Reply #288: Bill Clinton 7/26/04 [View All]

[MrBenchley]

"In this year’s budget, the White House wants to cut off federal funding for 88,000 uniformed police, including more than 700 on the New York City police force who put their lives on the line on 9/11. As gang violence is rising and we look for terrorists in our midst, Congress and the President are also about to allow the ten-year-old ban on assault weapons to expire. Our crime policy was to put more police on the streets and take assault weapons off the streets. It brought eight years of declining crime and violence. Their policy is the reverse, they’re taking police off the streets and putting assault weapons back on the streets. If you agree with their choices, vote to continue them. If not, join John Kerry, John Edwards and the Democrats in making America safer, smarter, and stronger."

http://www.dems2004.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=luI2LaPYG&b=131063&ct=158734

And here he is on August 4...

""We could legalize deadly assault weapons and make it easier for terrorists and criminals to get, at the very time when this administration's got another proposal to de-fund 88,000 uniformed police officers on the street, including over 700 here in New York City who put their lives on the line on 9/11," the former president said. "

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/04/politics/main633881.shtml

And by the way, what he meant by that quote of yours was that the gun lobby threw millions into defeating Democrats...feel free to show us any time Big Bill said that assault weapons ought to be sold.

And feel free to show us where you got your Clinton quote.