# Bill Clinton Quote on Guns - Involves the Hitler Quote **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 18, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094 "2004-06-18T19:06:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/1 "2004-06-18T19:06:17Z")
Is the following quote really something Bill Clinton said: > [@](#): > > Our police are hampered by the lack of full gun registration! We need to follow the lead of other civilized nations in securing our streets! Googling it just seems to bring up pages that also mention the following false quote from Hitler: > [@](#): > > This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future! So, it the Bill Clinton quote real or is it as fake as the Hitler quote? [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhitlergun.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhitlergun.html) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/2 "2004-06-18T19:13:29Z")
I don’t recall his trying to register firearms when he was Governor… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/3 "2004-06-18T22:33:08Z")
It’s unlikely that Clinton said that. The US, at the time, had tighter gun rules than most nations. Because Clinton, for most of his tenure, had little control over congress, he knew better than to thumb his nose at the powerful gun lobby. Mind you, the NRA always claimed he was aching to take away all the guns, but it wasn’t true. He didn’t have the power. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/4 "2004-06-18T23:35:17Z")
The fact that Google can’t dig up anything close to a credible cite tells me it’s bogus. That, and the speech pattern doesn’t really jive with Clinton’s oratory. It doesn’t “sound” like something he’d say, at least in those words. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/5 "2004-06-19T00:45:48Z")
There was a picture in the local AR paper of his duck hunting with a bunch of guys here. Standing around holding shotguns. They got one duck. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/6 "2004-06-19T00:56:01Z")
It got a lot of play over on Usenet in 1995. First post was on a militia board. ---
**Author:** ![Gest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Gest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gest)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/7 "2004-06-19T02:22:53Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > The US, at the time, had tighter gun rules than most nations. At what time was that? I can’t think of any country, under the rule of law, with less restrictions on guns than America. As for the OP, is it possible Clinton was talking about the Gun Control Act of 1968 while he was at university? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-quote-on-guns-involves-the-hitler-quote/251094/8 "2004-06-19T03:19:18Z")
> [@Gest](#): > > I can’t think of any country, under the rule of law, with less restrictions on guns than America. Does Iraq count? We’re limiting them to one AK 47 per household. Maybe the qualifier is that ‘under the rule of law’ phrase. 🙂