MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Clinton issued a fresh plea for stricter gun control Thursday after a mass shooting in Southern California, saying no parent should have to worry about being killed at a holiday party.
Though gun control did not even merit a mention in Clinton's campaign kickoff speech last April, the issue has become a central cause of her presidential bid in recent months after a series of mass shootings.
Promising to go further than President Barack Obama, Clinton has vowed to use executive power to expand background checks for sellers at gun shows and online.
Clinton also backs congressional efforts to stop retailers from selling guns to people with incomplete background checks — as happened before Charleston, South Carolina, shooter Dylann Roof bought his gun — and to ban domestic abusers from purchasing guns.
[...] she's proposed repealing legislation that shields gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers from most liability suits, even in the case of mass shootings.
