It"s the anarchists who see a big conspiracy to disarm them.
Notwithstanding that criminals are the self-defined anarchists....there is a conspiracy to disarm the citizen. Will they be successful? Not likely.
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Mr. President, what is going on in this country? Does going to school mean exposure to handguns and to death? As you
know, my position is we should ban all handguns, get rid of them, no manufacture, no sale, no importation, no
transportation, no possession of a handgun . There are 66 million handguns in the United States of America today, with 2
million being added every year.
--- Senator John H. Chafee, Rhode Island (June 11, 1992, The Congressional Record, 102nd Congress, 1991-1992)
Mr. speaker, we must take swift and strong action if we are to rescue the next generation from the rising of tide armed
violence. That is why today I am introducing the Handgun Control Act of 1992. This legislation would outlaw the
possession, importation, transfer or manufacture of a handgun except for use by public agencies, individuals who can
demonstrate to their local police chief that they need a gun because of threat to their life or the life of a family member,
licensed guard services, licensed pistol clubs which keep the weapons securely on premises, licensed manufacturers and
licensed gun dealers.
--- Rep. Stephen J. Solarz, New York (August 12, 1992, The Congressional Record, 102nd Congress, 1991-1992,
Daily Edition E2492-2493.)
Twenty years ago, I asked Richard Nixon what he thought of gun control. His on-the-record reply: 'Guns are an
abomination.' Free from fear of gun owners' retaliation at the polls, he favored making handguns illegal and requiring
licenses for hunting rifles.
--- William Safire (originally from a New York Times column), Los Angeles Daily News, June 15, 1999, P. 15.
The only way to discourage the gun culture is to remove the guns from the hands and shoulders of people who are not in
the law enforcement business.
--- New York Times, September 24, 1975
There is no reason for anyone in this country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to
have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to
do that is to change the Constitution.
--- Michael Gartner, former NBC News President, USA Today, January 16, 1992
The goal is an ultimate ban on all guns, but we also have to take step at a time and go for limited access first.
--- Joyner Sims, Florida State Health Dept., Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Tribune, November 7, 1993
Gun violence won't be cured by one set of laws. It will require years of partial measures that will gradually tighten the
requirements for gun ownership, and incrementally change expectations about the firepower that should be available to
ordinary citizens.
--- New York Times, December 21, 1993
We are inclined to think that every firearm in the hands of anyone who is not a law enforcement officer constitutes an
incitement to violence. Let's come to our senses before the whole country starts shooting itself up on all its Main Streets in
a delirious kind of High Noon.
--- Washington Post, August 19, 1965
By a curiosity of evolution, every human skull harbors a prehistoric vestige: a reptilian brain. This atavism, like a hand
grenade cushioned in the more civilized surrounding cortex, is the dark hive where many of mankind's primitive impulses
originate. To go partners with that throwback, Americans have carried out of their own history another curiosity that
evolution forgot to discard as the country changed from a sparsely populated, underpoliced agrarian society to a modern
industrial civilization. That vestige is the gun -- most notoriously the handgun, an anachronistic tool still much in use.
--- Time, April 13, 1981
We are beyond the stage of restrictive licensing and uniform laws. We are at the point in time and terror when nothing
short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously
present. Let us take the guns away from the people. Exemptions should be limited to the military, the police and those
licensed for good and sufficient reasons.
--- Patrick V. Murphy, New York City Police Commissioner, December 7, 1970
As you probably know by now, Time's editors, in the April 13 issue, took a strong position in support of an outright ban
on handguns for private use.
--- Time Magazine, Letter to NRA, April 24, 1981
If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand guns...
--- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley Federal Gun Legislation Press Conference in Washington, D.C., November 13,
1998.
The League, therefore, supports a ban on the further manufacture, sale, transportation and importation for private
ownership of handguns and their parts.
--- League of Women Voters of Illinois Gun Control Position-in-Brief.
No presidential candidate has yet come out for the most effective proposal to check the terror of gunfire: a ban on the
general sale, manufacture and ownership of handguns as well as assault-style weapons.
--- Guns Along the Campaign Trail, Washington Post, Monday, July 19, 1999, Page A18.
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"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe."
--U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein Associated Press 11/18/93
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out right ban,
picking up every one of them... "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,
"I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."
--U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," 2/5/95
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