Gun control had been a flashpoint between the two Democrats before, including some sniping between the two during their first debate which led to charges Sanders was being sexist.
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Clinton called the San Bernardino attackers “killers” and “murderers” but didn’t call the rampage a terrorist attack, only referring to President Obama’s characterization that terrorism is a possibility. “We are trying to protect our fellow Americans – people like you and me who went to a holiday party”, she later at a town hall meeting in Dover.
News reports indicate that the guns used in the shooting were purchased legally. Clinton told her supporters it is time to stand up to the gun lobby.
Renewing a call for “sensible gun safety measures”, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton chastised congressional Republicans Thursday for blocking a vote on a plan that she said would ban those on the federal government’s No Fly List from buying guns.
“Ninety Americans a day die from gun violence”, she said. She returned to a core campaign theme, calling for equal pay, paid leave, and workplace opportunity for women. “So that puts working parents, especially working mothers, in a really tough spot”.
Londonderry resident Robin Skudlarek, who is an active volunteer with the advocacy group Moms Demand Action, said here on Thursday that she believes Clinton has a stronger record on guns than her main rival, Vermont Sen.
She highlighted a program in the Reno, Nev., area, where millions of dollars are being saved because homeless people are picked up from the streets, and placed in a residential environment where they have to work.
A majority of the 1,453 registered voters surveyed-59 percent-said they saw Sanders as honest and trustworthy, which places him above all other presidential candidates in the same category. After the nine people were killed in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, Clinton said the United States has to “keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the violently unstable while respecting responsible gun owners”.
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“It doesn’t seem to matter what he says or who he offends, whether the facts are contested or the “political correctness” is challenged, Donald Trump seems to be wearing Kevlar”, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, adding that Clinton and Sanders “have to be hoping Trump is the GOP’s guy”.
