When the gun prohibitionists say they don’t want to ban guns but merely regulate them or some of them, point to this.
A friend passed it to me and it contains at least 75 instances going back to 1993 where there were calls to ban guns.
2020 Presidential candidates that have advocated gun confiscation.
[or any synonyms thereof: mandatory buy back etc, virtual confiscation/permission requirements ]
https://betoorourke.com/gun-violence/
Beto O’Rourke[Actual and virtual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for an unalienable human right]
https://medium.com/@corybooker/corys-plan-to-end-the-gun-violence-epidemic-ab377d9fb112
Cory Booker:
Cory’s Plan to End the Gun Violence Epidemic
[virtual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for an unalienable human right]
https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/gun-violence
Elizabeth Warren
https://noqreport.com/2019/10/27/front-runner-elizabeth-ersatz-warren-now-demanding-gun-confiscation/
[Actual & combined with virtual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for an unalienable human right]
https://ericswalwell.com/endgunviolence/Eric Swalwell
[Actual and virtual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for an unalienable human right]
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
Joe Biden: The Biden plan to end our gun violence epidemic
[virtual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for an unalienable human right]
https://issues.juliancastro.com/disarming-hate/Julián Castro
[virtual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for an unalienable human right]
https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/17/kamala-harris-force-gun-owners-sell-assault-weapons-government/
Kamala Harris Would Force Gun Owners To Sell Their Assault Weapons To The Government
[Forced compensated confiscation]
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/14/mandatory-buyback-assault-weapons-kirsten-gillibrand-1462712
Kirsten Gillibrand suggests support for mandatory buyback of assault weapons
[Actual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for an unalienable human right].
https://medium.com/the-moment-by-pete-for-america/an-action-plan-to-combat-the-national-threat-posed-by-hate-and-the-gun-lobby-5752a68c954e
Pete Buttigieg
[virtual confiscation/governmental permission requirements for unalienable human rights].
2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/us/politics/Ralph-Northam-Virginia-democrats.html
[NYT] VA Governor Northam “has not ruled out confiscating assault weapons from gun owners.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/11/04/behar-advises-2020-dems-dont-tellwait-until-you-get-elected-then
Behar Advises 2020 Dems: ‘Don’t Tell…Wait Until You Get Elected Then Take Guns Away’</a>.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Beto-O-Rourke-claims-he-hasn-t-talked-about-14563106.php
Beto O’Rourke claims he hasn’t talked about confiscating guns
https://www.c-span.org/video/?464471-1/house-judiciary-committee-hearing-assault-weapons
Dr. RaShall Brackney, Chief of the Charlottesville Police Department [Paraphrasing] “Any weapons that can be used to kill people should be banned”
https://marchforourlives.com/peace-plan/
A Peace Plan for a Safer America [Demands for compensated confiscation as well as virtual confiscation of all guns in addition to a licensing requirement for an unalienable human right]
https://noqreport.com/2019/07/12/iowa-senator-claire-celsi-gets-snippy-2nd-amendment-defender/
Iowa state Sen. Claire Celsi dictatorial senator threatens to take guns by force if the gun owner wasn’t “nice” to her.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/1/18683860/democrats-2020-gun-control-mass-shootings
Vox: Democrats have been discussing the same ideas on guns for 25 years. It’s time to change that.
[Virtual and actual gun confiscation, requiring governmental permission for an unalienable human right].
https://twitter.com/Nate_McMurray/status/1143390664341807104?
