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Title: Clinton Won't Disavow Gun Tax Proposal
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URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hi ... 06052016&s=al&dkt_nbr=fclwyn1b
Published: Jun 5, 2016
Author: Cathy Burke
Post Date: 2016-06-05 16:02:17 by BTP Holdings
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Clinton Won't Disavow Gun Tax Proposal Image: Clinton Won't Disavow Gun Tax Proposal By Cathy Burke | Sunday, 05 Jun 2016 11:17 AM Hillary Clinton on Sunday defended the idea of a gun tax, but stopped short of endorsing a proposal she first embraced in 1993. In an interview with ABC News' "This Week," the Democratic presidential front-runner, who has refuted GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump's claim that she wants to abolish the Second Amendment, declared she believes the right to bear arms is protected by the Constitution. "I have no objection to that, but the rest of the American public has a right to require certain kinds of regulatory responsible actions to protect everyone else," she said. Noting that in 1993, she supported a gun tax during testimony before a Senate Finance Committee, host George Stephanopoulos pressed Clinton on whether she still felt the same way. "I'm not going to commit to any specific proposal," she deferred. "That was in the context of health care. When you have mass shootings, you not only have the terrible deaths, you have people who are injured." Clinton said the issue came up during a weekend meeting with survivors of the December 2015 terrorist massacre in San Bernardino, Calif. "What they talked to me about was, where do they get the financial support to deal with both the physical and the emotional trauma?" she said. "There are real costs that people incur because of the terrible gun violence epidemic. And we have to deal with it. And I'm going to be looking for ways to deal with it." "I'm not committed to anything other than what I've said in this campaign," she added, "but I do want people to ask themselves, can't we do better than to have 33,000 people killed every year by guns and many thousands more injured? And I think we can." Breaking News at http://Newsmax.com www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hil l ary- clinton-gun-tax-second-amendment/2016/06/05/id/732372/#ixzz4AkDhCAFH Poster Comment: Chicago has gun registration and shootings are sky high. Black on black and either gang or drug related. If a crook wants a gun, he gets one. The next thing she might utter is that old gun control canard, "If it only saves one life."
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Remember that one of the causes of the American Revolution was a tax on tea, which amounted to about a penny. This precipitated the Boston Tea Party. (It is where my screen name comes from.) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Crooked Hillary wants more than one penny, she wants one pound of flesh from each gun owner.
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