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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,705 posts)
Sat May 21, 2016, 06:50 PM May 2016

Hillary Clinton to blast Donald Trump's gun proposals at Florida gathering

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is primed to attack Donald Trump's proposals on firearms as dangerous ideas for America's children just one day after the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee addressed the National Rifle Association's convention and earned the group's endorsement.

Clinton, who has positioned herself as a staunch advocate on gun control, will serve as a keynote speaker Saturday night at the third annual "Circle of Mothers" conference in Fort Lauderdale, hosted by the Trayvon Martin Foundation. Past attendees have included family members of victims from the Sandy Hook Elementary School and Aurora movie theater massacres, along with the close relatives of police shooting victims Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-gun-proposals-florida-election-2016/

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Hillary Clinton to blast Donald Trump's gun proposals at Florida gathering (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2016 OP
Good! Iliyah May 2016 #1
And so many posters saying she had abandoned the gun issue...they were wrong lunamagica May 2016 #2
The Democratic Primary is ongoing, branford May 2016 #4
Gun control goes over well in madville May 2016 #3
 

branford

(4,462 posts)
4. The Democratic Primary is ongoing,
Sat May 21, 2016, 08:49 PM
May 2016

and she still needs court the Bernie voters and generate Democratic unity for the general election.

She's also moved so far to the left of Bernie on the gun control issue in so short a time during this primary that it's now virtually impossible for her to return to the center. She's all in on gun control whether she likes it or not.

Let's see how strict gun control actually plays in Florida (and Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, etc.) during the presidential election, particularly now that the NRA has officially endorsed Trump before he even officially receives the Republican nomination.

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