illegals & 2nd Amendment - part 3 of 4: "Thank God for Arizona. Check out these pictures."

THINK IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE?

Warning:
"We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns [to ban.]"

-- Jose Cerda (White House official) (Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct 1997,

Mr. Cerda was named as a "White House official who specializes in gun control.")

Warning:
"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe."

-- Senator Dianne Feinstein

Warning:
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban [on "assault weapons"], picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America turn them all in, I would have done it."

-- Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), CBS 60 Minutes, Feb. 5, 1995, California Democrat Senator, (author of "Feinstein Amendment" which became the '94 gun ban) [Sen Feinstein held/holds? a CCP for herself ...not you though!]

Warning:
"We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns [to ban.]"

-- Jose Cerda (White House official) (Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct 1997, Mr. Cerda was named as a "White House official who specializes in gun control.")

Warning:
"If it were up to me, we'd ban them all [firearms]."

-- Mel Reynolds (U.S. Congressman) (CNN Crossfire, 9 Dec 1993)

Warning:
"Kennedy said he favors an outright ban on handguns, but doubts its palatability in the current political climate."

-- Patrick Kennedy (U.S. Congressman, R.I.) (Providence Journal, 4 Jan 99)

Warning:
"We're going to have to take this one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily - given the political realities - going to be very modest. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal - total control of all guns - is going to take time. The final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition - except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs and licensed gun collectors - totally illegal."

-- Nelson T. (Pete) Shields III (Founder, Handgun Control, Inc.; National Council to Control Handguns)

Warning:
"There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia."

-- Sarah Brady (Chairman, Handgun Control, Inc.) (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 6 June 97, pg. 6)

Warning:
"We have a tremendous opportunity to take a giant leap forward in our fight to require gun licensing in this country if Initiative 676 succeeds, there's no question but that we will have created enormous momentum for a national gun licensing law."

-- Sarah Brady (Chairman, Handgun Control, Inc.) (HCI fund-raising letter, Oct '97, speaking of Initiative 676 in WA)

Warning:
"I don't believe gun owners have rights. The Second Amendment has never been interpreted that way and every court case that's ever come down has shown that."

-- Sarah Brady (Chairman, Handgun Control, Inc.) ("Guns in America: Part III", Hearst Newspaper 1997, By Holly Yeager)

Warning:
"To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence."

-- Josh Sugarman (Executive Director, Violence Policy Center; former Communications Director of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns) (Mother Jones Magazine, Jan/Feb 94, article titled "Reverse Fire")

Warning:
"Under such a plan (proposed by Sugarmann, where ATF would have total say on legality of guns) would result in an immediate ban on the future production and sale of handguns and assault weapons."

-- Josh Sugarman (Executive Director, Violence Policy Center; former Communications Director of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns) (Mother Jones Magazine, Jan/Feb 94, article titled "Reverse Fire")

Warning:
"The semiautomatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion ..[that] anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun - can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."

-- Josh Sugarman (Executive Director, Violence Policy Center; former Communications Director of the National Coalition to BanHandguns) ("Assault Weapons and Accessories in America") [Washington, DC Education Fund to End Handgun Violence and New Right Watch] Sep 88, p.26)

Warning:
"We endorse a handgun ban. I will tell you that right now. We absolutely endorse that ban and we are absolutely vocal about it."

-- Susan Glick (Spokesperson for the Violence Policy center) [answering: "What is your ultimate goal?"] (Talk Show Front Page on WVLK AM 590, Lexington, KY, 3 Dec 97)

Warning:
"If you've got to resist [an attacker], your chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah."

-- Arthur Kellerman (Published 1986 "study" discouraging people from using guns for self defense) (Health magazine, Mar/Apr 94)

Warning:
"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or military person to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun."

-- Michael Gartner (President NBC News) (USA Today 16 Jan 1992)

Warning:
"We will never fully solve our nation's horrific problem of gun violence unless we ban the manufacture and sale of handguns and semi-automatic assault weapons."

