Guns, Terrorism and the Presidential Candidates

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 13, 2016

Jamelle Bouie, chief political correspondent for Slate, discusses how Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are addressing the issues of gun control and home-grown terrorism in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting.

Also. This is an extraordinarily irresponsible thing for a POTUS candidate to spread in the heat of a crisis. https://t.co/liB1fpHVNq
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) June 12, 2016

Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are 2nd in this country only to race, says @TheAtlantic's @emmaogreen via FBI crime statistics.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 13, 2016

And the massacre in Orlando stands at the bloody intersection of both. https://t.co/2JFA0eCaPb
— Lisa B. Thompson (@playprof) June 13, 2016

Never thought I'd respect anything Mitt Romney said, @BrianLehrer. But he got me by decrying Trump's Trickle Down Racism and Misogyny. .
— Philip Hoffman (@1philiphoffman) June 13, 2016

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