Dianne Feinstein Quotes
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..
Dianne Feinstein, U. S. Senator (Democrat, CA), Mayor of San Francisco (Democrat), Interview, CBS 60 Minutes, February 5, 1995
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She told constituents that she would try and implement some gun control measures. She, later in her career explained to critics of Congressional inaction via gun control--see {640804}.
In 1988 and 1989 there was a rash of gun murders in Washington DC Most of the illegal guns confiscated in Washington had been procured legally in nearby Virginia:
He was unhappy about the fact that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were still routinely carrying guns on duty. In England and Canada there has been a tradition of police officers on their beats being unarmed. When more force is needed special armed police are dispatched.
This was the critical Supreme Court decision which finally decided the long debated issue or whether the right to bear arms was an individual right or a collective militia right. Scalia’s majority opinion ruled it an individual right, but it allowed for exceptions where there might be unusual individual risk. It also upheld the right of the government to control where guns are carried and to regulate the commercial sale of firearms which some of the pro gun extremists had insisted the government had no right of regulaltion.
Although written by a science fiction writer, this is one of the best quotations arguing for widespread gun ownership.
- Born: June 22, 1933
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Politician
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein is an American politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from California since 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, she was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
