We who own guns for personal and family protection are targets of opportunity for this sort of slander and libel. We shall receive there as much succor as the victims of the pogroms would have received from the Hitler Youth. Do not speak to me of Thomas Jefferson. Speak to me of civil rights. President Clinton has spoken enthusiastically of the proposals by the politically opportunistic mayors of our two largest cities to limit handgun ownership with a scheme of needs-based licensing.
History shows where they come from .
We've seen it in their cities in the issuance of permits to carry concealed handguns. When that is applied to mere ownership of handguns, I think we all know where it is going. It discriminates against the old, with their traditionally fixed incomes, and against the sick and the crippled who need a defense gun most, but are most likely to be burdened by the sort of medical debt that the First Lady has so often decried. Although those who would make the gun owners of America as extinct in America as German Jews in 1944 Berlin would paint themselves as the champions of the poor and the oppressed and the people of color, the fact is in this nation that the yoke of poverty has fallen most heavily on just those citizens. It is they who are most likely to be trapped in the pockets of poverty that they call the inner city, the places where crime breeds.