Throughout her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has said that she supports the second amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners. Even liberal second amendment experts have called some of Clinton’s explanations of her position “odd”. But in 2015, the Washington Free Beacon reported, Clinton told an audience at a private event that “the supreme court is wrong on the second amendment. A Gallup poll from 2008 found that 73% of Americans believed the second amendment “guarantees the rights of Americans to own guns”. Clinton’s opinion on the second amendment may ultimately be less consequential than gun rights advocates fear, or than liberals might hope.

Source: The Guardian October 26, 2016 14:59 UTC