"... the strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance."
Thomas Paine
"Investigate the NRA with renewed vigor. Print names of those who take NRA funds. Support all causes the NRA opposes. ...The work a day guy doesn't envision total confiscation, but many with the real power to sway public opinion and effect change in America do."
T. Winship - Editor of the Boston Globe wrote this in Editor and Publisher Magazine, April 24, 1993
"I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness . . . The Constitution doesn't count!"
John Silber, former chancellor of Boston University and candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Speech before the Quequechan Club of Fall River, MA. August 16, 1990.
"You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here."
Mary McGrory, Arizona Daily Star, 3/11/93 p. A16.
"We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles...that we are unable to think about reality."
Bill Clinton - USA Today, 11 March 93, pg. 2A.
"I don’t think the American people are there right now. But with more than 200 million guns in circulation, we’ve got so much more to do on this issue before we even reach that. I don’t think that’s an option now. But there are certain kinds of guns that can be banned and a lot of other reasonable regulations that can be imposed."
Bill Clinton - When asked of the possibility of a federal law banning handguns, interview in Rolling Stone magazine, 9 Dec 93, pg. 45.
"The second article of amendment (Second Amendment) to the Constitution of the United States is repealed."
Major Owens - U.S. Congressman - U.S. House Joint Resolution 438 introduced 11 March 1992 by Congressman Owens, D-NY.
The only purpose of gun registration is gun confiscation
But... we COULDN'T do it in Somalia. If we tried it here, then perhaps that bastard Professor de Genovoa really will get the "thousand Mogadishus" he wanted to see -- but in America, not Iraq.
Not to mention the fact that a substantial percentage of our troops would undoubtedly defect to the pro-gun side. After all, how many liberals are there in an all-volunteer military?
Random thought: Did Clinton send troops to disarm the Somalis, as a test case to see if he could pull it off here? Gotta wonder.