Nate McMurray YEP. I’M COMING FOR YOUR AR15
[Congressional candidate calling for gun confiscation]
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gibson-guns-legislation-weaponizing-20190625-story.html
La Times: Banning semiautomatic weapons won’t solve America’s gun problem
[Detailing why just getting rid of semi-autos won’t be enough]
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/illinois-state-senator-maybe-its-best-to-just-grab-all-the-assault-weapons-guns-after-all/
Illinois State Senator Julie Morrison: “Maybe it’ll just be a confiscation and we won’t have to worry about paying the fine.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/05/14/goosebumps-cnns-baldwin-camerota-cheer-hogg-family-push-mass-gun
‘Goosebumps’! CNN’s Baldwin, Camerota Cheer Hogg Family, Push Mass Gun Confiscation
https://www.syracuse.com/opinion/2019/04/20-years-after-columbine-guns-are-the-problem-guns-need-to-go-commentary.html
Syracuse.com: 20 years after Columbine: ‘Guns are the problem. Guns need to go.’ (Commentary)
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1108562224514326528
Bernie Sanders: We must follow New Zealand’s lead.. ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1108908752865054720
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Ban bump stocks, semiautos, & high cap mags designed to kill people
2018
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/november-december-2018/a-real-longterm-solution-to-gun-violence/
Washington Monthly: A Real Long-Term Solution to Gun Violence
;[Forced nationalization of the arms industry, compensated confiscation]
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a25235545/gun-buyback-national-gun-registry-success-gun-control/
Harper’s Bazaar: Why We Need to Ban Assault Rifles
href=”https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/ban-all-semiautomatic-firearms/
Mother Jones: Ban All Semiautomatic Firearms
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/mcdermott-the-gun-ban-that-worked/article_23d189b9-7ce1-55f8-bca6-a0b5c2f6c23a.html
stltoday.com: The gun ban that worked [Virtual gun confiscation – the demand to require governmental permission to possess an unalienable human right]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/toronto-shooting-handgun-ban-canada
The Guardian: ‘Why does anyone need a gun?’: Toronto shooting prompts calls for handgun ban
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a20747292/nra-guns-take-them-away
Esquire: Okay, Now I Actually Do Want To Take Your Guns
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/03/ban-assault-weapons-buy-them-back-prosecute-offenders-column/570590002/
Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters: Ex-prosecutor in Congress
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/3/17174160/assault-weapons-ban-research-study
Vox: Why an assault weapons ban can’t address America’s gun problem
https://twitter.com/Emma4Change/status/988036115579002881?
Emma González [March for our Lives]:
Removing the assault and semi-automatic weapons from our Civilian society, instituting thorough background checks and mandatory waiting periods (and raising the buying age and banning the production of high-capacity magazines) are the ways to stop shootings in America.
http://www.charlottenewsvt.org/2018/03/21/ban-military-style-assault-weapons-sake-children/
The Charlotte News: Ban military-style assault weapons for the sake of our children
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9454161/gun-violence-solution
Vox: What no politician wants to admit about gun control “taking a huge number of guns away from a huge number of gun owners
http://www.naacp.org/latest/opinion-gun-safety-freedom/
NAACP President OPINION: Gun Safety Is about Freedom [Australian style gun confiscation – making gun owners an offer they can’t refuse ]
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/02/25/maine-voices-yes-we-want-to-take-away-your-guns-the-case-for-civilian-disarmament/
Maine Voices: Yes, we want to take away your guns
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/27/robinson-dont-let-the-absurd-ploy-to-arm-teachers-distract-you/
Mercury News – Eugene Robinson
Robinson: Arming teachers is absurd — ban military-style assault rifles
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/02/22/want-to-end-gun-violence-mr-president-get-rid-of-guns.html
The Star: Want to end gun violence Mr. President? Get rid of guns
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-skelton-florida-shooting-gun-control-20180219-story.html
La Times: No one becomes a mass shooter without a mass-shooting gun
https://www.designmom.com/a-gun-ban-is-inevitable/
It’s Too Late. You’ve Lost Your Guns.
2017
https://splinternews.com/ban-guns-1820487148
Splinter news: BAN GUNS
https://www.redhawksonline.com/2017/11/13/las-vegas-shooting-response-keep-or-eliminate-guns/
Redhawks Online: Guns must go
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/11/10/hand-over-your-weapons/6IxJLanMKGak7RvCLipwbN/story.html
Boston Globe: Hand over your weapons
https://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/2017/11/10/renew-ban-military-style-assault-weapons/851942001/
News-Press – USA Today Editorial Board: Renew ban on military-style assault weapons
https://crooked.com/article/bring-gun-fight/
Dan Pfeiffer: What to Bring to the Gun Fight [national gun registry, Tracking and limiting purchases of ammunition and a national gun buyback program]
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/354513-eugene-robinson-gun-control-should-include-buyback-program-like-australias
Eugene Robinson: Gun control should include buyback program like Australia’s
https://www.mediaite.com/online/washington-post-editorial-board-calls-on-trump-to-pass-gun-control-end-this-american-carnage/
Washington Post Editorial Board Calls on Trump to Pass Gun Control: ‘End This American Carnage’
[Members of The Washington Post Editorial Board]
https://theweek.com/articles/729108/ban-guns
The Week: Ban guns
https://planamag.com/ban-guns-amend-the-constitution-a9c288c20965?gi=aede7377ca64
Plan A Magazine: Ban Guns. Amend the Constitution.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/03/opinions/ban-semiautomatic-weapons-and-save-lives-sachs/
(CNN) Sachs: Ban semiautomatic assault weapons and save lives
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/for-gods-sake-america-just-ban-guns
Prospect magazine: Dear America: it’s time to grow up and ban guns
2016
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/needed-domestic-disarmame_b_8739712.html
Huffington Post: Domestic Disarmament, Not ‘Gun Control’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/assault-weapons-must-be-banned/2016/06/13/0d6a58f4-3195-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?
