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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Good Lord, the leftists HATE the Constitution!!!!!!
Paraphrased: “I’ll gut that right so fast it’ll make your head spin if I get the chance.”
Wow. Being interviewed by your husband’s former chief of staff. Talk about going into the lion’s den.
Nuanced my arse!
They view the Constitution as an obstacle to their goal of complete statist domination of the people in this country.
but she won’t hesitate to call the non right of having an abortion a right.... The left is destroying this once great nation.
This heinous b%*@^ knows as much about The Second Amendment as she does about Benghazi and the illegal immigration nightmare she created in Libya by overthrowing Mummar Qaddafi
Hillary has said that she thinks Heller was incorrectly decided. Her view is that the 2nd amendment protects the right of government regulated militias to possess arms.
The mere fact that she was evasive with her answer shows her true intent. PERIOD.
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“Wow. Being interviewed by your husband’s former chief of staff. Talk about going into the lion’s den.”
I know, “Godwin’s Law” and all, but Stepinawfulstuff interviewing Mrs. Clinton is like Goebbels interviewing Adolph.
What a farce.
Traitors to the Republic hate the Constitution...you must be a serf to them.
Hllary is on record saying that the Heller ruling (Heller, which recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms) is a mistake (”terrible deciion” is her exact wording), and that her and Chuck Schumer had major gun control plans in 2017.
No, Hillary, trying to make the law abiding gun owners all into criminals WILL NOT distract anyone from your multiple felonies.
I wouldn’t trust Hitlery to scrub the toilets at the White House, much less be president.
Steph preparing to interview Clinton:
I must remember to say as often as possible: “And of course a huge majority of the people in this country agree with you on this issue. Only the bigoted racists see it the other way.”
Put her in a zoo and throw peanuts at her. Tell folks she’s a yeti with the mange.
Unfortunately, in doing so, it created a loophole which liberals have seized to use the federal government to create and enforce "rights" that are contrary to the objective and universal Laws of G-d.
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