09-17-2016, 07:22 PM
From Everytown:
Yesterday at a rally in Florida, Donald Trump hinted -- again -- at the possibility of violence against Hillary Clinton:
"I think that [Hillary Clinton's] bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. Immediately...Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay? It'll be very dangerous." [1]
It's shocking and disgusting. It's also the kind of rhetoric that gun extremists have been fueling for decades -- and now the NRA's candidate for president, Donald Trump, is giving these veiled threats of violence a national platform.
America needs a president who cares about reducing gun violence -- not someone who makes comments that are cruel jokes at best, or violent threats at worst. That's why we won't be silent.
Yesterday at a rally in Florida, Donald Trump hinted -- again -- at the possibility of violence against Hillary Clinton:
"I think that [Hillary Clinton's] bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. Immediately...Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay? It'll be very dangerous." [1]
It's shocking and disgusting. It's also the kind of rhetoric that gun extremists have been fueling for decades -- and now the NRA's candidate for president, Donald Trump, is giving these veiled threats of violence a national platform.
America needs a president who cares about reducing gun violence -- not someone who makes comments that are cruel jokes at best, or violent threats at worst. That's why we won't be silent.