Washington Post – Eugene Robinson: Assault weapons must be banned in America
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/08/opinions/bell-obama-guns/index.html
W. Kamau Bell [CNN]: I want Obama to take away your guns
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-nelson/cant-we-just-put-the-damn_b_8939952.html
Huffington post: Can’t We Just Put the Damn Guns Down?
http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/c/35496/f/677045/s/4cb82e24/sc/27/l/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0C20A160C0A10C0A70Canderson0Ecooper0Eguns0Econspiracy0In0I8936530A0Bhtml/story01.htm
Anderson Cooper:“Speaking only for myself, watching Obama get repeatedly accused of wanting to take people’s guns away makes me sort of wish he’d just do something to earn that accusation. May as well!”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/07/president-obama-isn-t-taking-people-s-guns-but-maybe-he-should.html
The Daily Beast: President Obama Isn’t Taking People’s Guns—But Maybe He Should.
2015
https://newrepublic.com/article/125498/its-time-ban-guns-yes-them
New Republic: It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html
The New York Times: End the Gun Epidemic in America
[First Front Page Editorial In 95 Years] This editorial published on A1 in the Dec. 5 edition of The New York Times. It is the first time an editorial has appeared on the front page since 1920.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/yes-they-want-to-take-your-guns-away
The Daily Beast: Yes, They Want to Take Your Guns Away
http://www.c-span.org/video/?328774-1/hillary-clinton-town-hall-meeting-keene-new-hampshire&start=2831
Hillary Clinton: “In the Australian example, as I recall, that was a buyback program.”…..“I think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level”
href=”https://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9455025/us-gun-violence
Vox: Becoming a gun-free society would be hard. But we should still try.
href=”https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/5/1427845/-Effective-Gun-Control-A-National-Semi-Auto-Ban
Daily Kos: Effective Gun Control – A National Semi-Auto Ban
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gun-free-society/2015/10/04/6da29040-69c4-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html
Washington Post: A gun-free society
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/01/statement-president-shootings-umpqua-community-college-roseburg-oregon
Obama: “We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.”
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/columnists/ensley/2014/11/22/stop-insanity-ban-guns/19426029/
Tallahassee Democrat – Stop the insanity: Ban guns
2014
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/10/remarks-president-qa-david-karp-ceo-tumblr
Obama:;A couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting similar to Columbine or Newtown. And Australia just said, well, that’s it — we’re not seeing that again. And basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-gun-control-ban-homicides-suicides-20140528-story.html
La Times: You say gun control doesn’t work? Fine. Let’s ban guns altogether.
2013
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/gun-control-we-need-domes_b_2718536.html
Huffington Post: Gun Control? We Need Domestic Disarmament
2012
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/12/21/1172661/-How-to-Ban-Guns-A-step-by-step-long-term-process
Daily Kos: How to Ban Guns: A step by step, long term process
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/nyregion/cuomo-says-he-will-outline-gun-measures-next-month.html?_r=1&
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo: “Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it.”
href=”https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/ban-all-guns-now/Content?oid=2147131
Detroit Metro Times: Ban all guns, now
href=”https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/why-gun-control-is-not-enough/
Opinionator – New York Times: Why Gun ‘Control’ Is Not Enough
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/273753-house-dem-calls-on-people-to-turn-in-your-guns
House Dem: ‘Turn in your guns’
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/first-get-rid-of-the-guns/
Eugene Robinson: First, Get Rid of the Guns
https://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2012/12/gun-control
Economist The gun control that works: no guns
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/get-rid-of-the-damn-guns_b_1694753.html
Huffington Post: Get Rid of the Damn Guns
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/24/1077374/-Yes-conservatives-we-want-to-take-away-your-guns
Yes conservatives, we want to take away your guns…
2011
https://tucson.com/news/opinion/editorial/reinstate-ban-on-military-style-assault-weapons/article_d2687749-92aa-5d92-93bf-475d1beea35b.html
Arizona Daily Star: Reinstate ban on military-style assault weapons
1993
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-28/local/me-6058_1_gun-violence
La Times – Taming the Monster: Get Rid of the Guns
Looks like someone updated David Burkhead’s old list.
https://thewriterinblack.com/2017/05/17/nobody-wants-to-take-your-guns-2/