Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “There is no reason for anyone in this country -- anyone except a police officer or military person -- to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun. The only way to control handgun use in this country is to prohibit the guns.” ~ Bill Clinton [William Jefferson Blythe III] (1946- ), 42nd US PresidentSource: No source found for quote. Supposedly spoken while signing the Brady Bill, 1993Most likely a quote by Michael Gartner (then president of NBC News), Glut of Guns: What Can We Do About Them?, USA Today, Jan. 16, 1992, at 9A