Gun victims, families make passionate case for Clinton

“Come November, vote for her”, Daniels concluded.

On her website, Clinton listed a number of “common-sense approaches” she would take to ensure enforced gun restrictions if elected, which include “making it a federal crime for someone to intentionally buy a gun for a person prohibited from owning one, and closing the loopholes that allow people suffering from severe mental illness to purchase and own guns”. “Hearing each other. Trying, as best we can, to walk in each other’s shoes”. But advocates for gun control say the political landscape has changed dramatically since the 1990s, when then-President Bill Clinton blamed heavy losses in the 1994 mid-term elections in part to a public backlash against the ban on certain military-style weapons.

She offered assurances that under her administration, we would all rise together.

“For decades people have said this issue was too hard to solve and the politics too hot to touch”, Clinton continued.

With regard to the Constitution itself, she is aware that it can be amended.

Daphne Handford, a Philadelphia local, attended the rally in Logan Square and said that gun rights is the make-or-break issue of 2016 for her. That ruling found that freedom of speech applies at least to some degree to corporations and unions.

“Now, folks, I know the NRA”, Kaine said.

“I’ve seen great courage when my life was on the line”, she said in her brief remarks. He reached for his wife’s hand as she stepped onto the stage and stood by her through her speech to the largest audience she’s spoken to since the shooting.

“Gabby’s speech was unbelievable, and she’s just an wonderful person”.

And if we’re serious about keeping our country safe, we also can’t afford to have a President who’s in the pocket of the gun lobby.

Just as the Democrats are now confident fully promoting gun control, the Republicans remain fierce defenders of the Second Amendment. I’m not here to take away your guns.

“I was a little scared at first”. Because our government has failed to keep us safe. “I never gave up, and to you who have lost relatives, don’t give up”.

You heard, you saw, family members of people killed by gun violence.

Daniels then shared his family’s history including how some members are now in jail or, in the case of his father, a former Philadelphia cop, dead after being killed while on duty when he was 15-years-old. “If you believe that every man, woman and child in America has the right to affordable healthcare, then join us”.

Christine Leinonen told the crowd at the convention that her son – Christopher “Drew” Leinonen – always brought people together and started a gay-straight alliance in school. That ban expired after 10 years and has not been renewed.

“I’m a one issue voter and that issue is gun violence”, Hanford told ABC.

Indeed, Americans increasingly favor tougher gun laws by margins that have grown after the spate of recent mass shootings, according to a recent Associated Press-GfK poll.