-- USA Today Newspaper Article, 29 Dec 93

Warning:
"A bill requiring all handguns to be given to the government will be introduced Tuesday by Sen. John Chafee."

-- USA Today Newspaper Article 1 Jun 92

Warning:
"Why should America adopt a policy of near-zero tolerance for private gun ownership? Who can still argue compellingly that Americans can be trusted to handle guns safely? We think the time has come for Americans to tell the truth about guns. They are not for us, we cannot handle them."

-- Los Angeles Times Newspaper Article 28 Dec 93

Warning:
"The claim of the advocates that banning these 19 types of 'assault weapons' will reduce the crime rate is laughable. Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquillity. Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic -- purely symbolic move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. De-escalation begins with a change in mentality. And that change in mentality starts with the symbolic yielding of certain types of weapons. The real steps, like the banning of handguns, will never occur unless this one is taken first, and even then not for decades."

-- Charles Krauthammer (Syndicated columnist) (The Washington Post, 5 April 1996)

Warning:
"The plain fact is that the United States is now hostage to a harrowing epidemic of gun violence, and the Brady bill won't do much to change that. The National Rifle Association has been saying this all along, and the NRA is right. The NRA has also argued that a waiting period won't prevent criminals from getting guns. And it's right about that, too. Enactment of the Brady bill will, however, represent a victory of some political significance - a visible defeat for the tenacious lobbying power of the NRA. Thus the limited scope of the Brady bill was justified as a necessary first step toward breaking the NRA's power - a way to demonstrate that politicians could support a moderate version of control and survive."

-- William Greider (writer, Rolling Stone magazine) (Rolling Stone, article entitled: "A Pistol-whipped Nation - Pass the Brady Bill - then ban handguns", 30 Sep 93, pg. 31)

Warning:
"I have not one doubt, even if I am in agreement with the National Rifle Association, that that kind of record keeping procedure (gun registration) is the first step to eventual confiscation under one administration or another."

-- Charles Morgan (Director, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C. office), in a 1975 hearing before the House Subcommittee on Crime

Warning:
"We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!"

-- Carl Rowan (Washington, DC Syndicated Columnist) (1981 article) (note: This statment was before he [Rowan] shot an unarmed trespasser with an unregistered handgun.) ..as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family." (1988 article titled "At Least They're Not Writing My Obituary", after shooting an unarmed trespasser with an unregistered handgun)

Warning:
"Men possess handguns in order to compensate for sexual dysfunction."

-- Doctor Joyce Brothers (Psychiatrist, TV personality) [ note: her husband is among NYC elite that has been

issued a permit to carry a concealed handgun] ...You try to get a CCW permit in NYC! ]

Warning:
"The only way to make America safe: go house to house and confiscate every gun."

-- Sylvester (aka "The Italian Stallion") Stallone (actor) (Access Hollywood, 8 June 98)

Warning:
"Their movement [2nd Amendment supporters] is so well grounded in the Constitution, it's 200 years old. Our movement is probably 20 years from reaching its peak."

-- Mike Seeley (Spokesman for Washington Citizens for Handgun safety, gun control lobby group pushing I-676, a gun licensing law) (Reuters)

Warning:
"Maybe we brought out the extremist vote with this one."

-- Mike Seeley (Spokesman for Washington Citizens for Handgun Safety, gun control lobby group pushing I-676, a gun licensing law) (The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA 6 Nov 97, after their ballot measure requiring gun licenses was defeated 71% - 29%)

"The death of a Nation, that came from within. This was something President Lincoln said: All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

-- Abraham Lincoln, Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838

more "American Founding Fathers' & Traditional American Values" quotes at: http://harrold.org/quotes

AND NOW, HOPEFULLY, THE ORIGINAL EMAIL BELOW WITH ITS PHOTOS, WILL BE VIEWED DIFFERENTLY THAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE. ~~ rfh, Mo.7Jun10

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