Can Hillary Clinton change the gun debate?

[SecularMotion]

Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a list of tough new gun control measures this week, seeking to channel public outrage after yet another mass murder on a school campus. Her package was ambitious, even bold, but it's not likely to go anywhere even if she's elected president, which tells us something about the state of gun control politics in America.

Clinton proposed new laws to make background checks on gun buyers nearly universal and repeal a rule that allows a sale to proceed if the background check isn't complete within three days. She said she would revive the defunct ban on military-style assault weapons and repeal a law that bars victims of gun violence from suing gun manufacturers.

At a town meeting in New Hampshire on Monday, her voice cracked as she introduced the mother of a 6-year-old boy who died in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. "How much longer can we just shrug?" Clinton demanded.

She was tougher than most Democratic candidates in past presidential campaigns, including the Hillary Rodham Clinton who ran in 2008. Back then, Clinton supported background checks and the assault-weapons ban, but the issue wasn't a big part of her campaign. Indeed, after then-Sen. Barack Obama dismissed rural voters as "clinging to guns or religion," she defended gun ownership as part of the American way of life.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1007-mcmanus-clinton-gun-control-20151007-column.html

[upaloopa]

1. It's us who has to change the gun debate.

Politicians depend on gun lobby contributions which is why nothing gets done.
If campaigns were changed to public financing lobbies would not be as powerful
We need to tackle a bunch of issues together by first changing how we finance elections.
I was watching a documentary on prohibition and they worked on it for nearly a century before the amendment was passed. They saw it as a safety at home issue because men. Were beating wives and kids and spending the rent on booze.
Today we can't do much about guns but we should not give up.
The numbers of gun owners is decreasing even though they buy more guns.
These gun owners will pass away in time and you get people aren't as fascinated with guns as their parents or grand parents were. We should offer to by guns from estates and destroy them.
Lot's can be done over time to reduce the numbers of guns.

[mmonk]

2. Not if she uses the DU approach.

[pipoman]

3. No, she can't amend the constitution which will be necessary to do most of her list...

[LondonReign2]

4. Not that we shouldn't continue to try

However, if Sandy Hook didn't change the debate I shudder to think what it would take.

[Fumesucker]

5. It's not like she hasn't tried before