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Hillary Clinton: U.S. needs to 'rein in' proliferation of guns
Political Ticker ^ | 5/6/2014 | Dan Merica

Posted on 05/07/2014 8:54:37 AM PDT by xzins

Hillary Clinton told an audience of mental health professionals on Tuesday that the United States needs to rein in its gun culture or risk a world where insignificant disagreements could lead to shootings.

Asked about the mental health aspects of guns, Clinton said "I think we've got to rein in what has become a almost article faith that anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime. I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people."

"We really have got to get our arms around it because at the rate we are going, we are going to have so many people with guns everywhere fully licensed, fully validated," Clinton said, painting a picture of a country where small annoyances could lead to shootings.

Clinton, whose comments came during the question and answer portion at the end of her appearance, said because "we are living at a time when there is so much external stimulation and some much internal confusion in certain people," it would be a bad idea to let people "go to bars with guns, let them go to schools with guns, let them go to church with guns."

Referencing a shooting earlier this year where a 71-year old retired police officer shot a 43-year old man texting in a movie theater, Clinton said people thinking they "have the right to defend themselves against the gum chewer and the cell phone user by shooting the person" is reminiscent of countries she visited "with no rule of law and self control."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; guns; hillaryclinton; violence
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To: Westbrook

Hitler said it best, in order to control the people, one must disarm them


61 posted on 05/07/2014 10:48:26 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DeakonSmith

Nah, she’s far to wiley for that. She’ll telegraph to her loyal clients, but she’ll dodge any commitments.

Truth be told, she doesn’t have to say anything to get elected. All she has to do is show up.


62 posted on 05/07/2014 10:57:50 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: xzins

She’s afraid y’all gonna go shoot her.


63 posted on 05/07/2014 10:57:52 AM PDT by mom.mom
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To: Westbrook

What amazes is how dumb she thinks everyone is...

1. I agree that she is behind the Monica Lewinsky marketing that will pose her more the victim, and get it out of the news.
2. She is appealing to the whacky left big time with her pro gun control.
3. Look for her to come out really bigtime for the climate change and against Keystone Pipeline etc.
4. Look for her to weigh in strongly for abortion.
5. Look for her to weigh in strongly for some tweeeking of Obamacare.
6. And when she is in the hot pursuit of the nomination look for her to declare that she’s gay.

The objective is to get the nomination, then she posts to the right.


64 posted on 05/07/2014 11:02:00 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: xzins

I would much prefer to ‘rein in’ Democrats.


65 posted on 05/07/2014 11:10:28 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: xzins

Hillary is talking about ‘no self-control’????

What a joke.

There isn’t a Democrat with ANY power in the USA that has ‘self-control’.


66 posted on 05/07/2014 11:11:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: xzins; sickoflibs; NFHale
this b!tch has balls...

benghazi has its fingerprints all over it, as well as fast & furious, and it'll lecture someone about gun control ???

it needs a long prison sentence, or more...

67 posted on 05/07/2014 11:13:11 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Gilbo_3; xzins; sickoflibs

Here’s the sorry thing about it...

If it were a Repub in her position re Benghazi, and she was holding the LEO reins, she wouldn’t HESITATE to ‘clap ‘im in irons”.

No one on “our” side seems to have the stones to do the same - to ANYONE with a “D” after their name.

It’s pathetic and cowardly.


68 posted on 05/07/2014 11:19:00 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: redgolum

They will try and screw with the constitution. That is one way. Not sure they need it. There is already precedence for gun regulation in this country. They can regulate it to death, tax it and find backdoor ways to get much of what they want

I fully expect Hillary to push for Australia style “turn in your guns” campaign - with or without a change in the Constitution. If they can force you to buy insurance they can find back-door ways to incent many to turn in their guns. Not us obviously but many in the middle. Once they have a decisive majority of people conditioned to hate guns then they can go further. Commies are patient.


69 posted on 05/07/2014 11:21:08 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: xzins

What the heck does this bich know amount firearms.


70 posted on 05/07/2014 11:29:57 AM PDT by Pit1 (Obama is the big pile in the road.)
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To: xzins

Probably on any given Sunday a dozen or more are armed in my church.


71 posted on 05/07/2014 11:45:13 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: tbird-james

Oh yeah, she’s a regular Ma Barker - and she looks like her, too. Sloppy broad.


72 posted on 05/07/2014 12:16:38 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: xzins
All leftists hate guns for obvious reasons.

Leftists don't hate guns any more than they hate wealth. They just want to make sure that they monopoly on both once they're in power. You don't see liberal anti-gun activists looking to disarm goon Federal Agents (or even their private security details) any time soon.

73 posted on 05/07/2014 12:34:57 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: xzins

I vote to let Bill and Hillary’s Secret Service details be re-assigned.


74 posted on 05/07/2014 12:41:38 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: xzins
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75 posted on 05/07/2014 12:45:35 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Rummyfan

To an aspiring tyrant, it is a bad thing. There’s nothing worse for them than the knowledge they might very well end up hanging by their cankles like Mussolini if they blow it and get exposed. She fears the right of the People to keep and bear arms precisely because she has bad intentions. She’s every bit the totalitarian 0bama is, and possibly worse. Her whole wretched existence has been nothing but a relentless, clawing grasp for power.


76 posted on 05/07/2014 4:14:03 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: xzins

Hillary, is there anything else in the Bill of Rights you would like to “rein in”?

Get bent you stupid Chicago witch.


77 posted on 05/07/2014 4:17:27 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: xzins
Hillary Clinton: U.S. needs to 'rein in' proliferation of guns

Well, every time Obama gets elected, 10 million more people buy one, so it would seem like the first step would be stop stealing elections and giving them to fascists.

78 posted on 05/07/2014 8:37:49 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: xzins
The woman who facilitated arms transfers to Zelaya supporters with Operation Castaway after he had been kicked out of the presidency of Honduras by the military who were in support of the Constitution of Honduras, who doubtless arranged for the transfer of NFA controlled arms (in the US) to Mexican drug lords, is now telling Americans we can't have more guns?

Not to mention whatever was going on in Benghazi--I hope Trey Gowdy hangs her high!

79 posted on 05/08/2014 4:19:13 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: redgolum

I fear you are right. People don’t know what they have done.


80 posted on 05/08/2014 4:26:07 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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