IF IT WERE UP TO ME WE’D BAN THEM ALL U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds (D) CNN Crossfire 12/9/93 on gunsThe Constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams, Debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790