Clinton Calls For “National Movement” On Gun Control To Match The NRA’s & NRA 1st Tweet [View all]

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I am glad Democrats are stepping up on this important issue. I included what Mother Jones says is the 1st comment from the NRA below. Remember when they came out guns a barreling after Sandy Hook. They sure have changed their tune.






http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/hillary-clinton-calls-for-national-movement-to-match-the-nra?utm_term=.pnP24LGAq#.elRERjNba

Hillary Clinton Calls For “National Movement” On Gun Control To Match The NRA’s

“So we’re gonna take them on. We took them on in the ’90s. We’re gonna take them on again.”



posted on Oct. 2, 2015, at 3:57 p.m.
Ruby Cramer


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The day after the shooting that killed 10 people at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, Hillary Clinton called for a “national movement” strong enough to rival the National Rife Association, which she described as “an intense, dedicated group” of gun lobbyists who “scare politicians and say, ‘We will vote against you.’”

Clinton, who has made new gun restrictions a regular feature of her speeches on the campaign trail, addressed the shooting at a rally in Florida on Friday.

In other recent appearances, Clinton has advocated specifically for universal background checks on gun-buyers — an initiative that failed in Congress under President Obama.
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“What is wrong with us that we can’t stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby and the gun manufacturers that they represent?” she said to cheers from the crowd..............

Clinton promised that, if elected, she would “never relent” in trying to pass new gun measures. She acknowledged that passing new measures — which Obama was unable to do even in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School — would be what she called “a political mountain to climb.”


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And:

Mother Jones ‏@MotherJones 8h8 hours ago

The NRA's first tweet since the massacre in Oregon was about a kid's gun program http://bit.ly/1hfU1nc



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