Political Quotes

“I say to my good friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), that I am with him a hundred percent on this resolution. We are going to support it. It asks for what we think ought to happen. We ought to have a meeting. We ought to discuss these things. We ought to settle them. I would point out parenthetically that paragraph number 2, ``common sense gun safety measure that prevent felons, fugitives and stalkers from obtaining firearms and children from getting access to guns,'' is already the law. The Brady bill, the Brady Law, Title 18, section 922(g), already prohibits fugitives, stalkers, and felons from buying or possessing a gun. And children already cannot buy handguns. I am proposing in my offer a ban on assault weapons being available to youngsters. Now, I have been proposing a gun control bill for many, many months. Last November 4, I sent a copy of it to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), and we have been talking about it on and off for, lo, these many months. The proposal that I have offered accepts the trigger lock requirement, in fact, as a stand-alone bill, it passed 311-115; a juvenile Brady that says, if a juvenile commits a disqualifying crime, they will never be eligible for a gun. That passed 395-27. We passed a ban on these large ammunition clips, 10 cartridges or more. That passed by voice vote. And then we had a prohibition on juveniles from possessing assault weapons, which I mentioned earlier. That passed 254-69.”