The former Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has launched a scathing attack on the National Rifle Association over Las Vegas shooting- calling for Americans to stand up to the powerful gun lobbying organisation and demand greater gun control.
During the election, the issue of gun rights became a major issue of disagreement between the two candidates. While Donald Trump promoted himself as a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, Clinton said she felt sensible regulations on who was able to buy weapons and the need for background checks.
The National Rifle Association spent more on the 2016 elections than it had ever done – a a minimum of $36m, according to the Centre for Responsive Politics.
Hypocrite Hillary using this tragical incident to promote her political agenda. Disgusting.
Yes that is what was disgusting to you, not the loss of life, not the people seriously wounded, not the children who were traumatized for life, but that Hillary spoke out on the need for sane gun control. Yup, you are definitely one of the compassionate ones.
OMG you are so clueless! Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and people there still get shot on a daily basis and not by cops, but by thugs! Gun Free Zones are a joke! Laws mean nothing to criminals. Do you really think anyone planning to go out and shoot innocent people is going to target a place where they know people are armed? And, by the way, Igor never said he wasn’t disgusted by the results of this atrocity. I’m sure Igor is very disgusted by what happened, just the rest of us are! But, it’s also disgusting that people like Hillary use tragedies, such as this, to push a political agenda! BTW, do some research on the scumbag who did this! He was a leftist POS!
Yes indeed it is Hillary’s political agenda that is the real story here. That and the fact that you seem more concerned. about your ability to have everyone in the country armed to the teeth in case the North Koreans invade America. I imagine you would be ok with the sale of Stinger and Hellfire missiles to the general public as long as you could show that you had a real need for them. A few Claymore mines to protect your home would be nice too.
Sensible people with guns are the biggest threat to shootings such as this. You sir are a freaking disgrace and an idiot. The guns this guy had were illegal
Thanks for pointing that stuff out.
People call the government fascists and Nazis. Those same people call for government to control guns. Makes no fu**ing sense.
Explain what new laws would have stopped this guy from doing this shooting. And remember, we already have laws that prohibit murder and he obviously was not concerned with following the laws that already exist.
So far in September in Chicago, there have been 57 gun deaths. 500 so far in 2017. Where is your outrage on that? Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun laws anywhere. It is not a gun problem, it is a problem with society. Literally every month, more people are shot and killed in Chicago than were killed in Las Vegas, yet where is the angst from the MSM, Hollywood, and Hilliary? GMAFB.
Oh, of course, one cannot be upset about the mass murder AND call Clinton on her crap. Oh no, not possible.
Hillary wants all Americans to have the same level of safety from gun violence as the people of Chicago and Baltimore enjoy every day.
“Tragical”? That isn’t even a word….but….Trump did the same thing immediately following the Pulse Nightclub massacre when he started calling for stricter immigration laws. I’ll just bet you didn’t complain after that “tragical” event.
The fact is, when Democrats held a legislative super-majority, they could have banned every single gun in the USA. They could have banned them by make, model, features, color, capacity, and feature. They didn’t do that. Would you like to know why? They were more worried about re-election than they were the lives of all the innocent widdle childrens. Of course, once they lose the majority, they can’t stop dancing on the still warm bodies and calling on Republicans to “do something.” The hypocrisy is downright sickening.
One is constitutionally protected. The other is not. The second in fact is a DUTY of federal government. Your “point” is invalid.
the guy had two airplanes, he could have flown a plane into that crowd and killed many more, would these morons have squealed about banning private planes? If a maniac is going to do something heinous, he will find a way. Look at Chicago you idiots, how’s that gun control working out for you
Not a chance in hell do we need more gun laws. It’s called the black market for a reason. If someone is so evil they murder, they will find a way. Gun control doesn’t work in Europe, it doesn’t work in Australia, it doesn’t work anywhere.
