--- title: Las Vegas Shooting: Hillary Clinton Faults NRA and GOP description: Hillary Clinton criticized the GOP and National Rifle Association for stopping gun control policies, speaking after the Las Vegas shooting canonical: https://time.com/4966501/hillary-clinton-gun-violence-nra-republicans/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-03T00:59:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:42:06.947Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton: 'Of Course' Republicans and NRA Are Complicit in Gun Violence og:description: "More guns in the wrong hands lead to terrible incidents" og:url: https://time.com/4966501/hillary-clinton-gun-violence-nra-republicans/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a97217288d3b0d/6988e03fab6d77558a6b009b/hillary-clinton-nra-gun-violence-las-vegas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton Joins SiriusXM For A Town Hall Event Hosted By Zerlina Maxwell og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton: 'Of Course' Republicans and NRA Are Complicit in Gun Violence twitter:description: "More guns in the wrong hands lead to terrible incidents" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a97217288d3b0d/6988e03fab6d77558a6b009b/hillary-clinton-nra-gun-violence-las-vegas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton: 'Of Course' Republicans and NRA Are Complicit in Gun Violence > Sponsored content. 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Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 3, 2017 12:59 AM UTC Hillary Clinton on Monday criticized Republicans and the National Rifle Association for stopping [gun control policies](http://time.com/4965056/las-vegas-shooting-gun-silencer-bill/), speaking out after a [gunman killed 59 people](http://time.com/4964666/madalay-bay-las-vegas-shooting/?xid=homepage) at a music festival in Las Vegas. When asked in an interview with the Center for American Progress’ Thinking CAP podcast whether Republicans and the NRA are complicit in an epidemic of gun violence, Clinton said “of course they are.” “This is nothing but pure, unadulterated greed motivated by people who want to sell as many guns as they can, to engage in a falsity of fear and rhetoric about why everybody has to have guns,” she said, according to an excerpt. The full podcast episode will be released Thursday. “You know, the evidence is just so clear that more guns do not keep you safer and more guns in the wrong hands lead to terrible incidents,” she said. Clinton criticized the Trump administration, for example, for [repealing an Obama-era regulation](http://www.newsweek.com/trump-set-overturn-guns-mental-health-regulation-557237) that stopped certain people with a background of mental illness from obtaining firearms. “We see the horrors of Las Vegas,” she said. “It happens every day.” > [](https://twitter.com/ThinkingCAPpod/status/914951043313741826) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4966501/hillary-clinton-gun-violence-nra-republicans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4966501/hillary-clinton-gun-violence-nra-republicans/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton: 'Of Course' Republicans and NRA Are Complicit in Gun Violence","datePublished":"2017-10-03T00:59:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:42:06.947Z","description":"\"More guns in the wrong hands lead to terrible incidents\"","url":"https://time.com/4966501/hillary-clinton-gun-violence-nra-republicans/","keywords":["hillary clinton","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a97217288d3b0d/6988e03fab6d77558a6b009b/hillary-clinton-nra-gun-violence-las-vegas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21a97217288d3b0d/6988e03fab6d77558a6b009b/hillary-clinton-nra-gun-violence-las-vegas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton Joins SiriusXM For A Town Hall Event Hosted By Zerlina Maxwell","caption":"Hillary Clinton Joins SiriusXM For A Town Hall Event Hosted By Zerlina Maxwell","creditText":"Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/hillary-clinton-2/","name":"hillary clinton"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4966501/hillary-clinton-gun-violence-nra-republicans/","name":"Hillary Clinton: 'Of Course' Republicans and NRA Are Complicit in Gun Violence"}}]}] ```