Hillary Clinton called to reauthorize an assault weapons ban Monday following Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando.
“I think we’ve got to get back to commonsense safety reform, and we can’t fall into the trap that was set up by the gun lobby that says if you can’t stop every shooting and every incident, you should not try to stop any,” Clinton told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “We did have an assault weapons ban for 10 years, and I think it should be reinstated.”
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Clinton also shifted from her past refusal to label terror as radical Islam, telling Cuomo Monday that she felt comfortable using either “radical Islamism” or “radical jihadism” to describe the threat.
“It matters what we do more than what we say,” she said. She proceeded to subtly condemn her general election opponent Donald Trump for his response to the shooting.
“What I won’t do, because I think it is dangerous for our efforts to defeat this threat, is to demonize and demagogue and declare war on an entire religion,” she said. “That plays right into ISIS’ hands.”