Hillary Clinton: Gun Culture 'Way out of Balance'

Hillary Clinton: Gun Culture 'Way out of Balance'
WASHINGTON May 6, 2014 (AP)
By KEN THOMAS Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the nation's gun culture has gotten "way out of balance" and the U.S. needs to rein in the notion that "anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime."

The former secretary of state and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said the idea that anyone can have a gun is not in the "best interest of the vast majority of people." But she said that approach does not conflict with the rights of people to own firearms.

Clinton waded into the polarizing issue of gun politics during an appearance at the National Council for Behavioral Health conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, pointing to recent shootings that involved teens who had been playing loud music and chewing gum and a separate incident involving the typing of text messages in a movie theater.

"I think again we're way out of balance. I think that we've got to rein in what has become an almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun anywhere, anytime," Clinton said. "And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people. And I think you can say that and still support the right of people to own guns."

The Democratic-controlled Senate voted against legislation pushed by President Barack Obama last year that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases to gun shows and online sales. The legislation came in the aftermath of the deadly Sandy Hook elementary school shootings in Connecticut.

If Clinton runs for president, her views on gun control would clash with Republicans, who have largely opposed efforts to tighten gun laws. During a recent National Rifle Association conference in Indianapolis, for example, GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a potential 2016 candidate, said Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden considered the Second Amendment to be little more than "a phrase from a speech writer."

Clinton told attendees at the mental health conference that "at the rate we're going, we're going to have so many people with guns everywhere, fully licensed, fully validated" in settings like movie theaters where shootings have arisen over seemingly mundane things like loud gum chewing or cellphone use.

"That's what happens in the countries I've visited where there is no rule of law and no self-control and that is something that we cannot just let go without paying attention," she said.

During a question-and-answer session, Clinton was asked about the 1993 suicide of Clinton White House lawyer Vince Foster. Referring to him as "our friend in the White House," she said he had been depressed and "filled with anxieties." Like other men she has known who killed themselves, Clinton said, "they did not want to be seen as weak, they didn't want to admit their problems."

Her appearance coincided with the release by Vanity Fair magazine of excerpts from an article by Monica Lewinsky, who as a White House intern had an affair with Clinton's husband when he was president. The subject of Bill Clinton's affair with Lewinsky did not arise during Hillary Clinton's appearance at the mental health summit or at an early childhood education event later Tuesday at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Clinton said she was still considering her political future, telling the Maryland audience she is someone "who has to really mull things over."

"So stay tuned," Clinton said. "When I know, you'll know."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/clinton-raise-money-margolies-campaign-23600038

 

I'm not worried about the communist Clinton's. after what Onazi has done o destroy America, the nazicrats might as well go on vacation for the next decade until the sheep decide on another unhealthy "change."

 

I guess that ignorant cunt forgot about the 22,000 federal state and local firearms laws already on the books. Preventing everyone (but the criminals) from having a gun anywhere anytime.

 

IMO her stance is a good thing because it makes her even more radioactive, except to the hopeless like FC.

 

At least she's honest about it. For a Clinton that's a massive first step.

As I recall, Obama claimed to respect the Second Amendment and gun rights.

The problem is none of these anti-gun rights people can actually point to anything that would have prevented these tragedies. The guns typically are legally owned and the owners have gone through background checks.

What we have is not a gun control problem, but a mental health control problem and a gang banger control problem. Chicago has draconian gun laws, but it doens't seem to matter. Not when parts of your city resemble Mogadishu.

The military bans guns on bases. Too bad they weren't as concerned about crazy islamists like Maj. Nidal, the Ft. Hood terrorist.

The article makes typicla mainstream media "mistakes" that are actually just lies designed to push gun control. It says that guns shows and internet sales do not require background checks. That is nonsense. It is private sales that do not require background checks. If you buy from a dealer on the internet or at a show, you will have to do a background check. The Feinstein/Obama bill would have required background checks for intrafamily "transfers", ie you couldn't pass on a .22 rifle or shotgun to your son without a background check. That's what liberals call "common sense" gun control.

