‘I’m Not Here to Take Away Your Guns‘

Donald Trump justifiably sparked mass outrage with his comments about “Second Amendment” people stopping Hillary Clinton from appointing anti-gun judges — presumably through firearm-related means. While that particular line was new, it followed a statement Trump has been making at rallies for months now: that Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment.

To be clear, this is nonsense. Clinton is not proposing anything of the kind, and her gun control proposals this cycle hardly entail mass confiscation or constitutional amendments. But Clinton’s position on guns, and her way of expressing it, has shifted in interesting ways over the course of her career.

Speaking about America’s gun violence problem after the mass shooting in Orlando, Clinton struck a strident tone: “I believe weapons of war have no place on our streets. We may have our disagreements about gun safety regulations, but we should all be able to agree on a few essential things.”

Hillary Clinton devoted part of her speech at the DNC to guns, telling the Democrat National Convention, “If we’re serious about keeping our country safe, we…can’t afford to have a president who’s in the pocket of the gun lobby“.

“I’m not here to repeal the Second Amendment. I’m not here to take away your guns. I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place,” Clinton said.

She once again called for “common-sense reforms” to “keep guns out of the hands of criminals, terrorists and all other who would do us harm“.

Here is what she DOES want to doe.

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