"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."
Ramsey Clark
Never thought I'd see anyone cite Ramsey Clark in defense of the Second Amendment!
"If government is incapable of keeping guns from the potential criminal while permitting them to the law-abiding citizen, then government is inadequate to the times. The only alternative is to remove guns from the American scene."
Ramsey Clark, Crime in America, 1970
As Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson, Ramsey Clark restructured federal prisons to stress the importance of rehabilitation and early release. He oversaw the first federal gun-control law to be enacted in over thirty years - the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Ramsey Clark subsequently acted as counsel for North Vietnamese Communists and Iran’s Islamic dictatorship, and more recently volunteered to act as defense counsel for Saddam Hussein.
