From: booth@mdd.comm.mot.com (Greg Booth)
Subject: interesting quotes
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:59:02 GMT

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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