Hillary Clinton calls for renewed assault weapons ban: they're a 'weapon of war'

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Source: The Guardian

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 Florida

Ed Pilkington in Orlando
Monday 13 June 2016 14.02 BST

Hillary Clinton has called for the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban in the wake of the worst mass shooting in American history that left 49 people and the gunman dead at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

In forthright comments a day after the massacre at the Pulse Club, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic party issued a call for a return to “commonsense gun safety reform” and lambasted the Republican-controlled Congress for what she called a “totally incomprehensible” refusal to address the country’s lax gun laws.

“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.

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