Hillary Clinton will continue President Obama’s anti-Second Amendment crusade — and seems to think she can get law-abiding gun owners to help her.

Speaking at a rally in Hartford, Connecticut Thursday, Clinton vowed to end America’s “gun culture” if elected. “We can do this consistent with the Second Amendment,” Clinton claimed.

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“We can do this with the support of responsible gun voters,” she continued. “And that is exactly what we will do.” How exactly Clinton thinks restrictions placed on a freedom guaranteed by the Second Amendment can be consistent with the Second Amendment, she did not say.

Neither did she explain how she was going to get “responsible gun voters” to willingly assist in the restriction of their own rights. What was clear at Clinton’s Connecticut rally, however, was that putting restrictions on Americans’ Second Amendment rights will be a central focus of a Clinton presidency.

In 2012 Connecticut was rocked by the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, a fact which Clinton exploited to full effect. The rally — her first public campaign stop in Connecticut this year — included two people who had lost family members in the Newtown shooting.

“What we need to focus on is the everyday gun violence that plagues our cities and plagues our towns,” said Erica Smegielski, daughter of Sandy Hook principal and shooting victim Dawn Hochsprung. “We need to find a way to stop that.”

Smegielski is becoming a persistent presence on the Clinton campaign trail. She was even featured in a Clinton campaign ad released Tuesday.

“No more families should have to go through what we have,” Smegielski states in the ad. “Hillary Clinton is the only candidate that has what it takes to take on the gun lobby.” Smegielski also joined Clinton at another rally the same day the ad was released.

Smegielski has “never been involved in politics before, but she has made it her mission to advocate for common-sense gun safety reform,” Clinton said Tuesday night.

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Unfortunately, Clinton’s “common-sense gun safety reform” will likely include a slew of constitutionally dubious executive actions.

“We need you to be able to use your executive powers to legislate that you can’t carry guns in cars, you can’t bring cars in buildings that are not assured to carry them,” an audience member told Clinton in Hartford on Thursday. “We need executive powers to say we will fight for life and not kowtow to” the NRA, he continued.

“Whoa, let the congregation say ‘Amen,'” Clinton responded.