Guns.com: No Gun Issues for Final Presidential Debate
But I bet Hillary will still throw gun owners under the bus…
Via Guns.com:
Fox News’s Chris Wallace released his topics for the third and final presidential debate scheduled Wednesday and gun issues didn’t make the cut.
Wallace said he will question candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton about immigration, debt and entitlements, the economy, fitness to be president, foreign “hot spots,” and the Supreme Court — the latter of which led to a brief discussion about the Second Amendment in Sunday’s debate.
“If people say, ‘it was a great debate and I don’t remember you being there,’ I will have done my job,” Wallace told Fox News on Wednesday.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, however, wants Wallace to press candidates specifically about expanding background checks to private gun sales — a popular crowd-sourced question debate moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz didn’t pose to the candidates Sunday.
Combined, the questions “how would you protect the Second Amendment” and “do you support expanded background checks” earned more than 296,000 online votes at the Open Debate Coalition. The third most popular question, regarding social security benefits, was not asked at the debate, either.
Still, Trump and Clinton managed to slip their individual stances on gun control into answers about their respective priorities for nominating Supreme Court justices during Sunday’s debate, even if the moderators hadn’t asked.
While Trump vowed to select candidates who “respect the Constitution” and “the Second Amendment and understand what it means,” Clinton reiterated her support for expanded background checks and closing “loopholes” in online and gun show sales.
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