Amen to what you just stated. There are and will continue to be more mass shootings because one WHACKO will attempt to outdo other WHACKOS. Yes, we need to stand up to Grand standing political agendas, and fight for what Our Country stands for. Peace thru superior firepower, Cool heads, for when all goes to shit, Love for Our fellow man, and not to ever forget the Sacrafices Our fighting men and women have given to keep this the Greatest Nation Free. And above all, Give thanks to Our Lord, for letting it be so.
its sickening how Hillary and followers believe the gun is the problem. it seems to me it would be the extremists that Hillary wont acknowledge and how her views are seen by the people who are uneducated on firearms. the claim about the “silencer” I’m afraid she has no idea how they work, it is nothing like in the movies. aside from that, they are lega in Nevada,
Well then by your same argument, why is Trump so concerned about North Korea getting a nuke? The issue shouldn’t be the weapon.
Idiot, he’s not concerned about the nuke but who has it.
uh, this gun was already illegal. Just proved our point Hillary… Bad guys will always be able to get the weapons they need… He could have used a truck or an airplane, what would you do then? Hillary how about you start the example and tell your bodyguards to leave their guns at home.
He bought all the guns legally. He may have altered them himself or had someone do it for him. Nice try though.
Everything u mentioned is illegal. Nice try tho.
Why was the gun already illegal Keith?
You need to educate yourself on fully automatic firearm laws.
The bodies aren’t even cold yet and Hillary is already politicizing the attack. I can’t stand when trump does it and i sure won’t stand for it when that witch does it either.
Hildabeast standing on warm bodies… Who’da thunk it?
No, it’s time for liberal control
Hillary is a pandering bitch.
Too early to make any decisions or stupid statements
Full auto weapons, as was used in this attack in Las Vegas, are already highly regulated. There is NO such thing as a silencer, they are called a “suppressor”. It doesn’t matter if he would of had a “legal” suppressor, if the weapon he is firing is already an illegally obtained full auto AK47. He may have well bought an illegal suppressor as well…
The media, her media, stokes the Hate. And it is Hate that pulls the trigger, not the gun.
Leave it to hitlery clinton to stand on warm bodies to try once again to make herself, and her brain dead policy failures relevant again
Fully automatic rifles and pistols are already on the NFA “no-no” list, unless you spend a small fortune, get the right license and permits, and manage to aquire one built before 1986. This shooter supposedly modified his weapons to shoot full auto. Laws already exist to prevent this sort of thing, yet as this gunman proved, a determined criminal will break any law to achieve his objective of killing large numbers of people. More gun control laws will not stop future shooters, they will only infringe upon the rights of legal gun owners who have no intention or desire of harming anyone else. Every time there is a shooting, some dumbass Democrat starts screaming for gun control. And there arent too many dumber than Hitlery Rotten Clinton. Ok, Nancy Pelosi and Sheila Jackson Lee have her beat, but not by much!
It’s time for liberal, communist and islam control.
If you really believe this then you are in the wrong country. You should be packing your bags and getting your passport so you can leave the US ASAP. Apparently this man snapped and/or decided to try some illegal drugs that put him over the top. By the way, it has been reported that he was a liberal.
Go ahead and pack your bags for Turkey, Syria, Libya, or any of the EU countries that are taking in the Islamists. I do hope your not gay, cause your on the their list, oh and if your a Woman, better get ready to dress like a lamp shade and be beat the minute you step out of line. Oh and don’t tell me I don’t know what I am talking about, I have seen this first hand. Oh and if your a Christian you better be in a hurry to convert to ISLAM or you will be beaten, crucified or hell maybe you will get lucky and just be out right killed.
The poll asks the question as if there are no gun laws already. Do most people even know? Or know how they’re enforced? Or how many gun felons in Chicago for example are let out of jail after short sentences and commit more gun crimes?
Name one gun control law that stopped a Criminal. Come on now, just one.
Here’s what’s wrong with your poll: it presumes there is no gun control in place.
It presumes every time a person kills another person, with a gun, that the gun is the problem, and its elimination will somehow lead people to stop killing (suicide bombers anyone?).
