Josh Sugarmann Quotes

#1. Handguns are a public-health problem.

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#2. You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.

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#3. Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

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#4. The NRA is right ... handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.

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#5. Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly focused on one goal: selling more guns.

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#6. To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

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#7. Americans are ready to hate somebody
and it's going to be the gun industry.

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#8. Immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

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