Posted on 04/11/2016 1:36:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday issued a call to action on guns while hammering primary rival Bernie Sanders for opposing liability for gun manufacturers.
“We cannot go on like this,” she said during a forum on gun violence in Port Washington, N.Y. "If anything else was killing 33,000 people a year, we would be mobilized.
“I have spent too many hours listening to and meeting with families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. Let’s figure out what we’re going to do to save lives.”
Clinton said the gun lobby wields the most influence of any special interest group.
“What stands in the way is the most powerful lobby in Washington,” she said.
“If you take them all — Wall Street, the drug industry, the fossil fuel industry — none is bigger or more intimidating. What they are afraid of is that there answers we can implement.”
Clinton criticized Sanders for supporting legislation that shields gun manufacturers from liability for shootings.
“We also have to reverse the gift that was given to the gun lobby with the passage of a law that grants special immunity from the general responsibilities of showing reasonable care in making and selling products,” she said.
“This is the rule for every other business that makes every other thing and sells it in our country,” Clinton added. "It is a rule that is rooted in centuries of legal history and cases.
“You do have a duty to the general public not to be reckless, not to be irresponsible. There can be constitutionally permissible restraints [on guns].”
Clinton has repeatedly hit Sanders’s position on guns, seizing on one of the few areas where her record is firmly to his left.
She ripped Sanders’s past opposition to gun maker liability as “unimaginable” last week, citing a 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Sanders argued on April 4 that victims of gun violence should not be capable of suing manufacturers when criminals abuse their weapons.
How about liability for politicians for passing harmful legislation?
Hired Guns to Protect EX-Presidents has to END!!
That’s a classic!
Immunity for traitorous people who compromise national security and get ambassadors murdered must end!
So if I choke on a pretzel and dies because I didn’t chew it properly, should the pretzel maker be charged with my death???
“What stands in the way is the most powerful lobby in Washington,” she said.
THE PEOPLE????
I think automobiles kill more than guns. Of course, there is a human driver in the automobile (I know that is changing) but those guns, oh wait.
She’s absolutely right! We cannot go on like this with our enemies poised to again take over the reins of government from our current enemies!
If this doesn’t stop at the polls this year, we’re doomed. We’re doomed if the damned Republicrats shove a Kasich down our throats!
100,000 Deaths Per Year In The U.S. Caused By (properly prescribed) Prescription Drugs
33,000? What the hell is she talking about? She is including justifiable and accidents as well, I assume. Would we be mobilized if cars were killing 33,000 people per year? Banning them, maybe? How about ladders, stairs and swimming pools?
You don't say, Hillary.
There were 29,989 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2014 in which 32,675 deaths occurred. This resulted in 10.2 deaths per 100,000 people and 1.08 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. The fatality rate per 100,000 people ranged from 3.5 in the District of Columbia to 25.7 in Wyoming. The death rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled ranged from 0.57 in Massachusetts to 1.65 in South Carolina.
Federal Highway Administration. 2015. Highway statistics, 2014. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation.
(Source: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/state-by-state-overview)
So Hillary is in favor of suing GM and Jack Daniels for drunk drivers?
What a fricken idiot this woman is.
And car makers should be liable for their users actions?
Pencil makers for misspellings and poor punctuation?
Welding equipment makers for making metal hot?
Paper manufacturers for paper cuts?
For 2013:
Unintentional fall deaths
Number of deaths: 30,208
Deaths per 100,000 population: 9.6
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
Number of deaths: 33,804
Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.7
Unintentional poisoning deaths
Number of deaths: 38,851
Deaths per 100,000 population: 12.3
I have no idea what the numbers for “intentional” falls or poisonings are.
While Hillary wants to ban guns, I read that Bernie wants to ban gravity to stop all fall deaths. Or at least require mandatory helmet use when not sleeping or sitting on the coach watching TV.
(Don’t anybody mention the risk of falling out of bed.)
And corrupt.
MortalityAll homicides
Number of deaths: 16,121
Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.1Firearm homicides
Number of deaths: 11,208
Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.5
Hillary lies again! So shocking.
I personally believe 2017 and 2018 will separate the men from the boys and by 2019 we know what we are made of.
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