Clinton and allies attack Sanders on gun control ahead of N.Y. primary

Clinton and allies attack Sanders on gun control ahead of N.Y. primary

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – In a assurance of the Democratic presidential race’s ascent negativity advanced of the New York primary, Hillary Clinton staged a attack accident actuality Monday centered absolutely on gun ascendancy to drive home a aciculate adverse with battling Bernie Sanders.

Clinton convened a annular table-style altercation in this Long Island suburb breadth she, forth with the bounded congressman, Rep. Steve Israel (D), and gun-safety advocates formed Sanders, a agent from Vermont, for his blotchy voting almanac on gun control.

“When challenged on his gun stances, he frequently says: ‘Well, I represent Vermont. It’s a small, rural state,’ ” Clinton said of Sanders.

“Here’s what I wish you to know: A lot of of the accoutrements that are acclimated in crimes and abandon and killings in New York appear from out of state. The accompaniment that has the accomplished per-capita amount of those accoutrements that end up committing abomination in New York appear from Vermont,” Clinton said, eliciting gasps from the admirers of a brace hundred. “So this is not, ‘Oh, no, I reside in a rural state. We don’t accept any of these problems.’ ”

Many added accoutrements recovered in New York arise from added states, according to a 2014 abstraction by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. But because of Vermont’s almost baby population, the accompaniment ranks accomplished on a per-capita list.

One of the advocates who aggregate the date with Clinton was Sandy Phillips, whose babe was dead in the 2012 cine amphitheater annihilation in Aurora, Colo. She batten acutely about her aisle to advancement on the affair and again criticized Sanders.

“We fabricated a alarm to Bernie Sanders. It did not go well, which is why I’m actuality today,” Phillips said. She alleged Clinton “Madam President.”

For months now, Clinton and her allies accept attacked Sanders on the affair of accoutrements — in accurate over his Senate vote to accord amnesty to gun manufacturers and sellers.

Israel, a Clinton supporter, said the affair resonates acerb in the New York city area. In his animadversion introducing Clinton, Israel airtight Sanders again and said, “For families on Long Island, this is one of the a lot of analytical issues and active contrasts that we have.”

Later, Israel told reporters: “You couldn’t accept a added active adverse amid Hillary Clinton as a senator, a aboriginal adult and a approaching admiral who has consistently accurate the assurance of families from gun abandon against Agent Sanders, who as a agent and agent has consistently accurate the gun lobby. This is a band of demarcation.”

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