Today’s Hillary News & Views begins with Clinton’s focus on gun control, a choice that keeps tragically showing its relevance with one mass shooting after another.
Clinton was speaking about gun control when news broke of the mass shooting in California.
Mother Jones reports:
Clinton happened to be speaking about the need for gun control at a campaign stop in Florida just as the attack was unfolding, per ABC News' Liz Kreutz. In a tweet, Kreutz quoted Clinton as saying that:
"It means standing up to the gun lobby. 90 Americans a day die from gun violence: homicide, suicides, tragic avoidable accidents. 33 thousand Americans a year die. It is time for us to say we are going to have comprehensive background checks, we are gonna close the gun show loopholes. We are gonna close the online gun show loophole. We are gonna close the Charleston loophole, and the immunity for gun makers and sellers.
And listen to this. This is what gets me. You know what I just outlined? All of that is supported by 92% of America, and more importantly, 83% of gun owners support that agenda, because they don’t want guns to fall into the wrong hands.”
Clinton was the first presidential candidate to respond to the tragedy in California.
Bustle reports:
Hillary Clinton made a strong statement about how she refuses to accept this as the country's "new normal." She wrote, "We must take action to stop gun violence now."