The anti-gun agitprop propagators at Michael Bloomberg’s The Trace has assembled direct quotes from Ms. Clinton indicating that the Democratic presidential candidate supports gun rights. Oh wait! The quotes do no such thing. In fact, The Trace provides the pro-gun side with additional ammo for their argument that Ms. Clinton is to gun rights what the Orkin army is to cockroaches. Check it out . . .
“The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.”
–PRIVATE EVENT IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 2015
Funded by the aforementioned anti-ballistic billionaire bully boy, Democrats have decided that they can say it loud and say it proud: individual Americans don’t have a Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, as determined by the Supreme Court’s Heller and McDonald decisions.
By opposing the Supreme Court’s decision affirming and incorporating Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, Ms. Clinton revealed her unabashed, unalloyed antipathy to gun rights. Full stop.
“I do not believe that the NRA represents most gun owners. They sure don’t represent the majority of Americans. But they have so intimidated elected members of Congress and other legislative bodies that these people are passing the most absurd laws.”
–PRIVATE EVENT IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 2015
The NRA enjoys more popular support — a 58 percent favorability rating — than Congress, Ms, Clinton and the media. Yet Ms. Clinton’s slavish devotion to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals playbook requires that she demonize someone for the firearms freedom she detests. The NRA is it.
Equally, Ms. Clinton’s use of the word “absurd” to characterize laws protecting gun rights tells us what we need to know about that. Again.
“A good first step is closing the ‘Charleston loophole’ in our gun laws, which allows a person otherwise prohibited from buying a gun — such as a domestic abuser or other violent criminal — to buy one if a background check isn’t completed within three business days. This loophole allowed the alleged Charleston shooter to buy his gun despite his prior arrest record.”
–OPEN LETTER RELEASED IN JUNE 2016, ON THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY CHARLESTON CHURCH SHOOTING.
The anti-gun left created the term “Charleston loophole” to exploit a horrific mass murder — and obscure the fact that the FBI failed in its statutory obligation to process an “instant” firearms background check in the required three days. Ms. Clinton would like to see the three-day period abolished, allowing the government to delay firearms purchases indefinitely. As Martin Luther King pointed out, a right delayed is a right denied.
“If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorists links, you shouldn’t be able to just go buy a gun.”
–CAMPAIGN RALLY IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE 2016
If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorists links, you shouldn’t be able to vote. Or have due process. Etc. This is naked government tyranny, brought to you by a woman who wants to be president who views laws protecting gun rights as “absurd.”