The US already has gun control. So the question you should be asking is: What kind of gun control would have stopped the shooting at ___________ (seriously, pick the tragedy that you’re trying to politicize)?
How insulting. Should we remove the mufflers from our cars so that so many people aren’t killed by cars they didn’t hear? Is she really that uneducated about what a suppressor does? Does she really believe a suppresser quiets a firearm so much that it won’t be heard? Is all her gun knowledge learned at the movie cinema? As a politician she’s suppose to surround herself with the most educated people around. Would she have us believe none of them know anything about firearms either? Pretty hard to believe. So that only leaves the option that she’s intentionally lying to her supporters…who she must think are too stupid to think for themselves.
Since I already voted, I can’t see what the results are. Anyone know?
Stop trying to monopolize a tragedy with foolish babble about gun control! We don’t even know all of the details about his guns!
It is past time for gun control in the U S. Those hateful souls who lie that someone is coming to take away their guns want to keep on making sure the gun manufacturers continue to get paid and could care less about who is killed by those guns as a result. It should not surprise anyone though because this country was founded on violence! Just look at what the so-called settlers did to the Indigenous Peoples! The Indigenous peoples taught the so-called settlers how to survive the first harsh winter they were here and those same Indigenous peoples were repaid with blankets laden with small pox, then they took the gun too them and drove them off of their own land, and some they got hooked on whiskey and then tricked them into selling their land for pennies on the dollar. Those people they call blue-bloods are actually your early day criminals from bootleggers, to robber barons, to other forms of criminal activity. Please read the history of these so-called pilgrims and you will see that England cleaned up her streets and sent the dregs of her country to this country. At one time coming to America was considered a “punishment”! Don’t believe me, read your own history! This is a violent based nation so it just stands to reason that they would want to continue their mode of violence as a way of exerting their power over others and for the gun manufacturers to keep on getting paid. They erroneously believe that to have common sense gun control would negatively impact the gun manufacturers’ bottom line and it is my belief that the NRA is solely funded by the gun manufacturers so they lobby the senate and congress on behalf of those gun manufacturers to make sure no such laws are passed or enforced. Everything in this country is about hate, money and control- White control!
Oh geeze, go take your meds.
You think he had those guns legally? That’s the first thing people do when something horrible like this happens, punish the law-abiding citizens. England has completely banned firearms and is yet the leading murder capital of Europe. The highest murder rates in this country are the cities that have the strictest gun laws. People are less likely to commit violent crime and murder if there is a chance the victim can kill them in self-defense. Guns are NOT the problem. The lack of empathy and compassion, the fact that people are growing up today who do not value human life. When mothers can kill their unborn children without a hint of remorse, when teens are taught that their wants are more important than the rights and lives of other people, when people begin to think it is okay to wish death of an entire group of people because they have a different shade of skin or killing people because they voted differently than you . . . The problem is a societal one, not a Constitutional one. Be a better person – Teach your children to be better people and respect the rights and lives of others and this kind of atrocity won’t happen nearly so often as we’re seeing it now.
“Control”,of any kind is exactly that giving your rights to sanctimonious fanatics,with the promise of protecting you from yourself.Like every dictatorship throughout historyLiberals commited all these mass shootings,liberals condsuct these “polls”; asking other Liberals if we the people as a whole should give away our Libertys to other Liberals in power making them ‘Dear Leader’.it’s evil Liberalism is a mental disorder.its about controlling people & their lives by having Sociopathic people with guns;wearing robes & badges of authority telling you have no God given Right to protect yourself or your family.Because you have a differing opinion or anything countering them;you are nothing more than a ‘peasant’ to these people property of the state.If that doesn’t scream dictatorship because you voted for someone that is the opposite of their evil cult leader.Liberalism needs control those whom think their moral compass is the way when they have none or a conscience.
If society is honest and historically accurate, the only question that has any relevance to the gun control debate is,
“Do you trust those in government, now and forever in the future, to not take your life, liberty, or property through the force of government?”
