--- ---  # Hillary Clinton: 'Of Course' Republicans and NRA Are Complicit in Gun Violence by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 3, 2017 12:59 AM UTC  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins SiriusXM for a town hall event hosted by Zerlina Maxwell at SiriusXM Studios on Sept. 25, 2017 in New York City. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins SiriusXM for a town hall event hosted by Zerlina Maxwell at SiriusXM Studios on Sept. 25, 2017 in New York City.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) Las Vegas Shooting: Hillary Clinton Faults NRA and GOP ```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"}}]}] ```