Political Quotes

“there are not many times, but there are some times when the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], chairman of the Committee on Rules, and I agree. This is one of these times that I strongly agree, and I think just as strongly as the gentleman from New York on this issue. Mr. Speaker, I would like to address my remarks basically to those Members that were not here in August 1994 and September 1994, because those that were know how they voted and know why they voted, and basically it is the same vote. However, those who were not here in 1994 know that if they do not know much about guns, I think Members should educate themselves before they vote on this issue. I would like to help them just a little bit. In the first place, these guns that were banned, the few semi-automatics that were banned are no different, are no different from the semi-automatic that I use every year that I go hunting for deer in Missouri in my district. They work the very same way. They just look different. They are no different, they are no different. They were in that same bill in 1994 that banned a few semi-automatics that they call assault weapons, that are not, Mr. Speaker, they are not.”