 

New Colorado gun law includes the requirement for a "private party sale" to go through a FFL ($40-$65-ish) and CBI background check ($10).... as well as magazines not exceeding 15 rounds.

Colorado, having already been Californicated, was quick to jump on new gun restrictions/legislation after Sandy Hook.... though most states did little more than talk.

 

No sane criminal would attempt to rob a bank if he knows that all the customers carry a gun.

 

"<B>NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE YOUR GUNS</b>"


“Our ultimate goal–total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.” “The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors-totally illegal.”
Richard Harris in The New Yorker, quoting Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc.

“It will happen one very small step at a time, so that by the time people have “woken up” — quote — to what’s happened, it’s gone farther than what they feel the consensus of American citizens would be.”
Stockton, California Mayor Barbara Fass: Speaking of the banning of firearms in the US, beginning with “the banning of semi-assault military weapons, that are military weapons, not “household” weapons.”

“There is little sense in gun registration. What we need to significantly enhance public safety is domestic disarmament . . . . Domestic disarmament entails the removal of arms from private hands.”
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros and Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, upon signing the Communitarian Network’s “Case for Domestic Disarmament.”

“I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs).”
Sen. John H. Chafee (R.-R.I.): In View of Handguns’ Effects, There’s Only One Answer: A Ban, Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 15, 1992, at 13A.

“Mr. Speaker, my bill prohibits the importation, exportation, manufacture, sale, purchase, transfer, receipt, possession, or transportation of handguns and handgun ammunition.”
Rep. Major Owens (D-Brooklyn, N.Y.), 139 Cong. Rec. H9088 at H9094, Nov. 10, 1993.

“There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun.” “I now think the only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns.”
Michael Gartner (then president of NBC News), Glut of Guns: What Can We Do About Them?, USA Today, Jan. 16, 1992

Speaking of the Assault Weapons Ban: “Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.”
Charles Krauthammer (nationally syndicated columnist), Disarm the Citizenry. But Not Yet, Washington Post, Apr. 5, 1996

“I think there should be a law — and I know this is extreme — that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.”
Rosie O’Donnell. Shannon Hawkins, Rosie Takes on the NRA, Ottawa Sun, April 29, 1999

“We’re talking about limiting people to one gun purchase or handgun purchase a month. Why not just ban the ownership of handguns when nobody needs one? Why not just ban semi-automatic rifles? Nobody needs one.”
Statement by Time Magazine, National Correspondent Jack E. White
L. Brent Bozell III, Lock-and-Load Mode Against the 2nd, Washington Times, May 8, 1999

“We will never fully solve our nation’s horrific problem of gun violence unless we ban the manufacture and sale of handguns and semiautomatic assault weapons.”
Jeff Muchnick, Legislative Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Better Yet, Ban All Handguns

“The goal of CSGV is the orderly elimination of the private sale of handguns and assault weapons in the United States.”
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, http://www.csgv.org/content/coalition/coal_intro.html (visited June 20, 2000)

“We Are NOT “Gun Banners”-and never have been… Handgun Control, Inc., has never advocated banning firearms used for legitimate purposes such as hunting and recreation.” Measures We Don’t Support,” Handgun Control Inc. March 16, 1999
As Eugene Volokh of the UCLA Law School points out: “Hopefully you noticed Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Campaign) doesn’t include self-defense as a “legitimate purpose” for owning a firearm.”

 

1) Only old farts go to banks anymore. They cannot pull a trigger.
2) Bank tellers are trained to give small amounts of cash to robbers and be compliant, not combative. The police can have the "liability" of apprehending the robber.

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the nation's gun culture has gotten "way out of balance" and the U.S. needs to rein in the notion that "anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime."
I hate to be a nit picky cause I know how leftists hate that, but "anybody" can't have a gun, and "anybody" can't have it "anywhere", and "anybody" can't have one "anytime". What's out of balance if the left trying to pass this fiction off as fact, and the media staying willfully ignorant as cover for this line of B.S.
There are laws, many, many laws preventing "Anybody" from LEGALLY owning a gun "anywhere" at "anytime". Criminals have a tough time obeying those laws, and leftists have a tough time grasping that obvious reality.