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Hillary Clinton Won’t Say if Right to Bear Arms Is Constitutional Right
Washington Free Beacon ^ | June 5, 2016 | David Rutz

Posted on 06/05/2016 7:31:33 AM PDT by maggief

Hillary Clinton couldn’t definitively say Sunday that the Second Amendment of the Constitution guaranteed the right to bear arms during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

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“Do you believe that an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right, that it’s not linked to service in a militia?” he asked.

“I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice Scalia, and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulations,” she said. “So I believe we can have common-sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment.”

Clinton then went into her gun control platform, but Stephanopoulos hit her for dodging his question, noting the D.C. vs. Heller decision that protected an individual’s right to have a firearm for lawful purposes.

“And the Heller decision also does say there can be some restrictions, but that’s not what I asked,” he said. “I said, do you believe that their conclusion that an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right?”

“If it is a constitutional right, then it, like every other constitutional right, is subject to reasonable regulations, and what people have done with that decision is to take it as far as they possibly can and reject what has been our history from the very beginning of the republic, where some of the earliest laws that were passed were about firearms,” Clinton said.

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To: maggief

This criminal hag is interviewed by a former employee who donated $$$$ to her criminal “foundation” and is/was on the board of directors of that criminal “foundation”. What a pathetic joke by these subhuman LIBs.


21 posted on 06/05/2016 7:48:42 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: dennisw
Minor editing on a very important reality of Clintoon!

This heinous b%*@^ knows cares as much about The Second Amendment as she does cared about Benghazi and the illegal immigration nightmare she created in Libya by overthrowing Mummar Qaddafi.

22 posted on 06/05/2016 7:50:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Bill Kristallnacht wants to burn down the conservative movement & elect crooked/lying Clinton!)
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To: maggief

What she said....I’m gonna regulate the crap out of that amendment...and on a Federal level. You will obey!!


23 posted on 06/05/2016 7:52:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: maggief

Is there even one constitutionally - recognized individual liberty that Obama Hillary Kerry etc would uphold and defend for us? (And I don’t mean abortion on demand or dirty old men in the little girls’ room...). And would they ever do a single thing to strengthen USA and our real allies, instead of undermining and weakening us? ( rhetorical questions, obviously). These people are consistently our outright enemies - on every single fundamental aspect of our lives - they are very very dangerous — it’s no wonder they routinely serve the interests of our deadly Islamic enemies as well as every other anti- American dictatorship on earth.


24 posted on 06/05/2016 7:53:04 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: maggief

I’ve always scratched my head at that question\assertion.
It begs to ask the question:
so, all of the Bill of Rights(a response to calls for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties,) are individual rights except the 2nd amendment ?


25 posted on 06/05/2016 7:54:22 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Travis McGee

Where do I get one of those lapel camera pins all the Hillary security detail gets to wear?


26 posted on 06/05/2016 7:55:22 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: maggief

The day they nullify the 2nd Amendment, is the day I go hunting.


27 posted on 06/05/2016 7:58:47 AM PDT by heights
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To: Snickering Hound

BOOM!


28 posted on 06/05/2016 7:59:51 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: dennisw

Have you considered submitting “Heinous Hillary” to Trump as a nickname for the &itch?


29 posted on 06/05/2016 8:11:18 AM PDT by monocle (agents)
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To: maggief
"...and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulations,” What's this "we" business? You (HRC) are not part of the federal government, and you will not regulate me, you whore of Babylon.
30 posted on 06/05/2016 8:15:36 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: maggief

I would like to ask her if she thought she had a right to vote or run for President.


31 posted on 06/05/2016 8:17:44 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Travis McGee
"We have got to help our young people understand, guns are never an answer."

She certainly helped the Benghazi Annex staffers understand it.

32 posted on 06/05/2016 8:21:14 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: maggief
Steffy: "meow"

HRC: "nice kitty"

33 posted on 06/05/2016 8:21:39 AM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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To: maggief

34 posted on 06/05/2016 8:32:02 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: BiggerTigger

Well, gorilla harambe no longer occupies his cage. Put Hillary in there and I don’t think the public would notice the difference.


35 posted on 06/05/2016 8:38:27 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: maggief
Of course. As she explains in her upcoming book, if WE had weapons, we might harm some of the new "guests" she'd be inviting in by the millions to insure a steady supply of Democrat welfare voters!
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36 posted on 06/05/2016 8:41:10 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: maggief

It wont be when she’s done appointing Supreme Court justices.


37 posted on 06/05/2016 8:41:23 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Snickering Hound

Outstanding response by Miranda@moonraker33.


38 posted on 06/05/2016 8:43:21 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Especially when she’s restricted access to razors and her electrolysist is indicted ;)

“What IS it, Mommy?”

“I don’t know, baby...Don’t look.”


39 posted on 06/05/2016 8:43:36 AM PDT by BiggerTigger
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To: BiggerTigger

This just in: Bill Clinton states he has a Constitutional right to bare butts!


40 posted on 06/05/2016 8:45:26 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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