From: jstrait@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (strait jeffrey c)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: interesting quotes
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:39:16 GMT
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booth@mdd.comm.mot.com (Greg Booth) writes:

>I found some interesting quotes in an old
>file I was digging through:

>  "This is the first step" -- U.S. Representative Edward Feighan, referring
>to the Brady Bill (which he introduced) at recent House hearings.

>  "We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is
>necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest...
>So we'll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again
>to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again.  Right now though,
>we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice.  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 possession of all
>handguns and all handgun ammunition -- except for military, policemen,
>licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun
>collectors -- totally illegal." -- Pet Shields, Chairman Emeritus, Handgun
>Control, Inc.  (interview appearing in The New Yorker, July 26, 1976)

>  "This is not all we will have in future Congresses, but this is a crack
>in the door.  There are too many handguns in the hands of citizens.  The
>right to keep and bear arms has nothing to do with the Brady Bill." -- U.S.
>Representative Craig Washington, at the mark-up hearing on the Brady Bill,
>April 10, 1991.

>  "Handguns should be outlawed.  Our organization will probably take this
>stand in time but we are not anxious to rouse the opposition before we get
>the other legislation passed." -- Elliot Corbett, Secretary, National
>Council For A Responsible Firearms Policy (interview appeared in the
>Washington Evening Star on September 19, 1969).

>  "It is our aim to ban the manufacture and sale of handguns to private
>individuals. . .the coalition's emphasis is to keep handguns out of private
>possession -- where they do the most harm."  Recruiting flyer currently
>distributed by The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, formerly called The
>National Coalition to Ban Handguns.

>  "Yes, I'm for an outright ban (on handguns)." -- Pete Shields, Chairman
>emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., during a 60 Minutes interview.

>  "We are at the point in time and terror where 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.  And I would look forward
>to the day when it would not be necessary for the policeman to carry a
>sidearm." -- Patrick V. Murphy, former New York City Police Commissioner,
>and now a member of Handgun Control's National Committee, during testimony
>to the National Association of Citizens Crime Commissions.

>  "My experience as a street cop suggests that most merchants should not
>have guns.  But I feel even stronger about the average person having
>them...most homeowners...simply have no need to own guns." -- Joseph
>McNamara, HCI spokesman, and former Chief of Police of San Jose,
>California.

>  "I don't want to go for confiscation, but that is where we are going." --
>Daryl Gates, Police Chief of Los Angeles, California.

> "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.

>  "The Brady Bill is the minimum step Congress should take...we need much
>stricter gun control, and eventually should bar the ownership of handguns,
>except in a few cases." -- U.S. Representative William Clay, quoted in the
>St. Louis Post Dispatch on May 6, 1991.

>  "It's only the first step, it's not going to be enough...we've got to go
>beyond that, and I hope we'll do it this session of Congress." -- U.S.
>Representative Edward Feighan during an interview on ABC News Nightline.


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