Hillary - suddenly the 'Annie Get Your Gun'

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Hillary suddenly 'Annie Get Your Gun' because it's popular in PA.

Hillary Clinton on Gun Control


Keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them
We need to stand firm on behalf of sensible gun control legislation. We have to enact laws that will keep guns out of the hand of children and criminals and mentally unbalanced persons. Congress should have acted before our children started going back to school. I realize the NRA is a formidable political group; but I believe the American people are ready to come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them.
Source: www.hillary2000.org, “Gun Safety” Sep 9, 2000

License and register all handgun sales
Hillary Rodham Clinton offered her support for a legislative proposal to license hand guns. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer, would require anyone who wants to purchase a gun to obtain a state-issued photo gun license. “I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun,” Clinton said. “I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry, such as Chuck is proposing.”
Source: CNN.com Jun 2, 2000

Tough gun control keeps guns out of wrong hands
I think it does once again urge us to think hard about what we can do to make sure that we keep guns out of the hands of children and criminals and mentally unbalanced people. I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.
Source: Press Release Jul 31, 1999

Gun control protects our children
We will not make progress on a sensible gun control agenda unless the entire American public gets behind it. It is really important for each of you to make sure you stay away from guns. If you have guns in your home, tell your parents to keep them away from you and your friends and your little brothers and sisters.
Source: Forum at South Side Middle School in Nassau County Jul 15, 1999

Don’t water down sensible gun control legislation
We have to do everything possible to keep guns out of the hands of children, and we need to stand firm on behalf of the sensible gun control legislation that passed the Senate and then was watered down in the House. It does not make sense for us at this point in our history to turn our backs on the reality that there are too many guns and too many children have access to those guns-and we have to act to prevent that.
Source: Remarks to NEA in Orlando, Florida Jul 5, 1999

Lock up guns; store ammo separately
If you own a gun... make sure it’s locked up and stored without the ammunition. In fact, make it stored where the ammunition is stored separately. We’ve made some progress in the last several years with the Brady Bill and some of the bans on assault weapons, but we have a lot of work to do.
Source: ABC’s “Good Morning America” Jun 4, 1999

http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Hillary_Clinton_Gun_Control.htm

[Nitrogenica]

1. If you get shot, apologize to the shooter.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. Hillary suddenlt thinks people should be hunting and shooting!

how come we didn't hear that before?

[ORDem]

28. Oh, how I long to see a photo of her in a flourescent orange vest and those funny

hats with the ear flaps. ROFL!

[KittyWampus]

2. Hillary's going to get her ass handed to her.

[ampad]

6. Yup

I suspect the backlash come next week. She has gone too far with this.

[City Lights]

3. How long before her new campaign song is, "Anything You Can Do?"

:eyes:

I can hear her now...

Anything you can do,
I can do better.
I can do anything
Better than you.

Anything you can be
I can be greater.
Sooner or later,
I'm greater than you.

:rofl:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. LOL!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Gun-gate. Time to call her out.

THESE are issues.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. We want to know where she stands on gun control. NRA where are you darlings!

[roguevalley]

21. you poke the hornets nest of guns, you get stung.

[kevinmc]

8. I heard once while hunting ... she killed a bear with a knife .... n/t

[panader0]

9. No, it was a castration

[MojoMojoMojo]

10. Im a gun owner I am in line with Hillarys stance .Gun ownership requires responsibility.

Whereas Obama wants to ban the manufacture of handguns and make it illegal to carry .This stance will kill him in the GE.

[Faygo Kid]

11. You're a single issue voter. Aren't you on the wrong forum?

There are many friendlier places to single issue gun nut voters than DU.

Perhaps you would find them more hospitable.

[MojoMojoMojo]

12. Youre dreaming .I dont give a shit about the issue except that its a constitutional right.

If the Dems dropped the whole matter we would never lose another election.
But I do agree with Hillarys stance.Responsible ownership.
Obama already blew it in the GE.He honestly has no chance.Glass jaw.

[AllentownJake]

18. Right

We should drop the abortion issue and freedom of religion issue too. Than everyone would vote for us.

I live in a city. Handguns are a huge fucking problem. Assholes go to VA buy 30 guns and dump them on our streets. The NRA and the gun manufactures do everything they can to allow this to keep happening.

