“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, CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes,” February 5, 1995, speaking about her authorship of the 1994 “assault weapons” ban**

“No, we’re not looking at how to control criminals … we’re talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.” — Sen. Howard Metzenbaum

“Ban the damn things (guns). Ban them all. You want protection? Get a dog.” –Molly Ivins, columnist, 7/19/94*****

“You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.” –Mary McGrory, Arizona Daily Star columnist, 3/11/93**

“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, 4/21/99**

“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******

“The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I’m just so thrilled and excited. “The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.”
…Sarah Brady, 1 July 1988

“We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily, given political realities, going to be very modest. 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 in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered, and the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns, and all handgun ammunition illegal!”
-Nelson T. Shields of Hangun Control, Inc. as quoted in `New Yorker’ magazine July 26, 1976. Page 53f

———–The above sounds pretty familiar after reading the following? Let’s NOT let history repeat itself !———————————

“All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately … The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon … must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.” – SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA – ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.” — Heinrich Himmler

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms, history shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall” -Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938.

“The first thing you have to do is disarm the people. A disarmed public can’t fight back” — Adolf Hitler

Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. — Mao Tse Tung

“Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.” — V. I.
Lenin

“The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of these elements make difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising. Therefore, the heads of provinces, official agents, and deputies are ordered to collect all the weapons mentioned above and turn them over to the government.” — Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Shogun 29 August 1558