Erica Smegielski, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung, will appear in a new ad for the Hillary Clinton campaign in the upcoming primary states of CT and Rhode Island.
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The panelists represented a broad swath of community members: some who lost close family members in the Sandy Hook shooting, some who broke free from the cycle of poverty and used their experience to forge a path for other disadvantaged youths and some who bore witness to and have made a decision to fight against the atrocities of gun violence. You know, joining a gang is like having a family.
Gun policy is one area where Clinton has had success portraying herself as more progressive than Sanders.
This hour, we talk about guns: how candidates are taking on the issue, and what supporters and opponents have to say about several bills now making their way through the Capitol. I would do everything as president to help reform the criminal justice system, work with our police departments; there are a lot of good departments and good police officers who are doing a very important and successful job, controlling crime, but doing it consistent with civil liberties, privacy, our rights.
In the past, Bill Clinton has often blamed the Democrats’ loss of Congress in 1994 on the gun issue, on the theory that he overrreached by passing an assault weapons ban and was punished by the National Rifle Association and American gun owners.
The event itself was held in a modestly sized room striped with folding metal chairs, which were filled by Clinton supporters, gun control and police reform advocates and scores of reporters and photographers.
Clinton has a small lead in Connecticut’s primary, which is on April 26. On Sunday he told CNN, “Of course they have a right to sue; anyone has a right to sue”. “When it comes to guns, we have just too many guns”, Clinton said. “There’s no doubt she would like to be in charge of dictating how many guns someone can own, but the Constitution just might get in her way, not to mention tens of millions of American voters who don’t care for the demagoguery she represents”.
“But we have got to do more to save more lives”, she added, vowing to take on the NRA and gun lobby which she called among the nation’s most influential.
Over more than an hour, Clinton engaged in an easy back-and-forth with the panel and a crowd that seemed to fill the gym, which had a capacity of 600.
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So it is with incredible gratitude to the people you’re about to hear from that I ask you to please join us in this effort. “I can only guarantee you I will do everything I can imagine” for them. “What we need to focus on is the everyday gun violence that plagues our cities and plagues our streets and plagues our towns”.
