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Hillary Clinton Picks a Doomed Fight With Americans Over Guns
Reason Magazine ^ | May 10, 2016 | J.D. Tuccille

Posted on 05/23/2016 8:57:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

"Yesterday, once again, this time horrifically on live television," says Hillary Clinton in a video on her presidential campaign website, "we saw the terrible consequences of gun violence." As it turns out, she's not talking about civilian deaths from drone strikes or bombing raids on hospitals by the U.S. government, but instead about a criminal shooting spree in the United States. Sure enough, the Washington Post pointed out last week that one of Clinton's signature issues heading into the general election is tightening restrictions on the ownership and use of guns by Americans.

That's a tall order in a country where gun ownership for recreational shooting and self-defense is wildly popular. Nobody knows for sure, but the best estimate is that there are north of 300 million firearms in private hands in this country. The ownership of those weapons is closely intermingled with the concept of personal liberty and resistance to abusive government in the minds of a great many Americans, as documented by scholars who both approve and disapprove of that association. Unsurprisingly, federal lawmakers from both major parties are hesitant to wade into the issue, either because they share the aversion to restrictive gun laws, or because they're leery of voters who do, and who are wont to collect scalps on election day. Just last November, analysts attributed aggressive advocacy of gun control as the key to Democratic losses in Virginia's legislative races.

But Hillary Clinton has a plan.....

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


TOPICS: New York; Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; clinton; election2016; elections; guncontrol; guns; gunvote; hillary; hillary2016; hillaryclinton; newyork; secondamendment; trump
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1 posted on 05/23/2016 8:57:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want her security to drop their weapons in compliance!!


2 posted on 05/23/2016 8:59:10 PM PDT by WENDLE (Why is the FBI dilly dallying? LET'S GO!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This issue is always a loser for the Demonrats. Bang that drum, Hillary! More more more!!


3 posted on 05/23/2016 9:01:29 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Her hubby picked a fight with gun owners in '94, precipitating the worst mid-term disaster for the Dems in decades.

Hillary's now doing the same before a GENERAL election. Her timing has always been impeccably lousy.

4 posted on 05/23/2016 9:04:01 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Keep on harping about how Americans aren't smart enough to use a gun properly. That might be true with Democraps but I bet the conservatives on this board have had firearms training many times over. I have; everything from revolvers to fully automated weapons.


5 posted on 05/23/2016 9:05:40 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"If Congress refuses to act, Hillary will take administrative action"

When did I miss the Constitutional Convention that authorized Obama and his would-be successors on the Left to rule as Caesars? Is our toothless Congress ever going to stand up to this usurpation of it's rights and the will of the Founders?
6 posted on 05/23/2016 9:07:01 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Is our toothless Congress ever going to stand up to this usurpation of it's rights and the will of the Founders?

No.

7 posted on 05/23/2016 9:12:30 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Socialists gotta disarm. It be how dey roll.


8 posted on 05/23/2016 9:14:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There has been an unprecedented guns sales explosion over the last several years and it wasn’t just republicans doing the buying.


9 posted on 05/23/2016 9:14:47 PM PDT by umgud
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“the Washington Post pointed out last week that one of Clinton’s signature issues heading into the general election is tightening restrictions on the ownership and use of guns by Americans. “

Trying to take away guns from law abiding citizens was not and still isn’t a winning election issue.


10 posted on 05/23/2016 9:15:43 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: jsanders2001

Liberals: being burdened with a baby is punishment.

Secret Service: being placed on Hilarity’s detail is punishment.

All those ss folks are being punished. Thats why you end up on her detail.


11 posted on 05/23/2016 9:17:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Democrats have to find a good euphemism for gun control.
12 posted on 05/23/2016 9:18:35 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just parroting another idiot:


13 posted on 05/23/2016 9:19:09 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Eventually we will have to do the job. They have abdicated/forfeited and we will take the power back and do the job.

And we wont give that particular power back to them the next time.


14 posted on 05/23/2016 9:19:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sales booster for gun/ammo stores and shows. Keep it up Hillary and you will be a bigger sales booster than Obama.


15 posted on 05/23/2016 9:22:27 PM PDT by kalee
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To: econjack

“If stupid could fly, you’d be a jet”

hee hee hee

#headshake


16 posted on 05/23/2016 9:24:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“That’s a tall order in a country where gun ownership for recreational shooting and self-defense is wildly popular.”

Missing the mark by so far it has to be intentional.

The second amendment has nothing to do with either of those things, and everything to do with regulating the US militia (read “armed forces “).


17 posted on 05/23/2016 9:27:14 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Love your tagline.


18 posted on 05/23/2016 9:29:58 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: Ignatz

Thanks. I got heat for my earlier one. People who didnt like debating with me got pissy and tried to say it was theatening to them.


19 posted on 05/23/2016 9:36:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...her choices are limited. The media can only do so much, and Trump is gaining


20 posted on 05/23/2016 9:40:21 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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