If the answer to that question is “no,” the gun control debate is over.
So, the NRA spent on a 4 year election what CNN earns in ad dollars in a DAY.
Follow the money, as they say. The newswhores profit from agony, and treat it like a sports score with a new record to beat.
Hillary is all for gun laws like they have in Europe, but in most countries in Europe a suppressor is not just available but mandatory for range use etc. It is obvious from her tweet that she knows nothing about firearms or suppressors that she has not learned from bad TV movies. she obviously has done no research and doesn’t care, a bullet leaving a gun makes two noises, the bang when powder in the case fires. and a second louder crack when the bullet breaks the sound barrier. a suppressor helps with the first, does nothing for the second. A suppressor would have done nothing in this case where the shooter was so far away that people believed they were firecrackers going off.
No body on the left / gun control side want a true look at gun control. If all the facts are out and on the table, there is no way anyone would ever think about gun control. Everywhere it has even been use it has been disastrous. Everywhere from Detroit to Australia. after gun control crime has gone way up and the use of guns has gone up and remember they have gun control ( no to almost no guns allowed ) assault rape murder have gone through the roof. It is not and never has been the GUN it’s the mind set the people. further the worst mast murders around the world have not used guns, They used fertilizer bombs ( Timothy Timothy McVeigh ) box cutters 9/11 / car/Suicide bombers all over the world. On the other hand people carrying a gun has stopped crime before it even got started or limited the amount of damage done. SO NO gun control is not the answer and Like I said the gun controllers will never debate the issue they know they can not win
Crime is Crime. Until America can control all the evil-intent guns in the entire world maybe we had better hold onto our own. Self Defense concepts run the range from the Individual level of the single person to the wider and much larger National level of our country. As a stated free people in a free society under the Constitution Americans have a “Right to bear arms for defense” and that is a God-given right which no man should alter. To “bear arms” is not limited to firearms. Bearing arms can also be knives, swords, rakes, and other implements to assist in a favorable outcome of any skirmish with the criminal in some bid for equality of a defensive chance to survive. Pandora’s Box of firearms is wide open. Guns are here. Good people must keep the right of personal ownership in order to have some equal chance of defensive survival against a criminal element which will always have guns regardless of law and its legal restrictions. Police and Military cannot do it all. Mass-shootings are misfortunate Acts of the Criminal. Isn’t it obvious that The Anti-gun Left thinks that a civilized society is above a need for Guns because of the power of guns? Look at the ugliness in the world and it is easy to see that The Antis are in grievous error. We reserve a Right to Defend against the evil harboring an intent to take and change the Freedoms and Liberties our Constitution affirms are ours. Taking guns is an easy route for inept politicians which should be more directed to solving the illnesses of society leading to such horrible Crime.
You cannot control the human element. You CAN attempt to identify and treat mental illness that gives rise to such madmen, but that is not being done. It’s too costly, so instead of correcting that you want to take our guns away from us. Are you going to outlaw gasoline (molotov cocktails), common household chemicals that can be used to make homemade explosives, cars, large trucks, poisons, airplanes, etc to protect us from ourselves? This is the usual knee-jerk reaction from the factions that wish to see the populus unarmed, so they have nothing to fear when they start persecuting the people and taking their rights away. We didn’t outlaw airplanes after 9/11, or trucks after Oklahoma City……
If the NRA spent 36 million, how much did the Clinton’s spend?
Looks like the answer is a big No
Still waiting for U-Haul”s and pressure cookers to be outlawed!!
That poll didn’t go how you thought it would, did it?
It’s wishful thinking at this point that you can “control” it. You cannot anymore than banning drugs has worked. We need mental health services increased, more resources, more public education at times like this instead of the usual 2nd amendment battles, we need to seek the common ground to get people help sooner rather than too late. But all this is lost isn’t it? The left always leaps at the chance before bodies are warm to divide the public, politicize the bodies and attack opponents.