Clinton should apologize to victims of Iraq war: Sanders

US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has censured front-runner Hillary Clinton for her support of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

According to Press TV, the former secretary of state on Wednesday called on the Vermont senator to apologize to Sandy Hook victims because of his stance against holding gun manufacturers accountable for gun crimes.

In response, Sanders said that Clinton should apologize to the victims of the Iraq war, which she voted in favor of as a senator.

Sanders said in an interview last week that he doesn't believe that victims of gun violence should be able to sue the company that made the gun the shooter used to kill twenty children and six adults on December 14, 2012 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

"In the same sense that if you're a gun dealer and you sell me a gun and I go out and I kill him," Sanders said. "Do I think that that gun dealer should be sued for selling me a legal product that he misused?"

"But I do believe that gun manufacturers and gun dealers should be able to be sued when they should know that guns are going into the hands of wrong people,” he added.

Sanders, whose campaign was boosted by landslide victories in Alaska, Washington, Hawaii and Wisconsin, is hoping to cut further into Clinton’s lead in her home state of New York, where voters will cast their ballots on April 19.

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