'Heartless Hillary' Guns for Trump, NRA in Fort Lauderdale

As billed, likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took aim at the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump Saturday, telling a Fort Lauderdale audience that Trump's cavalier attitude toward guns will only turn a violent America into a chaotic and deadlier one. 

"This is someone running to be president of the United States of America -- a country facing a gun violence epidemic -- and he's talking about more guns in our schools, he's talking about more hatred and division in our streets," said Clinton. "That's no way to keep us safe."

 

Clinton was appearing at a convention on gun violence organized by Sybrina Fulton's Trayvon Martin Foundation. Fulton is the mother of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old who was shot and killed in Florida in 2012 by neighborhood watcher George Zimmerman. Fulton has been campaigning with Clinton for several months. 

Clinton's criticism of Trump came the day after he renamed her "Heartless Hillary" for backing restrictions on gun ownership in a speech before the NRA convention in Louisville, Ky. The NRA gave Trump its recommendation.

"If you want to imagine what Trump's America will look like, picture more kids at risk of violence and bigotry, picture more anger and fear," she said. She said again  she wouldn't stop fighting the NRA. "... We will not be silenced and we will not be intimidated," she said.

Clinton has acknowledged the importance of Florida in November and vowed to give Trump a fight to win it. "We're going to take the Sunshine State vote by vote," she told CNN earlier this year. "I plan to be there a lot."