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Bill Clinton: Sure. You know, we've got the gun locks provision in the Congress, and that still might pass. But I have said, we ought…

On the recordJuly 9, 1999
Sure. You know, we've got the gun locks provision in the Congress, and that still might pass. But I have said, we ought to have registration. We register our cars. If your car gets stolen while you're doing this interview with me, and somebody drives it halfway across the country and leaves it in a parking lot--let's say in Lincoln, Nebraska--and the police find it, as soon as you report your car stolen, it will go into an international computer system. As soon as he, the person who finds your car in Lincoln, Nebraska, says, ``Here, I've found this stolen car, and here is the license plate and the registration,'' within 30 seconds, the local police in Chicago will be able to call you and say, ``Reverend Jackson, we found your car.'' And so, of course we should do these things. Mr. Jackson. So the drive to reduce easy access to guns and gun registration and gun education become factors in reducing the----
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Bill Clinton
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