Hillary Clinton calls for renewed assault weapons ban: they're a 'weapon of war'
Clinton called for the reinstatement of ‘commonsense gun safety reform’ in the wake of the worst mass shooting in US history at a gay nightclub in Floridahttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/hillary-clinton-commonsense-gun-safety-reform-orlando-attack
“We can’t fall into the trap set up by the gun lobby that says if you cannot stop every shooting you shouldn’t try to stop any,” she said.
Clinton’s tough stance on gun control sets up a torrid fight with her Republican rival for the White House Donald Trump, who has positioned himself as a champion of the second amendment and dismissed any calls for greater gun controls as weakness. She insisted that while she did believe that law-abiding American citizens have the right to own guns, it was also possible to see that “reasonable, commonsense measures” could be taken that would make people more safe from guns.
Rattling off all the ways that Florida allows the proliferation of guns – the state doesn’t regulate assault weapons or large capacity magazines, doesn’t require a permit to buy a gun or oblige owners of weapons to be licensed – she said: “That’s a lot of ‘nots’. I believe strongly that commonsense gun safety reform across our country would make a difference. We know the gunman used a weapon of war to shoot down at least 50 innocent Americans.”
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Enough with this NRA "good guy with a gun" myth. When are people going to come to their senses?
Thank you for this, BlueMtexPat. Hillary is the right person to lead us to commonsense solutions on guns. She, like Obama, understands that we as a country must do something to stop the thousands of innocent lives taken so brutally every year.
Trump an uninterrupted - and uncritical - time to spew hatred of everything and everyone - except GUNS - on the world stage right now!
CNN 
And my spouse who insists on watching the epitome of hatred that Trump expresses is walking a VERY fine line right now.
Very fine!
in his CNN speech or my spouse walking a very fine line by insisting on watching it when such crap literally makes me want to vomit?
We are currently in a small apartment (one which I love) but there isn't really enough space to go to get away from such crap. 
I was VERY surprised ... and VERY unhappy with him. I still am ... and he knows it! Perhaps it was a bit of contrarianism. 
I can't stomach Trump at all. His hate-speech is simply intolerable. My husband IS a Hillary supporter - which is why he is still in the apartment right now. 
Not at you, C_N_Y!
At the very idea!