Hillary Clinton: We Must Figure Out How to ‘Balance’ the Second Amendment With ‘Preventive Measures’

By Fred Lucas

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed to enact gun laws to “balance Second Amendment rights with preventive measures and control measures,” hours after two TV journalists were fatally shot live on the air in Virginia.

“I am so stricken to think that these two young people doing the work that you guys do every single day would be murdered on live television,” Clinton told reporters during a campaign stop in Ankeny, Iowa, on Wednesday.

“We have got to do something about gun violence in America. I will take it on. There are many people who face it and know it but then turn away because it’s hard,” Clinton said. “It’s a very political, difficult issue in America. But I believe we are smart enough, we are compassionate enough, to figure out how to balance the legitimate Second Amendment rights with preventive measures and control measures so that whatever motivated this murderer who eventually took his own life, we will not see more deaths, needless, senseless deaths.”

Reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward were gunned down …read more

Source:: The Blaze