HarperLee

CNN, today:

CNN reported Saturday that Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton touted her experience with guns and hunting to a crowd in Indiana:

Hillary Clinton appealed to Second Amendment supporters on Saturday by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers.

"I disagree with Sen. Obama's assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about trade and immigration simply out of frustration," she began, referring to the Obama comments on small-town Americans that set off a political tumult on Friday.

She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

"You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl," she said.

"You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It's part of culture. It's part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it's an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter."

Clinton said she has hunted ducks.
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Yet in her autobiography, Living History, she inferred that she
decided to run for the Senate in New York because of weak federal
gun control laws and the Columbine shootings:

Congress' failure at Littleton response inspired Senate run
A month after the Columbine shootings, Bill & I went to Littleton Colorado to visit with the families of victims & survivors. The Columbine tragedy was not the first, nor the last, episode involving gun violence at an American high school. But it ignited a call for more federal action to keep guns out of the hands of the violent, troubled and young--a lethal combination. Bill and I announced a proposal to raise the legal age of handgun ownership to 21, and limit purchases of handguns to one per month.
Source: Living History, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, p. 503-4 Nov 1, 2003


More of Hillary Clinton in her own words on gun control:

Hillary Clinton on Gun Control

And her voting record on gun control, also from On the Issues:

Against illegal guns, crack down on illegal gun dealers. (Jan 2008)
Backed off a national licensing registration plan on guns. (Jan 2008)
Get assault weapons & guns off the street. (Jul 2007)
Background check system could prevent Virginia Tech massacre. (Apr 2007)
FactCheck: VA Tech shooter not declared a danger to others. (Apr 2007)
Congress' failure at Littleton response inspired Senate run. (Nov 2003)
Keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them. (Sep 2000)
Limit access to weapons; look for early warning signs. (Sep 2000)
License and register all handgun sales. (Jun 2000)
Tough gun control keeps guns out of wrong hands. (Jul 1999)
Gun control protects our children. (Jul 1999)
Don’t water down sensible gun control legislation. (Jul 1999)
Lock up guns; store ammo separately. (Jun 1999)
Ban kids’ unsupervised access to guns. (Jun 1999)
Get weapons off the streets; zero tolerance for weapons. (Sep 1996)
Voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jul 2005)
Voted NO on banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers for gun violence. (Mar 2004)
Prevent unauthorized firearm use with "smart gun" technology. (Aug 2000

Hillary Clinton on the Issues

HarperLee

From Houston Chronicle, March 26, 2008:

Democrats Obama, Clinton tred softly on gun control
Silence on the issue has become the party's pattern

By DAVID LIGHTMAN
Mcclatchy-tribune

Democrats have been skittish about gun control since 1994. Their support for a strong anti-crime bill that summer, which included a ban on 19 types of assault weapons, was later seen by many party strategists as one reason that the party that year lost control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years.
Six years later, after Vice President Al Gore lost states with large numbers of gun-rights advocates, many Democrats again saw gun control as a key reason he lost the presidential election.

But they won't find anything from Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York or Barack Obama of Illinois. They didn't sign the rival brief from other members of Congress who back the tough handgun restrictions.

The Democratic presidential candidates' silence is part of a pattern. For years, the national party has downplayed its historic sympathy for gun control for fear that emphasizing it would be politically costly.

Democratic politicians are "nervous about the gun issue, so they stay away from it," said Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Gun-rights advocates described the Democrats' dilemma in starker terms.

"The fact is that politicians have discovered there are 80 million law-abiding gun owners, and they're mad as all get out at politicians who want to take their guns away," said John Snyder, a spokesman for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
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