Clinton: Racial healing can begin with increased gun control

Published September 27, 2016 2:01am ET



Hillary Clinton said Monday that increased gun control measures could go a long way toward healing race relations.

“[W]e’ve got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them,” the Democratic nominee said during the first presidential debate hosted by Hofstra University in New York. “The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together.”

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