Of course we want the crime bill to succeed. But if the government spends more money for police and jails, while continuing to break down the barriers of individual responsibility, the result will be nothing more than another government boondoggle with our tax dollars. Dr. Michael K. Evans, president of Evans Economics, Inc., in Industry Week, Feb. 21, 1994. Guns Many commentators and politicians favor going beyond the Brady Bill to lengthen so-called waiting periods before a citizen may purchase a handgun. The results are in.
Gun control makes the street safe for violent criminals.
The people's right to protect themselves should be restored, not restricted. Alan M. Gottlieb, chairman of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, in USA Today, Nov. 22, 1993. But as a study has revealed, while waiting periods were increasing so were murder rates, from two per 100,000 in 1952, to 10 by 1975. . . The president, Congress, and state legislatures are constitutionally prevented from infringing on our right to bear arms, and a look at the statistics makes one question why they would want to anyway, since gun control hasn't worked where it has been tried. It is an authoritarian step in the wrong direction and a convenient distraction for people who don't want to deal with the real issues of removing from the streets the people who commit the crimes.