running for POTUS.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
5. She should take on the tough issues
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 07:13 PM
Mar 2016

The gun-nuts hate her anyway. If she never uttered a word about gun safety they'd still scream that she's wants to take their guns away.

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