Clinton: Trump’s gun policies put kids ‘at risk of violence’

Clinton’s speech comes one day after presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump blasted the former secretary of state for threatening the Second Amendment. Clinton is the “most anti-gun candidate to ever run for office,” Trump told the National Rifle Association in Kentucky on Friday, just after the pro-gun lobby group endorsed him for president.

“This is someone running to be president of the United States of America, a country facing a gun violence epidemic, and he’s talking about more guns in our schools, Clinton said. “He’s talking about more hatred and division in our streets. Even about more nuclear weapons in the world. That’s no way to keep us safe,” she continued. “If you want to imagine what Trump’s America will look like, picture more kids at risk of violence and bigotry. Picture more anger and fear. Ask any other mothers here tonight if they want to live in that kind of America. Enough is enough.”

Clinton delivered the keynote remarks to the Trayvon Martin Foundation on Saturday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. She thanked the parents in attendance for “turning grief into action” and lamented the 33,000 people who die each year due to guns, 3,000 of whom are children and teenagers.

She appealed, in particular, to minority mothers of gun violence victims. Clinton said “something is wrong,” if these parents worry about their children all the time, simply going out and doing everyday things. “There is nothing more important than protecting our children,” she said.

Clinton was introduced by Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton. “She stood for me,” Fulton said, adding that Clinton also “stood for the mothers” of gun violence victims. Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African-American who was fatally shot in 2012 by former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman.

Trump, during remarks to the NRA, even slapped a new nickname on Clinton, “Heartless Hillary,” warning that her policies would leave vulnerable people “in jeopardy” and called again for “gun-free zones.”

In response to Trump’s attacks, Clinton took to social media to say “You’re wrong, @realDonaldTrump. We can uphold Second Amendment rights while preventing senseless gun violence.”

Over the course of her campaign, Clinton has called for “commonsense” reforms, including universal background checks and closing loopholes she believes will keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, violent criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill.

Clinton has not called for repealing the Second Amendment. In fact, on her website, it says “gun ownership is part of the fabric of many law-abiding communities.”

She said Saturday that unlike Trump, she will stand up to the NRA, the “most powerful lobby in Washington.”

“We will not be silenced and we will not be intimidated,” she said.

Trump later took to Twitter to refute Clinton’s remark that he wants more guns in schools.