Last week, a young boy asked Hillary Clinton about pay equity between men and women and the campaign was accused of planting the question.
This time, another boy in New Hampshire read a question to the candidate, wanting to know what she would do about guns to keep him and his friends “safe.”
Reading from a card, the boy said, “When you become president, what is your plan to connect mental health problems and guns to make sure that me, my brothers, and my friends are safe from violence at school?”
A young man in New Hampshire asked: How are you going to make sure me and my brothers are safe from gun violence at school?
Posted by Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 2, 2016
“I’m going to do everything I can do and I’m not going to stop trying,” she said.
“I think we need to pass some laws that I have been advocating for. We need comprehensive background checks. We need to close the gun show loophole, the online loophole.”
She also proposed creating a new gun rights group to rival the National Rifle Association.
“It is really time for gun owners to for a different organization that will do more on gun safety, do more on gun responsibility and stand up for the safety of our children and our communities.”
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