10/18/1999
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"More than 14,000 people were murdered with guns in the United States in 1997."
"In certain communities, violent crime rates have gone down even more dramatically."
"Disarming criminals has been and must continue to be a top crime-fighting priority."
"The idea of community—not some sappy, purely altruistic idea, but that we ourselves cannot have the lives we want unless we give our brothers and sisters... the same opportunity."