Clinton said during the presser that questioning whether one of her top gun issues – banning people on the “No Fly List” from purchasing weapons – would have prevented what happened in San Bernardino was “like the question: ‘How do you prove a negative?'”
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Sanders argued that coming from a rural state with little to no gun control equipped him to forge “broad consensus” on new measures.
House Republicans have said they do not plan to aggressively pursue new gun legislation.
“I know we can save lives and we shouldn’t be conflating the two”, she said, referring to her efforts to protect people from terrorism and to the GOP criticism about gun control.
A 2014 study conducted by Indiana State University found that prior to the September 11 terror attacks, bombs were the most common weapon for lone-wolf terrorists carrying out attacks on US soil, but since 2001, lone-wolf terrorists have increasingly turned to high-powered guns as their weapon of choice. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
In the first Democratic debate, Clinton said Sanders wasn’t tough enough on guns, citing the Vermont senator’s votes against the Brady Bill and vote for an immunity provision for the gun industry.
The email came a day after 14 people were killed in a shooting in San Bernardino, California.
“Hillary Clinton, despite knowing that terrorists were responsible for the attack, allowed her spokesman to go to the Arab world and blame an Internet film”.
On a call for reporters organised by the Republican National Committee on Wednesday, officials suggested that Mrs. Clinton’s spending proposals would run up the deficit and create a new era of big government.
“When asked “Would you say that Donald Trump is honest and trustworthy or not?”
“And the crazed email from Sidney Blumenthal shows that she was taking direction on her Benghazi spin based upon attack-style presidential campaign politics”, said Fitton.
Robert Spitzer, a political science professor at SUNY Cortland, and the author of several books on gun policy, says the fact that some of the presidential candidates are talking about guns at all is something new. Gun control has emerged as an issue following a recent series of mass shootings.
Fifty percent of Democrats support Clinton, the former secretary of state, while 36 percent support Sanders, according to a five-day rolling poll from Reuters/Ipsos dated Tuesday.
“People have due process rights in this country”, he said, noting that those on the watch list are added without due process. “I know that we can save lives and we shouldn’t be conflating the two”.
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Nearly three years after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, with mass shootings occurring nearly daily, many Americans agree with that.
