Who Said "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans?"?

Bill Clinton said, "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles...that we are unable to think about reality."

Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton.

Clinton Backs Gun-administration Efforts The Washington placed up Tuesday, March 2, 1993 PISCATAWAY, N.J. President Clinton Monday chided the nationwide Rifle association for opposing gun-administration efforts in Virginia and New Jersey and he pledged to artwork for "wise" controls on the nationwide factor. Clinton, in New Jersey to promote his nationwide service application, made the comments, his maximum wide on the challenge of gun administration, in an substitute with community journalists. New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio, a Democrat who's up for re-election this year, is locked in a conflict with the Republican legislature over his efforts to maintain the hardest controls contained in the rustic on attack guns. Clinton suggested the rustic "won't be able to be so fixated on our favor to maintain the rights of customary individuals to legitimately personal handguns and rifles ... that we are unable to imagine about the truth" of risky streets and violence in the course of the rustic. "i'm hoping the administration of the nationwide Rifle association will flow decrease back to doing what it did at the same time as i replaced right into a boy" -- providing coaching about looking and safe practices extremely than struggling with gun-administration proposals like those the following and in Virginia, he suggested. He suggested it replaced into "an mistakes" for the NRA to "oppose each attempt to convey some safe practices and some rationality into the way we cope with a number of the severe criminal issues we've" and suggested efforts in Virginia and New Jersey "do no longer unduly influence the right to keep and undergo hands. it really is not any longer going to kill all persons to attend some days to get a handgun at the same time as we do a heritage examine," he suggested. Clinton suggested a case of an acquaintance in Arkansas who offered a gun to a guy who used it to kill quite a few human beings and suggested the guy regretted his action at the same time as it replaced into got here upon the gun-customer replaced into mentally ill. waiting to envision on the backgrounds of gun consumers, he suggested, ought to avert such tragedies.

Definatly. Bill Clinton.

Couldn't have been Bush.

Too many 'big words' there.