In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton refused to say that the right to bear arms is a constitutional right. The leading Democratic candidate used the question to push for gun control.
ABC host Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you believe that their conclusion that an individual’s right to bear arms is a constitutional right?”
“If it is a constitutional right, then it like every other constitutional right is subject to reasonable regulations,” Clinton said, dodging the question. “And what people have done with that decision is to take it as far as they possibly can and reject what has been our history from the very beginning of the republic where some of the earliest laws were about firearms. So I think it’s important to recognize that reasonable people can say as I do responsible gun owners have a right, I have no objection to that, but the rest of the American public has a right to require certain kinds of regulatory, responsible actions to protect everyone else.”
