If you wanted to create a system that is basically legal but designed — Tom Diaz

"You have drastically increased the ability to inflict death and injury. That means you can shoot more rounds faster and easier, what they call spray and pray."

"Given the development of a whole sniper culture over the past 10 years, it was almost inevitable that some deranged person or a terrorist was going to be drawn in to acting out the sniper mentality. The snipers motto is, One shot, one kill. Thats what this guy has been doing right here around our nations capital...In order to rejuvenate its sales, the gun industry has gone out and marketed sniper rifles."

"The gun industry offloads tremendous costs onto people who dont use its products, like a polluter dumping on a city, so its good to force people to realize what these costs are."

"I was shocked at what I found. The snipers motto is one shot, one kill. There are schools that teach civilians how to do this."

"These are ideal weapons of terrorist attack."

"The smart gun is a hoax. Its a very seductive hoax, but nevertheless its a hoax. At bottom, this is a ploy, a very clever ploy, by the gun industry to use your tax dollars and my tax dollars to expand its markets. Youll never be able to come up with a system thats going to make handguns safe, to make handguns go away, until we say, Weve got an industry that pours onto our markets millions of deadly, lethal killing instruments. And weve got to stop that. I feel that the smart gun ultimately will take more lives…than it will save."