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'This is not hyperbole': Rick Perry says Hillary Clinton jeopardizes gun rights [View all]
Source: The Guardian
'This is not hyperbole': Rick Perry says Hillary Clinton jeopardizes gun rights
Ex-Texas governor says future of gun rights hangs ‘in the balance’
and Clinton presidency could mean overturning pro-firearms supreme
court ruling
Lois Beckett in Louisville, Kentucky
Sunday 22 May 2016 20.04 BST
The 2016 presidential campaign has put Americans’ gun rights “in the balance”, according to the former Texas governor Rick Perry.
“I don’t think this is overblown rhetoric,” Perry said in an interview outside the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky. “You know, in campaigns you do have some hyperbole. This is not hyperbole.”
If Hillary Clinton is elected, Perry said, she will nominate a supreme court justice willing to overturn the court’s landmark 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v Heller, from 2008. In that case, the court ruled that Americans have an individual right to own firearms in the home for self-defense.
On Friday, Maya Harris, an adviser to Clinton, said the candidate believed the Heller decision was “wrongly decided”, as it undermined the ability of cities and states “to craft commonsense laws to keep their residents safe”.
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Ex-Texas governor says future of gun rights hangs ‘in the balance’
and Clinton presidency could mean overturning pro-firearms supreme
court ruling
Lois Beckett in Louisville, Kentucky
Sunday 22 May 2016 20.04 BST
The 2016 presidential campaign has put Americans’ gun rights “in the balance”, according to the former Texas governor Rick Perry.
“I don’t think this is overblown rhetoric,” Perry said in an interview outside the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky. “You know, in campaigns you do have some hyperbole. This is not hyperbole.”
If Hillary Clinton is elected, Perry said, she will nominate a supreme court justice willing to overturn the court’s landmark 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v Heller, from 2008. In that case, the court ruled that Americans have an individual right to own firearms in the home for self-defense.
On Friday, Maya Harris, an adviser to Clinton, said the candidate believed the Heller decision was “wrongly decided”, as it undermined the ability of cities and states “to craft commonsense laws to keep their residents safe”.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/nra-rick-perry-gun-rights-hillary-clinton
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