Gun control groups see a friend in Hillary Clinton.
Gun control groups are gearing up for a Hillary Clinton campaign for president, saying the White House hopeful could prove a gigantic boon for their own policy devices.
“As Hillary runs for president, she has a tremendous opportunity to educate the American public about how effective background checks are and the need to finish the job,” said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, to the Hill.
Clinton has been a staunch supporter of more gun control, telling a CNN town event crowd in mid-2014 the government needs to take more steps to expand background checks and ban asssault weapons.
“We cannot let a minority of people, and that’s what it is, a minority of people, hold a view point that terrorizes the majority of people,” she said then.
Clinton also campaigned heavily for a national gun registry in 2000 during her run for the Senate.
Now gun control advocates are enthusiastic about the idea of her carrying that rhetoric onto the campaign trail.
“We need a president in the White House who is willing to stand up to the gun lobby,” said Mark Prentice, a spokesman for Americans for Responsible Solutions, the Hill reported.
But Second Amendment rights people and Republican presidential candidates say if Clinton wants to make a federal case out of cracking down on gun rights – well, bring it on.
“If Hillary Clinton is going to join with Barack Obama and the gun grabbers and come after our guns, then what I say is come and take it,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, at the recent National Rifle Association’s annual convention.
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