This article is from the talk.politics.guns Official Pro-Gun FAQ, by Ken Barnes (kebarnes@cc.memphis.edu) with numerous contributions by others.
"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom.
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.
That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the
public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon
sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer
in their communities."
-=(U.S. President Bill Clinton, MTV's "Enough is Enough," 4/19/94)=-
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States
for an_out_right_ban, picking up every one of them...
"Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in," I would have done it.
I_could_not do that. The votes weren't here."
-=(U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," 2/5/95,
speaking about her authorship of the 1994 "assault weapons" ban)=-
 
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