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Title: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program.

Description: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program. ...

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New poll conks Clinton: It's a matter of trust :: 06/03/2015

A brand new CNN/ORC International poll released earlier today has some bad news for former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, with a “growing number of people” (57 percent) saying she is "not honest and trustworthy," according to CNN.

In an election, 57 percent is considered a landslide. In Clinton’s case, it appears to be an avalanche. She has avoided the press, which probably won’t ask her really tough questions regardless; about the same way they soft-stroked Barack Obama, which even retired CBS correspondent Bob Schieffer seemed to acknowledge the other day, saying the press was “not skeptical enough” when he was merely candidate Obama.

In politics a week can be an eternity, and while these numbers may turn around, the slide Clinton has taken in the polls is cheering gun owners who know her views on gun control. They especially recall her remarks from one year ago that, “I believe that we need a more thoughtful conversation…We cannot let a minority of people—and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people—hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.”

This remark came from a woman who, in April 2008, according to Reason magazine, insisted that, “I respect the Second Amendment. I respect the rights of lawful gun owners to own guns, to use their guns, but I also believe that most lawful gun owners whom I have spoken with for many years across our country also want to be sure that we keep those guns out of the wrong hands.”

According to the CNN poll, which may be read here, 52 percent of the respondents do not believe she cares about people like them, and 50 percent say she does not inspire confidence in them. Still, a majority believes that when the State Department releases her work-related e-mails from her time as Secretary of State, those emails will not show any wrongdoing.

Since her time in the White House in the 1990s, Clinton has shown no great affection for gun owners. In late April, she hired Scott Hogan, described by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as a “former gun safety advocate” who worked as the Minnesota director and campaign manager for anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s $50 million so-called “grassroots” lobbying organization, Everytown for Gun Safety.

But in that crowd, the term “gun safety” is a misnomer, disguising the true nature of the gun control organization. Reinforcing that notion is a Clinton statement from May 2014: “I think again we’re way out of balance. We’ve got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don’t believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.”

Six years earlier, on the campaign trail in 2008, Clinton said she favored “what works in New York.” She did acknowledge that “we have a set of rules in New York City and we have a totally different set of rules in the rest of the state. What might work in New York City is certainly not going to work in Montana.” Second Amendment advocates in and out of the Empire State will argue that it doesn’t work in New York City, and it certainly will not work anywhere else in the country, including Montana.

The Huffington Post reported yesterday that Clinton will officially launch her presidential campaign June 13 in New York, at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park. Perhaps by no small coincidence, those freedoms include the freedom of speech, worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Nothing in there about the freedom to exercise the Second Amendment.

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