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"BANNING GUNS IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME"
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U.S. Senator Joseph Biden 11/18/93 Associated Press
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"The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion."
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Sir Edmund Burke, 1784
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"HANDGUNS ARE A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE"
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Joycelyn Elders USA Today 11/9/93
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"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I
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advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives
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boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind...Let your gun therefore
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be the constant companion of your walks."
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Thomas Jefferson, Encyclopedia of Thomas Jefferson, 318
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"BANNING GUNS ADDRESSES A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF AMERICANS TO FEEL SAFE"
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U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein AP 11/18/93
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"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
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deserve neither liberty nor safety"
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Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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"UNTIL WE CAN BAN ALL OF THEM, THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL BAN NONE."
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U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum Senate Hearings 1993
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither
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inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for
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the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to
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encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
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greater confidence than an armed one."
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Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764.
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"WE'RE HERE TO TELL THE NRA THEIR NIGHTMARE IS TRUE" "WE'RE GOING TO
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HAMMER GUNS ON THE ANVIL OF RELENTLESS LEGISLATIVE STRATEGY! WE'RE GOING
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TO BEAT GUNS INTO SUBMISSION!"
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U.S. Representative Charles Schumer NBC 11/30 12/8/93
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"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them,
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may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be
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occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to
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the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the
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article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
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Tench Coxe in "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments
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to the Federal Constitution." Under a pseudonym "A Pennsyl-
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vanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18,1789
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"MY BILL ... ESTABLISHES A 6-MONTH GRACE PERIOD FOR THE TURNING IN OF ALL
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HANDGUNS"
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U.S. Representative Major Owens Congressional Record 11/10/93
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"A free people ought..to be armed..."
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George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
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"GUN REGISTRATION IS NOT ENOUGH." "I'VE ALWAYS PROPOSED STATE LICENSING ..
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WITH SOME FEDERAL STANDARDS."
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Janet Reno AP 12/10/93 ABC 12/10/93
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"Arms in the hands of citizens [may] be used at individual discretion..in
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private self-defense..."
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John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of the Government
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of the USA, 471 (1788)
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"WITH A 10,000% TAX WE COULD TAX THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE."
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U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan Washington Post 11/4/93
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"I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few
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public officials."
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George Mason, 3 Elliott, Debates at 425-426
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"IF IT WERE UP TO ME WE'D BAN THEM ALL"
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U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds CNN Crossfire 12/9/93
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"The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the
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United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
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Samuel Adams, Debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87
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