Hillary Clinton said that a gun buyback measure similar to the one implemented in Australia “would be worth considering” at the national level on Friday.
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“We need more guns, they’ll argue, fewer gun safety laws”, Obama said at a press briefing October. 1, a clip of which plays in the Clinton campaign’s new video. “She serves as an example for all policymakers who truly want to serve the constituencies they are elected to represent”, a statement from the organization reads.
Speaking in front of about 1,000 people on the campus of Keene State University, Clinton issued what will undoubtedly be seen by the NRA as a provocative challenge by calling for the creation of a new body to check its power.
But much of Friday’s town hall in Keene – Clinton’s third visit to the city during her 11 trips to New Hampshire – was dedicated to answering more than a dozen questions from the multigenerational audience.
In the days after the first Democratic debate, Clinton has been capitalizing on the one issue where she can attack Sanders from the left. And Hillary seems to think there are no legal issues involved in government efforts to restrict gun rights or institute forced buybacks; no mention of the Second Amendment and I suppose in her mind if she gets four years of picked Supreme Court justices, in effect we won’t have a Second Amendment. And now that he’s heard both plead their case in person, Colasacco said he’s become a Clinton supporter – he thinks. That includes the NRA, and it includes a lot of people in public life today who are intimidated.
It may or may not be an indication of anxiety on the part of the NRA, but the country’s main pro-gun lobby is certainly keeping a very close eye on Clinton’s intensifying assault. “And I think she will work really hard to” end hatred and discrimination against the LGBT community, he added. “It’s not longer right”.
Clinton said that the Wisconsin ruling would act as a critical test of the 2005 law passed by Congress that granted gun manufacturers and sellers with a broad immunity against prosecution. The Westmoreland resident was shot with a high-powered rifled used to hunt big game at age 13 and said bullet fragments remain in her back.
Clinton also has a stop scheduled at Nashua Community College Friday afternoon to meet with the city’s Democratic committee and the state’s young party leaders.
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“I really liked the way she answered it”, the 19-year-old sophomore said. “Once was enough – getting up that early, standing in that cold water – I can tell you that much”.
