Posted on 12/20/2001 7:08:10 AM PST by Jean S
The left is starting to discern the slippery-slope. It's not his copy of the Qur'an he's worried about having registered. There's something in his closet, and he's worried his is next...
Where has this guy been? Can't he see the coming refrain "well, nobody's privacy has been invaded in Kalifornia, so what have YOU got to hide?"
"We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!"
U.S. Representative Charles Schumer, Democrat from New York, quoted on NBC, December 8, 1993
"We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true..."
U.S. Representative Charles Schumer, quoted on NBC, November 30, 1993
"There may be other things that will happen later... It may not be the end... the bottom line is what we are seeking now is the Brady Bill."
U.S. Representative Charles Schumer, interviewed on CNN Crossfire.
"Gun traffickers have found a new avenue for dealing guns to criminals, to the mentally ill, and the under-aged — the Internet. The firepower available on the Internet is chilling. Machine guns, assault weapons and cheaply made pistols are available in cyberspace for the taking. And they are available to those who could never buy a gun under the Brady law."
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, March 16, 1999. Class III applications are easier to get approved than Brady paperwork?
"There is no individual right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights."
USA Today - Richard Benedetto, "Gun Rights Are A Myth", December 28, 1994.
"Law-abiding Americans have no unconditional right to firearms access."
New York Post - "Time For Gun Control" - August 12, 1999
"The debate over gun control offers a revealing case study of the misuse of the Constitution...The idea that the Bill of Rights guarantees each individual a right to own a gun...is a constitutional illusion."
The San Francisco Barrister - Dennis Henigan, "The Right To Be Armed: A Constitutional Illusion" - December, 1989.
"The sale, manufacture, and possession of handguns ought to be banned...We do not believe the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual the right to keep them."
The Washington Post - "Legal Guns Kill Too" - November 5, 1999.
"There is no Constitutional guarantee for private ownership of firearms."
Austin American Statesman - "A History of the Second Amendment" - April 3, 2000.
"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun."
Usa Today - Michael Gartner - Former president of NBC News - "Glut of Guns: What Can We Do About Them?" - January 16, 1992.
"The Second Amendment...protects only the right to "bear arms" for the purpose of service in the "militia," and..not..firearm ownership unrelated to militia service."
United States v. Timothy Joe Emerson(5th Cir.1999)(No.99-10331) - Brief for an Ad Hoc Group of 52 Law Professors and Historians as Amici Curiae at 3.
"The individual's right to bear arms applies only to the preservation or efficiency of a 'well regulated militia.' Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected."
ACLU - Policy statement #47, 1996.
Bush knows - or, if he isn't bright enough, he has advisers who are - that he won in 2000 only with the support of 100% of the Red Nation counties that voted for him. And he knows that if he alienates any one county in Red Nation - where guns are loved - he can forget reelection, because enough of us will either just not vote for president at all in 2004, or will vote Buchanan. And every GOP congresscritter who will be running for reelection also knows it.
Bush knows that we did in Bush Daddy in 1992 this way - by just either not voting for president at all, or voting for Perot due to Bush Daddy's constant dissing of gun owners and other social conservatives. If he doesn't know that social conservatives won't support a GOP that doesn't support us, Bush Daddy can tell him.
Scandals of antigun politicians - from Kalifornia to New York City!
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright 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.""Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe."
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, quoted by the Associated Press, November 18, 1993
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, December 1993
"Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose."
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
"Gun registration is not enough."
U.S.Attorney General Janet Reno on "Good morning America," December 10, 1993
This guy shows he is only half smart!
HOW GUN CONTROL "WORKED" IN JAMAICA
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