Ban the Guns? 🚫🙅‍♀️ #RonaldReagan 1984 * #PITD #Shorts (Linked)

#RonaldReagan 1984 23rd Press Conference in the East Room * #PITD April 4, 1984 Q. Well, sir, if I could just follow up, I understand your disappointment in the Senate debate and the vote, but I guess what I’m trying to ask you is why are the public opinion polls a valid argument for the school prayer amendment, which you do favor, and not a valid argument for the handgun control and the nuclear freeze issues which you do not? The President. Well, there are methods of handling it. I have always preferred a different method with regard to handguns, and one that we used in California. In California, knowing that the wrong people would probably never have any problem getting a gun and the law-abiding citizen would be denied the right to have one, we simply passed a law that said that anyone who commits a crime, is convicted of a crime and had in his or her possession a gun at the time of the commission of the crime, whether they used it or not, add 5 to 15 years to the sentence by virtue of their having carried -- or carried a gun in the commission of a crime. You’d be surprised how effective it became. #GunControl #GunBan #FirearmRestrictions