You know you have had a bad week when the high point was the visit from the ATF.
Joe Huffman
March 22, 2005
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
Quote of the day–Richard Roberts
What’s the difference between the person who hits you and the person who ties your hands so that someone else can hit you? Whoever takes away your ability to defend yourself needs to be defended against.
Richard Roberts
Quote of the day–Charles Schumer
We’re here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true!. We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer
November 30, 1993
NBC Nightly News
Quote of the day–Daniel Patrick Moynihan
With a 10,000% tax we could tax them out of existence.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
November 4, 1993
Washington Post
Refering to a tax on ammunition.
Quote of the day–Dianne Feinstein
Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein
November 18, 1993
Associated Press
[A reminder of how far we have come in the past few years.]
Quote of the day–Joseph Biden
Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.
U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden
November 18, 1993
Associated Press
[A reminder of how far we have come in the last few years.]
Quote of the day–Samuel Adams
If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
1776
Quote of the day–Tim Kaine
Nobody who supports the Second Amendment has anything to fear from me.
Tim Kaine
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
Former Richmond Mayor who used city funds to help bus Richmond activists to the “Million Mom March” in Washington, D.C., in 2000.
From the Roanke Times May 15, 2005
[A reminder of how far we have come in the past few years.]
Quote of the day–Condoleezza Rice
The Second Amendment is as important as the First Amendment.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
May 11, 2005
In an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live, recalling how her father took up arms to defend fellow blacks from racist whites in the segregated South. She said her father, a black minister, and his friends armed themselves to defended the black community in Birmingham, Ala., against the White Knight Riders in 1962 and 1963. She said if local authorities had had lists of registered weapons, she did not think her father and other blacks would have been able to defend themselves.
[A reminder of how far we have come in the past few years.]
Quote of the day–Charles E. Schumer
What is sad is that this Congress is in danger of becoming irrelevant. We are on the verge of ceding responsibility from the legislative branch to the judicial branch because we cannot stand up to [the] gun lobby. It is ironic and fitting that our inability to act in any way that satisfies the American people has spawned a series of lawsuits that could ultimately impose penalties on the gun industry far more severe than even the most ardent gun control supporters in Congress hope to achieve.
Charles E. Schumer
November 4, 1999
http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR00067.html
[Could this have been the turning point? The instant when we held the line and our attackers directed their attention to a perceived weakness in our flank?]
Quote of the day–Bill Clinton
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.
Bill Clinton
August 12, 1993
[A reminder of how far we have come in the last few years.]
Quote of the day–Bill Clinton
I think, as I said, what Governor Florio did and what Governor Wilder did, I think will contribute to Americans facing this and trying to reconcile our absolute obligation under the Constitution to give people the right to handle a firearm responsibly and our obligation to try to preserve peace and keep these kids alive in our cities.
Bill Clinton
March 1, 1993
Remarks in discussion with National Service Volunteers
[Florio banned the sale and severely restricting the possession of semi-automatic rifles and pistols in New Jersey. Wilder implemented gun rationing in Virginia. Notice that Clinton talks about “giving a right“? If something is “given“ then it isn’t a right, it’s a privilege. And then just seven months later he talks about doing weapons sweeps. A reminder of how far we have come in recent years.]
Quote of the day–New York Times
The Clinton Administration has underestimated the extent to which high-tech and privacy groups oppose the Clipper and Tessara chips — encryption technologies that would allow federal agencies with court orders to eavesdrop on data and voice communications. At the recent conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, an Administration spokesman asked: “Do you really want to live in a world where law enforcement can not do its job because of the need for privacy?” Pressed to explain how crooks and terrorists smart enough to use encryption could be stupid enough to use the government’s own encryption standards, the spokesman insisted: “You shouldn’t overestimate the I.Q. of crooks.”
New York Times
March 26, 1994 p.19
[In the mid 90’s we were being assaulted on all sides, the gun issue, the surveillance issue, and our medical and financial records (remember “Know your customer“?). We have made good progress but have work yet to do.]
Quote of the day–Bill Clinton
And we should — then every community in the country could then start doing major weapon sweeps and then destroying the weapons, not selling them.
Bill Clinton
October 1, 1993
[A reminder of how far we have come in the past few years.]
Quote of the day–Joseph P. Tartaro
Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. John Chafee (R-RI) made their big anti-gun push after Terry and Florio lost. They are all going to be back in the 104th Congress and they have said nothing to indicate that they will not keep pushing. Schumer and Feinstein got only part of what they wanted. Chafee didn’t get his bill to ban all handguns in the last Congress, so he can be expected to file it again.
Schumer’s agenda still calls for passage of Brady II, which would require, among other things, that all handguns be licensed by the states along federal guidelines on a “needs” basis, that the licenses would have to be shown to buy handgun ammunition for the particular licensed guns, that the licenses would be renewable every two years at high cost, that people who own more than 20 firearms (rifles, shotguns and/or handguns) or 1,000 rounds of ammunition or one box of primers would have to pay for an expensive arsenal license and be subject to home inspection by the police. Brady II will be filed again, in part because Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), who was re-elected also, called for its passage during his election campaign.
Hindsight from The New Gun Week Dec. 9, 1994
Nov. 8 Election Commentaries
by Joseph P. Tartaro
http://www.ccrkba.org/pub/rkba/hindsight/hs941209.txt
[A reminder of how far we have come in the last few years.]
Quote of the day–Bill Clinton
I think — you know, we can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles…
Bill Clinton
March 1, 1993
A reminder of how far we have come in the past few years.
Quote of the day–dipnut -at- isntapundit.com
Nobody, not even Hillary Clinton, can shoot a boomer at twenty paces and not grin like a rabid hyena afterwards.
dipnut -at- isntapundit.com
http://isntapundit.com/?date=20050505#dipnut_064447
May 05, 2005
Quote of the day–James Bovard
Gun bans in response to high crime rates mean closing the barn door after the horse has escaped. The higher the crime rate, the less right the government has to restrict or impede people’s ability to defend themselves. According to gun ban advocates, government has a specific, concrete obligation to disarm each citizen, but only an abstract obligation to defend the citizen.
James Bovard
Lost Rights
ISBN 0-312-12333-7
Copyright 1994, 1995
Quote of the day–Thomas Paine
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Quote of the day–Lee Ellyn Frailey
We have to get an AR!
Lee Ellyn Frailey
May 1, 2005
While at Boomershoot 2005
She said this shortly after this video was shot. Lee Ellyn is the third person from the left. I apologized to her husband for creating an addict. He said they would borrow one for next year.