[Chulanowa]

22. Really? Where did you find this info, please?

[stillcool]

26. Obama wants what?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/obama-common-se.html
Obama: 'Common Sense Regulation' on Gun Owners' Right

February 15, 2008 2:09 PM

ABC News' David Wright, Ursula Fahy and Sunlen Miller Report: After another campus shooting, this time in his home state of Illinois, Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama offered thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families. But no new ideas for gun control.

"Today we offer them our prayers, but we must also offer them our determination to do whatever it takes to eradicate this violence from our streets and our schools," he said.

But Obama has been careful, throughout the campaign, to play down the issue of gun control, no doubt mindful that to do so would alienate many of the independent and Republican voters he is hoping to win over.

In fact, in the speech Obama gave immediately after the Virginia Tech shootings last April, he never uttered the phrase "gun control."

Today Obama reiterated his support for tighter enforcement of laws already on the books – such as stronger background checks and enhancing programs to trace the provenance of guns used in crimes. He would also seek to close the loopholes that currently apply to firearms purchased at gun shows.

But asked today about the DC handgun ban currently being reviewed by the US Supreme Court, Obama declined to take a position for or against its Constitutionality but did express broad support for the rights of local jurisdictions to make such decisions for themselves.

Watch the VIDEO HERE.

"The city of Chicago has gun laws, so does Washington, DC," Obama said. "The notion that somehow local jurisdictions can't initiate gun safety laws to deal with gangbangers and random shootings on the street isn't born out by our Constitution."

Obama often boasts, in his stump speeches, that he would be a President who understands the Constitution because he has taught the Constitution. Today a reporter asked for his interpretation of the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, which gun owners often cite in their arguments against gun control.

Obama said this: "There's been a long standing argument by constitutional scholars about whether the second amendment referred simply to militias or it spoke to an individual right to possess arms. I think the latter is the better argument. There is an individual right to bear arms, but it is subject to common-sense regulation just like most of our rights are subject to common-sense regulation. So I think there's a lot of room before you getting bumping against a constitutional barrier for us to institute some of the common-sense gun laws that I just spoke about."

[jody]

13. Dem Party says "We will protect Americans' Second Amendment right to own firearms". n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. and hunting poor defenseless animals?

[jody]

16. No, state constitutions and our Constitution require government to protect the inalienable right

of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms primarily for self-defense and secondarily for defense of state.

SCOTUS heard D.C. v. Heller on 18 March 2008 and will rule in June.

Most people believe the decision will say the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right, not a collective right.

[JimGinPA]

17. K&R

[RamboLiberal]

19. Hillary is pandering to gun owners

She's a flip flopper. If she would get the nom Repukes would hammer her over the stupid AWB passed in the 90's and signed by Bill plus all her on the record speaking out against guns.

Stepping up the Clinton Administration's campaign against gun violence, Hillary Rodham Clinton used an emotional White House ceremony today to call on Americans to press Congress to ''buck the gun lobby'' and pass several gun control measures.

Today's event, pegged to Mother's Day, which is Sunday, was held in the formal East Room of the White House and featured three parents of children killed or wounded by gunfire. They included Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was killed last month in the shooting rampage in Littleton, Colo. His story of waiting for word about his son's fate brought Mrs. Clinton nearly to tears as she took the podium and gravely addressed an audience of other parents who had lost their children in shootings.

The Senate is to begin debate next week on a number of gun control measures, some of which mirror proposals offered recently by President Clinton. ''The senators need to hear from all of us,'' Mrs. Clinton said. She urged voters ''to give them the encouragement to do what they know is right and to remind them that there are many, many millions of American voters and citizens who will stand behind political leaders who are brave enough to buck the gun lobby, wherever that may take us, so that they will vote for the measures that we know will save lives.''

Mrs. Clinton was as careful as her husband has been to say that there are many causes of violence and that parents need to take responsibility for their children's behavior. But Mrs. Clinton, who is considering running for the Senate from New York, where gun control is popular, has also been more forceful than the President in directly taking on the powerful gun lobby in the aftermath of the Littleton killings.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E7D9173FF93AA35756C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[Rosa Luxemburg]

23. Hillary must think we are not watching?

why would she drool over guns for PA and yet on the other hand bucks the gun lobby?

[RamboLiberal]

24. Hell this week she called for the AWB to be renewed

This is one law that gun owners consider stupid in the extreme!

Clinton also renewed her call for reinstating the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/elections/presidential/17543469.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. will the media pick up on this duplicity over guns?

[Eurobabe]

20. She heard the faux outrage calling at 3am. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

27. K&R