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Bill Clinton: So we have to make--anything we can do to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and kids, we ought to do. Mr. Gibson.…

On the recordJune 4, 1999
So we have to make--anything we can do to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and kids, we ought to do. Mr. Gibson. But when you went to Littleton, a friend of yours who supports you on gun control said to me in the last 48 hours, ``The President''--because, as he said, Littleton has seared the national conscience--``the President had a chance to roar on gun control, and he meowed.'' And that was a friend of yours. There are very basic measures that could be taken that people agree on. We register every automobile in America----
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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