“We have to take account … our gun laws and the easy access to those guns by people who shouldn’t get them”.
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The Democratic presidential front-runner also said the United States is in “conflict” with ISIS, but declined to declare war, as some of her Republican counterparts have done. “When pressed additional, Clinton continued: “Well, war is a very legal cycle as you know so well.”I think what we want to do is make sure we have each one tool at our disposal to destroy their would be caliphate in Syria and in Iraq. They know they’re not radical Islamic jihadists”.
During the interview with ABC News today, Clinton was asked about Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University in Virginia, who on Friday said that concealed-carry permits “could end those Muslims before they walked in…and killed them”. “They are going to have to help us”, Clinton said.
“It is a little bit amusing that the Republican National Committee would go after me, since all of their candidates and their party philosophy is massive spending cuts and massive tax decreases for those at the very top, with no thought on how to pay for it or the trillion of dollars it would add to the national debt”, she said.
Hillary Clinton called on Congress to update the use-of-force authorization passed after 9/11, so Barack Obama could have more options when it comes to the war against ISIS. Last month, during a major speech on the threat delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations in NY, she said that Silicon Valley should “not… view government as its adversary”.
“The left’s immediate reaction to Islamic terrorists, like kittens with their eyes closed, is not to go after the bad guys, but immediately to try to seize the guns of law-abiding citizens”, said Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
But former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Clinton shouldn’t hesitate about calling the terrorists Muslims.
Clinton said rhetoric like Fallwell’s will only “aid and comfort” ISIS.
Clinton called on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down radical ISIS propaganda to stem the tide of terrorist recruiting.
“Call it for what it is, the idea that this is not radical Islamic terrorism or that there or that somehow there are Buddhist, radical Buddhists, radical Christians”, Bush told ABC. “I believe the United States should be leading an effort right now to assemble a coalition just like we saw on the first Gulf War”. “They (Islamic State) have declared war on us”. Bernie Sanders said fighting terrorism and increased gun control are not mutually exclusive.
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“If you look at the story about this woman and maybe the man, too, who got radicalized, self-radicalized, we’re going to need help from Facebook, and from YouTube and from Twitter”, she said. We will utterly destroy them.
