Hillary Clinton: From Tuzla To Guns

Hillary Clinton’s parade of serial exaggerations/lies continued today. In her desperate attempt to appeal to gun owners in Pennsylvania and Indiana, she was out touting her "experience" with guns:

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 me 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.”

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Noting that many hunters and gun collectors want to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, Clinton referred to her positive childhood experiences with firearms.

"As I told you, my dad taught me how to shoot behind our cottage,” she said. “I have gone hunting. I am not a hunter. But I have gone hunting."

Clinton said she has hunted ducks.

As in the case of her Bosnia fable, she has taken her "experience" with guns as a child and stretched it into "experience" to pander for votes.

Perhaps the gun owners who Hillary Clinton is pandering to should watch the video from the MSNBC Democratic presidential debate from April 26th of last year. It makes for a revealing moment. Brian Williams asked for a show of hands with the following question (at 11:10 into the video) : "How many of you in your adult lifetime have had a gun in your house?". Three candidates did not raise their hands. Amongst them was Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton, not a gun owner, but a gun panderer. It is sad to see Hillary Clinton grasping for straws, but at this point, her campaign is left with little else.

 UPDATE (from the comment by ptw): Hillary Clinton back in 1999 pandering to New York voters who are for gun control:

Stepping up the Clinton Administration’s campaign against gun violence, Hillary Rodham Clinton used an emotional White House ceremony today to call on Americans to press Congress to ”buck the gun lobby” and pass several gun control measures.

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The Senate is to begin debate next week on a number of gun control measures, some of which mirror proposals offered recently by President Clinton. ”The senators need to hear from all of us,” Mrs. Clinton said. She urged voters ”to give them the encouragement to do what they know is right and to remind them that there are many, many millions of American voters and citizens who will stand behind political leaders who are brave enough to buck the gun lobby, wherever that may take us, so that they will vote for the measures that we know will save lives.”

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Mrs. Clinton was as careful as her husband has been to say that there are many causes of violence and that parents need to take responsibility for their children’s behavior. But Mrs. Clinton, who is considering running for the Senate from New York, where gun control is popular, has also been more forceful than the President in directly taking on the powerful gun lobby in the aftermath of the Littleton killings.