Wayne LaPierre Quotes

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• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Guy, Important

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Media, Games

  he Truth About Video "Games and Gun Violence" by Erik Kain, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2013.

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• The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Firearms

  "The 25 'Best' Quotes of CPAC 2011" by Roy Edroso, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2011.

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• First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns
  in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se
  curity personnel.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Zero, Believe, School

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• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Children, School, Gun

  "NRA: 'Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Peter Overby, www.npr.org. December 21, 2012.

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• Laws can't control the lawless.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Law, Gun Control

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• I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Thinking, President, Levels

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Law, People, Abiding

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Thinking, Gun, Criminals

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.

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• When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Issues, Criminals, Honest

  "NRA: More Gun Control Not A Serious Proposal" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Needs, Able, Protect

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

  Wayne LaPierre

  Country, Games, People

  Wayne LaPierre's Speech after the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, hollywoodlife.com. December 21, 2012.

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• We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Drug, Style

  "Stand and Fight" by Wayne LaPierre, dailycaller.com. February 13, 2013.

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• All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Second Amendment, Voters

  "NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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• We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Brother, Wall, America

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• The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Brother, Wall, Storm

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• How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

  Wayne LaPierre

  Wall, Media, Wings

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

  Wayne LaPierre

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• Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Law, Criminals, Attention

  "U.S. freedoms not to blame for Mexico's drug war" by Wayne LaPierre, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2009.

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Darkness, Despair

  "GOP hopefuls couldn't stop talking about Hillary Clinton at this NRA event" by Erik Schelzig, www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

  Wayne LaPierre

  School, Gun, Law

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Graffiti, Principles, Constitution

  "NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.

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• The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Sides, Republican, Ownership

  "Gun lobby targets Gore, Democrats" by Wolf Blitzer, Brian Cabell, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2000.

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• Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Freedom, Light, Liberty

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• Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Believe, San Francisco, Common Sense

  "NRA to File Suit Against San Francisco Gun Ban". www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.

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