Can you guess what all this talk, talk, talk about gun control is doing?

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72. There are quite a few links to that quote, all of which refer to an interview on PBS.

See here:
http://www.lclark.edu/live/files/772 pg 358, as the best source I have found (without locating the actual transcript or seeing the DVD).

Assuming the person who wrote this would not mis-quote a transcript they supposedly provide the source for:


"In a PBS television interview in 1991 marking the two hundredth anniversary of ratification of the Bill of Rights, Burger commented: “If I were writing the Bill of Rights now there wouldn’t be any such thing as the Second Amendment . . . . This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word ‘fraud,’ on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. Now just look at those words. There are only three lines to that amendment. A well regulated militia—if the militia, which was going to be the state army, was going to be well regulated, why shouldn’t 16 and 17 and 18 or any other age persons be regulated in the use of arms the way an automobile is regulated? It’s got to be registered, that you can’t just deal with at will. . . . I don’t want to get sued for slander, but I repeat that they [the NRA] . . . have had far too much influence on the Congress of the United States than as a citizen I would like to see—and I am a gun man. I have guns. I have been a hunter ever since I was a boy.”

MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour: Interview by Charlayne Hunter-Gault with Warren Burger (PBS television broadcast, Dec. 16, 1991) (Monday transcript # 4226), available at http://www.lexisnexis.com (News Library, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer File) (quoted in UVILLER & MERKEL, supra note 9, at 13)."