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Hillary Clinton: Gun culture ‘way out of balance’
Associated Press ^ | May 6, 2014 1:45 PM EDT | Ken Thomas

Posted on 05/06/2014 11:08:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the nation’s gun culture has gotten “way out of balance” and the U.S. needs to rein in the notion that “anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime.”

The former Secretary of State and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said the idea that anyone can have a gun is not in the “best interest of the vast majority of people.” But she said that approach does not conflict with the rights of people to own firearms. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gungrabbers; hillary
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To: Olog-hai
"the U.S. needs to rein in the notion that “anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime.”

I don't know of anybody who has that "notion." There are plenty of laws resticting who can "have a gun". Convicted felons, those convicted of domestic violence, drug addicts and those with serious mental defects are all prohibited from "having a gun."

21 posted on 05/06/2014 11:21:40 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: rktman
“Oh, I know. She’s lookin’ for some bloomie bucks.”

Methinks you are right on. And he'll be glad to oblige.

22 posted on 05/06/2014 11:21:51 AM PDT by Paulie (Buy local, bank local, exert your influence locally; the left will fold like a cheap suit.)
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To: Olog-hai

“That’s what happens in the countries I’ve visited where there is no rule of law and no self-control and that is something that we cannot just let go without paying attention,” she said.”

Countries, hell.....she is talking about her fricking family.

“The old woman lied and good men died.” You ask, “What does it matter, woman?”

A lot. It matters a lot.


23 posted on 05/06/2014 11:21:53 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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To: willywill

April 13, 2008

Obama: Shame on ‘Annie Oakley’

Obama, in Steelton

“She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her,” Obama said, and then expressed some amusement at Hillary’s emergence as a tribune of the Second Amendment:

“She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsman, how she values the second amendment. She’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley,” Obama said, invoking the famed female sharpshooter immortalized in the musical “Anne Get Your Gun.”

Obama continued, saying “Hillary Clinton is out there like she’s on the duck blind every Sunday. She’s packing a six-shooter. Come on, she knows better. That’s some politics being played by Hillary Clinton.”


24 posted on 05/06/2014 11:23:01 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Olog-hai

To be fair, the Leftists also think our “Free Speech Culture” and “Freedom of Religion” culture are way out of balance, with the individual still having way too much freedom.


25 posted on 05/06/2014 11:23:52 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Olog-hai

” But she said that approach does not conflict with the rights of people to own firearms.” …

Very similar to my approach on cankles


26 posted on 05/06/2014 11:26:23 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Olog-hai

April 14, 2008

“I’m sure that Sen. Clinton feels like she’s doing me a favor because she’s been deploying most of the arguments the Republican Party will be using against me in November and so it’s toughening me up. I’m getting run through the paces here,” Obama told The Associated Press’ annual meeting.

Clinton has been hitting Obama hard after he referred to some small-town Pennsylvanians as “bitter” people who “cling to guns and religion” at a fund-raiser last week.

On Sunday, Clinton called the comments “elitist, out of touch and frankly, patronizing,” and added, “You know, the Democratic Party, to be very blunt about it, has been viewed as a party that didn’t understand and respect the values and the way of life of so many of our fellow Americans.”

Clinton’s efforts over the weekend to appeal to Second Amendment supporters 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.

“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 me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

Asked Sunday when she last fired a gun or attended church services, Clinton said the query was “not a relevant question in this debate.”

With the national media present, Clinton drank a beer and chatted with voters. After ordering her beer, the bartender asked, “You want a shot with that Hillary?” After some deliberation, Clinton settled on a shot of Crown Royal, a Canadian whiskey.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/14/obama.clinton/


27 posted on 05/06/2014 11:27:01 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Olog-hai

Earth To Shrillary:This is OLD Ground!!Convicted Felons,etc. are PROHIBITED From Owning Firearms!!!Now,if we could ONLY get them to OBEY THE LAWS????????????????


28 posted on 05/06/2014 11:29:10 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Olog-hai

So will it be Hillary Clinton/Chris Christie in 2016?

29 posted on 05/06/2014 11:29:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Olog-hai

The left are incrementally teaching the sheeple that freedoms and liberties are threatening the flocks safety.


30 posted on 05/06/2014 11:30:58 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: Olog-hai

Odd, not a popular position to take as a candidate. perhaps she feels she needs to be far left to win the primary.


31 posted on 05/06/2014 11:32:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Olog-hai

I have a clarification question for Hillary...

Did you feel that way before or after Ms. Lewinski’s Boyfriend signed the AWB and at the same time also signed a waiver flooding the market with cheap Chinese made weapons?


32 posted on 05/06/2014 11:37:06 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: 1Old Pro

She’s running against Senators Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren and Bernie “Avowed Socialist” Sanders, not the GOP or Tea Party candidate. The Democrats, believe it or not, don’t feel that Hillary is satisfactorily leftist enough.


33 posted on 05/06/2014 11:38:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Olog-hai

Her and Bill have had hundreds killed, no not all by guns but dead is dead. I like the one were the fellow killed himself and the gun was in the other room.


34 posted on 05/06/2014 11:39:19 AM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!)
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To: Olog-hai

35 posted on 05/06/2014 11:39:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

If they really wanted to do it, that would be the route to take.


36 posted on 05/06/2014 11:39:31 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Agreed. Not enough ammo available. No "balance" there. Old Cankles is half-right. As usual, which means she's about half-wrong typically, when not more fully stepping waddling out on some 'liberal agenda' crusade or another...

They could put the older military stuff on the civilian market, like they used to. That might free up some brass enough to help the price come down for government ammo purchases too.

Or -- they (the federal government) could just keep the ammo they have now, and instead of buying billions of rounds, delegate those millions of rounds that are slated for destruction to be used for training purposes. That could save money that could be better spent elsewhere -- like on wounded veterans.

Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/04/pentagon-destroy-1-billion-worth-ammo-makes-sense/#Avkey8grTg5JaJDT.99

37 posted on 05/06/2014 11:40:11 AM PDT by BlueDragon (The Democrats think they are deck officers and our betters, but they cannae tie a bowline)
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To: All

Good, I’m glad somebody is trying to clean up the mess in Chicago.


38 posted on 05/06/2014 11:40:23 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (An account created by Vladimir Putin)
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To: Peter ODonnell

And speaking of “out of balance” how about security in Benghazi?


39 posted on 05/06/2014 11:44:01 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: Olog-hai

More people have been killed in Fort Marcy Park than by any of my guns.


40 posted on 05/06/2014 11:44:23 AM PDT by red-dawg (<<< click for info on my book.)
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