After years of hesitation, Democrats rally around calls for gun control [View all]

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Source: washingtonpost



By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa October 14 at 9:47 PM

LAS VEGAS — The Democratic presidential candidates have thrust gun control forward as a dominant issue for the national election, signaling a sea change in the politics of a controversial subject that recent Democratic nominees have often avoided.

After years of deadly mass shootings across the country, and with President Obama voicing deep frustration with inaction by Republicans in Congress, the Democratic candidates led by Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed in a debate here Tuesday night to toughen restrictions on gun owners and gun manufacturers.

Most seemed not merely willing but determined and eager to lead the push for gun control into next year’s general election and effectively declared war on the National Rifle Association.

“We have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence,” Clinton said at the CNN event. “This has gone on too long, and it’s time the entire country stood up against the NRA.” .................

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Democrats are talking a risk. I am so glad we finally are laying out some proposals.



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Concerned about their safety and fed up with Congress, university students, organized by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, gathered for a demonstration on Capitol Hill Oct. 6. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post)