In an interview with Fox & Friends on Sunday, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, said that he both does not want guns in classrooms and thinks that some classrooms should have guns.
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Hillary Clinton on Sunday continued to chastise Donald Trump, hammering home a message that stands to become a major theme of her likely general-election opponent. Clinton noted that her contest against President Barack Obama in 2008 was much closer than her rivalry with Sanders, but she then did her best to unite the party behind Obama.
“I believe it’s the most powerful lobby in Washington”, Clinton said at the Trayvon Martin Foundation’s Circle of Mothers dinner in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday night.
“That idea isn’t just way out there, it’s risky”, Clinton said.
“Parents, teachers and schools should have the right to keep guns out of classrooms”.
Security and staff at several of Trump’s hotels and golf courses have told ABC News that guests are not allowed to carry guns there.
To add to the confusion, Trump later claimed “trained teachers should be able to have guns in classrooms”. Clinton is down five points among registered voters while Trump is up six.
Queen Thompson Brown, a Miami mother whose son was the victim of gun violence in 2006 and who has mentored Fulton, said she and others do not want to take away guns from Americans but hope to “promote common sense gun laws”.
In January, Trump painted a different picture.
“I know that slogans come and go. My first day. There’s no more gun-free zones”, he said back in January at a rally in Vermont.
In the past, Donald Trump has created controversy by proposing that all Muslims be banned from entering the USA for an unspecified amount of time, that women who have abortions should be punished, and even allowing other countries to have nuclear weapons.
Despite the scrutiny coming from the Democratic party and people in his own Republican party, Donald Trump is busy making the case, or not making the case, for guns in schools and explaining what will happen to those Republicans who refuse to support him.
Trump characterized that statement as “wrong!” but the Washington Post’s Fact Checker found that Clinton’s charge was accurate, based on Trump’s past promises.
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At the NRA’s annual convention, he said Clinton is “the most anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment candidate ever to run for office”.
