Bill Clinton: “Well, I've got a crime bill up there that goes far beyond support for the Brady bill and for a restriction on automatic…”

“Well, I've got a crime bill up there that goes far beyond support for the Brady bill and for a restriction on automatic weapons--I mean, assault weapons, although I favor both those very strongly. We also, through the crime bill and several other initiatives, are attempting to put more police officers on the street, to support boot camps and other alternative forms of punishment for young people to try to steer them away from a life of crime, and to support improvements in the criminal justice system itself to make punishment more swift and more sure. But if you look at the crime bill, if you look at the effort to put more police officers on the street and to support community policing, and if you look at the effort to provide boot camps and alternative forms of punishment and pass the Brady bill and pass some limits on these semi-automatic assault weapons, that's a pretty broad-based anticrime strategy. I hope that the Congress will act on it and act on it this year. NAFTA”