A look at some of Rudolph W. Giuliani's statements on gun control between 1993 and 2007: Dec. 12, 1993 "(Handgun licensing) is not going to stop crime, and there's no question that a lot more has to be done about it than gun control and gun licensing. What it will do is reduce some of the damage. In the 1950s in New York, 19 percent of the homicides were by firearm. That's now up to 75 percent, and the most-often-used weapon now for homicide in New York — and this is... (GunPolicy.org)