Originally posted by JimL
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Here are but a few examples...
"I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs). . . . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!"
--Sen. John H. Chafee (R-RI), Minneapolis Star Tribune, 6/15/92
"[The country] can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles."
-- President Bill Clinton, Washington Post, 3/2/93
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it."
--Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), CBS 60 Minutes, 2/5/95
"Let’s take all the handguns we have in America, put them on a couple of old rusted ships, take them out in the middle of the ocean and sink them, that would be the best thing to do."
--Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing, 5/15/2000
“The Second Amendment does not extend an individual right to keep and bear arms.”
—Seth Waxman 41st U.S. Solicitor General, explaining position of the Clinton/Gore U.S. Department of Justice, 8/22/2000
During the 2016 election, a CNN "fact check" noted that
"Some Democrats have supported a mandatory gun confiscation buy-back. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, instead supports a voluntary buy-back program."
For instance, old Joe on Anderson Cooper's 360 on August, 5 2019:
ANDERSON COOPER: "To gun owners out there who say well a Biden administration means they're going to come for my guns."
JOE BIDEN: "Bingo. You're right if you have an assault weapon, the fact of the matter is that they should be illegal. Period."
JOE BIDEN: "Bingo. You're right if you have an assault weapon, the fact of the matter is that they should be illegal. Period."
That doesn't sound very "voluntary" to me.
And earlier, before the left finally realized that the American public wouldn't stand for the confiscation of all firearms and started focusing instead at going after them piecemeal, old Joe declared
"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come."
--old Joe, Associated Press, 11/18/93
Please note that he wasn't restricting it to just supposed "assault weapons" (a term the left concocted to describe scary-looking semi-automatic firearms), but "guns" in general.
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