The integrity of Chairman (Trey) Gowdy, the committee and the work theyve accomplished is beyond reproach.Emily Schillinger, a spokeswoman for Boehner, said late Monday in response to the ad: This is a classic Clinton attempt to distract from her record of putting classified information at risk and jeopardizing our national security, all of which the FBI is investigating.Clinton said Monday that the committee was a partisan political exercise created to exploit the deaths of the four Americans, but stopped short of calling for it to be disbanded, as a few Democrats have urged.
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The Democratic presidential frontrunner said she would enforce universal background checks and close the loophole of sales on the internet and at gun shows that allow those with criminal records to buy weapons.
“This epidemic of gun violence knows no boundaries, knows no limits of any kind”.
She drew loud applause from the audience in New Hampshire, a rural state with strong hunting traditions and a mixed outlook on gun control, when she called on hunters to boycott the National Rifle Association and instead join “a different organization” that would support what she calls common-sense safety measures. She asked Ms Nicole Hockley, an audience member whose six-year-old son was killed along with 19 other children and six adults in a 2012 Connecticut school shooting, to speak briefly.
Clinton also proposes that Congress should repeal a law signed by former President Bush in 2005. Larry is our main news editor.
In the general election, the 84-year-old said, “I like Hillary, too, and I certainly would vote for her, or Biden”.
Exercising executive authority, Clinton would require that anyone who tries to sell a significant number of guns be deemed “in the business” of selling firearms, ensuring that they are subject to all the rules that apply to gun stores – including mandatory background checks. “If she’s not going to put up a firewall, Democrats will continue to question whether something is there”, said Scott Ferson, a Democratic operative. The plan would extend checks to online sales and gun shows.
Clinton spoke before over 700 people at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, as part of a two-day swing through the leadoff caucus state.
Hillary Clinton takes aim at gun lobby.
“We cannot sit by while more people die”, Clinton tweeted.
During an appearance at a campaign town hall, Clinton veered between sadness and anger, accusing her Republican opponents of “surrender” to a hard political problem.
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Meanwhile self-styled socialist Sanders, so far Clinton’s most prominent challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, has since May climbed from single-digit voter support among California voters to 35 percent, according to the poll. The proverbial lines are being drawn in the sand, and there can be little doubt gun owners will find themselves on one side while Clinton and the Fourth Estate seem to be on the other.
