In Their Own Words It’s high time to gun down the 2nd Amendment.
— title of September 17, 1999 anti-gun essay
by USA Today columnist Walter Shapiro
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.
— Washington Post editorial, August 19, 1965
We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is
necessarily ... going to be very modest.... Our ultimate goal — total
control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time....
The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns
being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to
get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the pos-
session of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for
the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting
clubs, and licensed gun collectors — totally illegal.
— Nelson T. Shields, as quoted in The New Yorker, July 26, 1976.
Mr. Shields preceded Sarah Brady as chairman
of Handgun Control, Inc.
I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or
possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and
licensed target clubs).... It is time to act. We cannot go on like this.
Ban them!
— Senator John H. Chafee (R-R1)
Washington Post op-ed, June 9, 1992
...if we get the Brady Bill to President Clinton and he signs it into law,
then the door will be wide open for further gun control legislation....
[A]s you know, our campaign to enact a National Gun Policy to com-
bat gun violence doesn’t end with the Brady Bill — it just begins.
— Sarah Brady, Chair of Handgun Control, Inc., undated 1993
fund-raising letter to HCI members (emphasis in original)
The goal is an ultimate ban on all guns, but we also have to take a
step at a time and go for limited access first. Lawmakers are scared
of this issue. If we create anger and outrage on a national level, it
would really help the local folks.
— Joyner Sims, deputy commissioner in charge of injury control for
the Florida State Health Department, quoted by the Chicago Tribune,
October 31, 1993
...we must severely constrict if not virtually end the private posses-
sion of guns
This country does not need one more gun in circulation; in fact, it
needs about 200 million less.
— Los Angeles Times editorial, November 8. 1993
Our goal is to not allow anybody to buy a handgun.... The stated goal
of the most active supporters of restrictions, aside from the “moder-
ate” goals they often espouse in the heat of legislative battle, is to
abolish gun ownership totally.
— Michael
K. Beard, President, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence,
quoted by the Washington Times, December 9, 1993
I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, ex-
cept for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we’re prepared
director of the Violence Policy Center, op-ed, "Laws That Can’t
Stop a Bullet,” New York Times, November 4, 1999
I don’t care if you want to hunt, I don’t care if you think it’s your
right. I say, “Sorry. It is 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You
are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you
should go to prison.
— Rosie O’Donnell, April 21, 1999
I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban
assault weapons like the weapons used here.... These semiautomatic
handguns ... they really have no place in our society,
— Vice President Al Gore, September 16, 1999 on Larry King Live
States should work toward the introduction of appropriate national
legislation, administrative regulations and licensing requirements that
define conditions under which firearms can be acquired, used and
traded by private persons. In particular, they should consider the pro-
hibition of unrestricted trade and private ownership of small arms and
light weapons specifically designed for military purposes, such as
automatic guns (e.g., assault rifles and machine-guns).
— The United Nations’ Report of the Group of Governmental
Experts on Small Arms, August 19, 1999
In the long run, we must go the last mile.... The law must embody
the public policy goal of ridding our homes and communities of hand-
guns through restrictive handgun licensing.
— J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland,
A Farewell to Arms: The Solution to Gun Violence in America
October 20, 1999
A clear-cut plan to ban handguns should be developed and imple-
mented soon.
— Violence Policy Center,
Why America Needs to Ban Handguns, March 1, 2000
to get rid of the damned things en-
tirely — the handguns, the semis
and the automatics.
— Essayist Roger Rosenblatt,
Time, August 9, 1999
...we never face up to the obvious
preventive measure: a ban on the
handy killing machines that make
the crimes so easy.... A gun-con-
trol movement worthy of the name
would insist that President Clinton
move beyond his proposals for
controls ... and immediately call
on Congress to pass far-reaching
industry regulation like ... [a]
measure [that] would give the
Treasury Department health and
safety authority over the gun in-
dustry, and any rational regulator
with that authority would ban
handguns.
— Josh Sugarmann, executive
Just the beginning: "Our campaign
...to combat gun violence doesn’t
end with the Brady Bill" — it just
begins,” said Sarah Brady.
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As a realistic matter, guns cannot be confiscated in Red Nation - particularly when the failed urban areas with most all of Blue Nation depend on it so totally for food and even toilet paper. A vast, contiguous region of 120 million plus people - most all of whom have guns in their homes - is not the kind of place that the rather-tiny number of fedcops and even troops could disarm. Add the brutal tactical reality that daily, large numbers of Red Nation citizens are told that they are terminally ill - and thus have nothing to lose - and any attempt to subjugate Red Nation by force is hopeless.
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