Clinton touts her experience with guns

CNN: April 12, 2008
Clinton touts her experience with guns


Sen. Evan Bayh looks on as Sen. Clinton greets supporters in Valparaiso, Indiana.

VALPARAISO, Indiana (CNN) — Hillary Clinton appealed to Second Amendment supporters on Saturday by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers.

“I disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about trade and immigration simply out of frustration,” she began, referring to the Obama comments on small-town Americans that set off a political tumult on Friday. She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said. “You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It’s part of culture. It’s part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it’s an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter.”

Minutes later, in a slightly awkward moment, Clinton faced a question from a woman in the audience whose son had been paralyzed by a gunshot. The woman asked Clinton what she would do about gun control as president. Clinton touted her husband's record on gun control during his administration, and said "there is not a contradiction between protecting Second Amendment rights" and the effort to reduce crime.

Noting that many hunters and gun collectors want to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, Clinton referred to her positive childhood experiences with firearms. "As I told you, my dad taught me how to shoot behind our cottage,” she said. “I have gone hunting. I am not a hunter. But I have gone hunting." Clinton said she has hunted ducks.

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Thank goodness this primary campaign is drawing to a quick close
because I cannot stand Hillary's triangulated parsing and pandering for one more news cycle.

TOTAL DISASTER...Lost both the Congress and Senate over a stupid gun ban, that expired almost 5 years ago...

Yea, real smart...

EDIT: GUN CONTROL, the gift that keeps on giving...to Republicans..

:spank:

This gun bullshit makes me sick. I promise I won't think yer a wimp or a wuss if you fess up to never firing a gun. In fact I give you points for honesty.

Even more points for saying you just flat don't give a shit about guns and it ain't even an issue as far as you are concerned.

Which it isn't. Nobody is gonna get in office just to take our guns. It takes a majority vote in both houses of congress to do anything like that and that is just not gonna happen.

We have a lot more important shit to worry about in this country.

As Senator Obama has pointed out.

And I'm the richest person in the world, right?

let's hope she "misspoke" on this one too.

an intelligent person will conclude that HC & BO have called for banning semiautomatic firearms and handguns.

Their positions are opposite to the Democratic Party platform.

The only sure way for them to erase the perception among voters that they are gun-grabbers is to promise voters, "I will veto every bill that comes to me as president that infringes upon the natural, inherent, inalienable right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms for self-defense".

No excuses for past statements, or votes, or association with people/groups that want to ban handguns, semiautomatic firearms, or all guns.

Just a simple, unconditional promise to veto such bills.

In spite of their anti-RKBA history, I will vote for either of them in the GE but my Yellow Dog Democrat vote is not enough to put one of them in the White House.