Clinton makes gun control a key issue, but quick action unlikely

[yallerdawg]

Source: CNN, by Edward Mejia Davis

Hillary Clinton is the first presidential candidate in a generation to make gun control a top-tier campaign issue. But even if she wins on November 8, the ability to implement much of her agenda will be extremely limited.

The Senate would require a 60 vote Democratic majority, and Democrats are not expected to win the majority in the House.

"Americans are fed up with the pace of mass shootings and the deepening violence within our cities," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, told CNN. "I don't think any nation could live through massacres like Sandy Hook, Charleston, San Bernardino, and Orlando and not end up in a different place.

"She didn't just talk about it in the primary -- just to create a point of differentiation with Bernie Sanders," said Murphy. "She talked about it in each of her three debates with Trump -- even when she wasn't asked about it."

"This is the first election in which Republicans are paying a price for their position on guns," said Murphy who filibustered for more than 14 hours over the summer calling for more gun control. "Republicans are certainly being weighed down by Trump. But their internal polls are also being weighed down by their opposition to common sense measures like closing the terror gun loophole."

Read it all at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/politics/clinton-gun-control/index.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. She has indicated she would take additional "executive action" reguarding "gun control". n/t

[yallerdawg]

3. In response to Congressional inaction.

Exactly like President Obama.

[hack89]

5. So tell me what you think she can actually do with an EO?

what do you want her EO's to say?

[hack89]

4. There is little she can actually do

EO's can only effect executive branch administrative regulations and cannot overturn existing law or legal precedence.

[yallerdawg]

8. Start with keeping these executive actions in place!

The President's Actions to Reduce Gun Violence

Keep guns out of the wrong hands through background checks

Make our communities safer from gun violence

Increase mental health treatment and reporting to the background check system

Shape the future of gun safety technology

Watch and read at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/01/04/live-updates-what-president-doing-keep-guns-out-wrong-hands

[hack89]

9. Those are perfectly reasonable things to do

and are good examples of the types of things President Clinton will be able to do.

[JRLeft]

2. Gun control doesn't do shit.

We socioeconomic issues in this country.

[yallerdawg]

6. Not just - final debate:

[Joe941]

7. Clinton will solve the guns problem with executive orders I think.

[JRLeft]

10. Executive orders won't do shit for illegal guns.