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George Bush Sr. on Gun ControlPresident of the U.S., 1989-1993; Former Republican Rep. (TX) |
A law controlling firearms would be no different. What we in this country have is a human problem, infinitely complex in composition and certainly in solution.
When a person intends to kill another, he or she will proceed to do so with whatever tool is at hand. It can be a knife, a shovel, or a firepoker. Yet no one seriously proposes outlawing every sharp or blunt instrument within the reach of a possible murderer.
I do not oppose gun control because I am insensitive to the sort of brutality that [hospital staff] see every day. I do so because I believe gun control does not work. The actual solution lies far beyond the power of lawmakers, in the vast territory of the human mind. There it is either adopted in moments of anger or thrust aside in the impulse to kill.
