In Their Own Words...and Actions

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

--George Santayana

To conquer a nation, one must first disarm its citizens by re-inventing their collective memory of the past.

--Joseph Goebbels

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

--George Orwell

Barack knows that we are going that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we are going to have to change our traditions; we are going to have to change our history to provide the kind of future we all desperately want for our children.

--Michelle Obama

To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.

--attributed to Adolph Hitler

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of its arms as the blackest.

--Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.

--Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope, p. 215

I just want you to know that we are working on it.  We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.

--Barack Obama to Sarah Brady regarding gun control.  Jason Horowitz, Washington Post, April 11, 2011

What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that's not cool; that it's not acceptable; it's not hip to carry a gun anymore; in the way in which we've changed our attitudes about cigarettes.  ...we need to really brainwash people to think about guns in a vastly different way.

--Attorney General Eric Holder

You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste.  And what I mean by that is [it]is an opportunity to do things you could not do before.

--Rahm Emanuel, former Obama Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor

In response to the massacre of 20 children and 8 adults in Newtown, CT, President Obama proposed three gun control actions to be passed in Congress.

1.  Universal background checks. 

2.  Renewal of a ban of military style assault weapons.

3.  Ban on high capacity ammunition magazines.

He also enacted 23 Executive Actions dealing with gun control.  You can see these Executive Actions here.