Quotes related to the ANTI-Civil Rights Movement.

"I honestly think - and I am not an expert on the amendments - I think the only people in this nation who should be allowed to own guns are police officers. I don't care if you want to hunt. I don't care if you think it's your right. I say 'sorry.' It is 1999, we have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison."

--Rosie O'Donnell, April 21, 1999

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"The first problem is to slow down the number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and handgun ammunition -- except for the military, police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal."

--Pete Shields, Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine

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"Self-defense is not a legitimate purpose for gun ownership."

--Sarah Brady, Tampa Tribune

"The registering of hunting rifles is the first step in the social re-engineering of Canadians."

--Liberal Senator(Canadian Senate) Sharon Carstairs

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"I came to Ottawa last year, with the firm belief that the only people in Canada who should have firearms are police officers and the military."

--former Justice Minister Alan Rock (currently the Health Minister of Canada)

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"...disarming the Canadian public is part of the new humanitarian social agenda."

--Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axeworthy at a Gun Control conference in Oslo, Norway in 1998.

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"All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

--John Donne, 18th century English philospher

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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

--William Pitt , 1783

 

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