"The thought that average citizens will somehow be better able to successfully defend themselves more effectively than our nation's trained professionals is absurd."
Official Statement of Handgun Control Incorporated (HCI)

"We must be able to arrest people before they commit crimes. By registering guns and knowing who has them we can do that. .If they have guns they are pretty likely to commit a crime."
Vermont State Senator Mary Ann Carlson

"I am one who believes that as a first step, the United States should move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other than police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols, and revolvers...No one should have the right to anonymous ownership or use of a gun."
Professor Dean Morris, Director of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, stated to the U.S. Congress

"We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns." Rahm Emmanuel

Susan Glick of Violence Policy Center, Washington DC: "Sir, we're not hiding behind anything. We endorse a handgun ban. I will tell you that right now. We absolutely endorse that ban..."
Caller, Mark: "Now you're saying that's what your ultimate goal is..."
Glick: "That's right, and we are absolutely vocal about it..."
-on radio talk show "Front Page" hosted by Sue Wiley on WVLK Radio 590am Lexington KY 12/3/1997

"I don't believe gun owners have rights."
Sarah Brady, Hearst Newspapers Special Report "Handguns in America", October 1997

"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 'em all in," I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D/CA) speaking of her authorship of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban on "60 Minutes" 2/5/95 *Don't forget: Senator Feinstein packs and has armed bodyguards with "assault" weapons to protect her!

"We must get rid of all the guns."
Sarah Brady speaking on behalf of HCI with Sheriff Jay Printz & others on "The Phil Donahue Show" September 1994

"For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments."
James Brady, Parade Magazine 6/26/94

"...When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly....[However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
President Bill Clinton on MTV "Enough is Enough" 3/22/94

"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
HCI President Sarah Brady to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, The National Educator, January 1994, p.3

"I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns."
Senator Howard Metzenbaum, 1994

"[President Clinton]...ordered the Justice Department to begin studying gun licensing, registration, and collection proposals."
The Washington Times 12/12/93

"Gun registration is not enough."
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno on "Good morning America" 12/10/93

"We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!"
U.S. Representative Charles Schumer (D/NY) on NBC 12/8/93

"Our goal is to not allow anybody to buy a handgun. In the meantime, we think there ought to be strict licensing and regulation. Ultimately, that may mean it would require court approval to buy a handgun."
President of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Michael K. Beard, Washington Times 12/6/93 p.A1

"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal."
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, December 1993

"If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees."
President Bill Clinton 8/12/93

"I feel very strongly about it [the Brady Bill]. I think - I also associate myself with the other remarks of the Attorney General. I think it's the beginning. It's not the end of the process by any means."
President Bill Clinton 8/11/93

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
President Bill Clinton, speech in Philadelphia PA City Hall courtyard 5/28/93

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans"
President Bill Clinton at press conference in Piscataway NJ 3/1/93, Boston Globe 3/2/93 & USA Today 3/11/93

"There is no reason for anyone in this country- anyone except a police officer or military person- to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns."
President Bill Clinton while signing the Brady Bill 1993

"The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people."
President Bill Clinton on "MTV" 1993

"Our ultimate goal- total control of handguns in the United States- is going to take time...The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced...The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of handguns and all handgun ammunition- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors- totally illegal."
Nelson Shields (Sarah Brady's predecessor at HCI), New Yorker Magazine 7/26/76 p.53 *NOTE: HCI added rifles and shotguns to this list about 10 years ago.

Where did the above individuals get their ideas from?
Read the quotes below and see:

"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."
Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party 2/25/56

"Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of preeminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position."
Mario Palmieri in The Philosophy of Fascism 1936

"Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
Heinrich Himmler 1935

"There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war."
Benito Mussolini

"It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual .... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture .... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man."
Adolph Hitler 1933

"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood."
Adolph Hitler, quoted in Hitler, A Study in Tyranny by Alan Bullock, Harper Collins, NY

"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all."
Vladimir Lenin, quoted in Not by Politics Alone

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