November and the 2016 presidential election is approaching up rapidly, and with each day, the competition only seems to become fiercer. One can turn on any TV new station, and he or she will only see a barrage of presidential hopefuls competing with each other for airtime. At this moment in time, there are 21 candidates running in the election: six of them are Democrats, and the other fifteen are Republicans. Within this large array of politicians, the two that stand out the most are Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina. This is because they are the sole female hopefuls, and they are running for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively. Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67, announced on April 12, 2015 via Twitter that she is running for the 2016
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School shootings such as the recent ones at Delta State University and Umpqua Community College seem like they are becoming routine events, and this only serves to push the question of gun control further into the spotlight. Still though, Americans are divided on the issue of gun control, and, according to a December 2014 Poll from Pew Research Center, 52% of Americans believe it is more important to uphold the integrity of the second amendment, while the other 48% believe that gun control should be the more immediate concern (“Growing” 1). Moreover, Clinton and Fiorina are both notably outspoken about their stances on the topic of gun control. In the past, other Democrats have often been hesitant to discuss gun control because they feared marginalizing the gun-owner demographic. Clinton has been exceedingly vocal in her demands to strengthen gun laws in the United States (Rucker). After the June 2015 shooting at a Charleston church in South Carolina, Clinton responded by stating that Americans will have to acknowledge the “hard truths” about gun control, and she followed that by asking “how many people [Americans] need to see cut down before [Americans] act?” (“Clinton”). Clinton claims that, as president, she will fight for comprehensive background checks on potential gun-buyers, and she will support legislation that will make “straw purchasing” illegal, which her campaign site defines as when “an individual with a clean record buys a gun with the intention of giving it to a felon.” This is all in an effort to keep guns out of the possession of domestic abusers, criminals, and the severely mentally ill. For the same reason, Clinton also believes that military-style assault weapons need to be kept away from the public. In October of 2015, Clinton took to Twitter to say, “[Americans] must act to stop gun violence, and
School shootings such as the recent ones at Delta State University and Umpqua Community College seem like they are becoming routine events, and this only serves to push the question of gun control further into the spotlight. Still though, Americans are divided on the issue of gun control, and, according to a December 2014 Poll from Pew Research Center, 52% of Americans believe it is more important to uphold the integrity of the second amendment, while the other 48% believe that gun control should be the more immediate concern (“Growing” 1). Moreover, Clinton and Fiorina are both notably outspoken about their stances on the topic of gun control. In the past, other Democrats have often been hesitant to discuss gun control because they feared marginalizing the gun-owner demographic. Clinton has been exceedingly vocal in her demands to strengthen gun laws in the United States (Rucker). After the June 2015 shooting at a Charleston church in South Carolina, Clinton responded by stating that Americans will have to acknowledge the “hard truths” about gun control, and she followed that by asking “how many people [Americans] need to see cut down before [Americans] act?” (“Clinton”). Clinton claims that, as president, she will fight for comprehensive background checks on potential gun-buyers, and she will support legislation that will make “straw purchasing” illegal, which her campaign site defines as when “an individual with a clean record buys a gun with the intention of giving it to a felon.” This is all in an effort to keep guns out of the possession of domestic abusers, criminals, and the severely mentally ill. For the same reason, Clinton also believes that military-style assault weapons need to be kept away from the public. In October of 2015, Clinton took to Twitter to say, “[Americans] must act to stop gun violence, and