We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily ... given the political realities ... very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal."
--Peter Shields, founder of Handgun Control Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976
"We must get rid of all the guns."
-Sarah Brady, Handgun Control, Inc. on the Phil Donahue Show, September 1994 ]
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out-right ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."
Senator Dianne Feinstein CBS-TV's "60 Minutes", February 5, 1995
Now possibly over the years the leadership of the gun control movement has realized that banning all firearms is impossible. If so there may be some hope for making headway on the issue of gun violence in our nation.
No, I did not insinuate that Democrats are gun grabbers. If you read my post carefully you will find that I refereed to "the leadership of the gun control movement" Many Democrats are pro-gun rights.
It's the NRA and the Republicans that foster the stereotype you mention.
I do agree that we will not see gun bans and confiscations any time soon in our nation. Such a law would have no chance of making through the House and only a slim chance of passing in the Senate as many Democrats who come from Red states would never vote for it.
But here on DU I have seen the idea of banning and confiscating all guns mentioned frequently in recent days.
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