Hillary Clinton has declared gun culture in the US is "way out of balance" and the country needs to rein in the notion that "anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime".  The former secretary of state and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said the idea that anyone could have a gun was not in the "best interest of the vast majority of people", while arguing that view did not conflict with the rights of people to own firearms.  Clinton was speaking at the National Council for Behavioural Health conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, pointing to recent shootings that involved teens who had been playing loud music and chewing gum, and a separate incident involving the typing of text messages in a movie theatre.  "I think again we're way out of balance. I think that we've got to rein in what has become an almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime," Clinton said. "And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people. And I think you can say that and still support the right of people to own guns."  The Democrat-controlled Senate voted against legislation pushed by President Barack Obama in 2013 that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases to gun shows and online sales. The legislation came in the aftermath of the deadly Sandy Hook elementary school shootings in Connecticut.  If Clinton runs for president her views on gun control would clash with those of Republicans, who have largely opposed efforts to tighten laws. During a recent conference of the National Rifle Association in Indianapolis, the Republican governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, a potential 2016 candidate, said Clinton and the vice-president, Joe Biden, considered the second amendment to be little more than "a phrase from a speech writer".  Clinton told attendees at the mental health conference that "at the rate we're going, we're going to have so many people with guns everywhere, fully licensed, fully validated" in settings like movie theatres where shootings had arisen over seemingly mundane things like loud gum chewing or cellphone use.  "That's what happens in the countries I've visited where there is no rule of law and no self-control and that is something that we cannot just let go without paying attention," she said.  During a question-and-answer session Clinton was asked about the 1993 suicide of Clinton White House lawyer Vince Foster. Referring to him as "our friend in the White House", she said he had been depressed and "filled with anxieties". Like other men she had known who killed themselves, Clinton said "they did not want to be seen as weak, they didn't want to admit their problems".  Her appearance coincided with the release by Vanity Fair magazine of excerpts from an article by Monica Lewinsky, who as a White House intern had an affair with Clinton's husband when he was president. The subject of Bill Clinton's affair with Lewinsky did not arise during Hillary Clinton's appearance at the mental health summit or at an early childhood education event later on Tuesday at the Inter-American Development Bank.  Clinton said she was still considering her political future, telling the Maryland audience she is someone "who has to really mull things over".  "So stay tuned," Clinton said. "When I know, you'll know."
Situation 'way out of balance' when people are shot over gum chewing or text messaging, says possible presidential candidate