Gun Control Quotes - Page 14

• Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

  Andy Borowitz

  Gun, Dreamer, Wish

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• Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Crazy, Gun

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Dec 18, 2012

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• For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gun, Thug, Ems

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• When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Gun, Devil

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.5108, Delphi Classics

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• You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

  Mary McGrory

  Gun, Population, Needs

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• I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.

  Hugo Black

  Gun, Thinking, Rights

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• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Muggers, Never Forget

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• Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Country, Gun, Rifles

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• I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

  Hugh Downs

  Gun, Wind, People

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• I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

  Mark Twain

  Forgiveness, Death, Suicide

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• As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

  Juan Williams

  Gun, Keys, Political

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• Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

  Jesse Ventura

  Gun, Mexico, Strict

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Strong, Gun

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• As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hope, Gun, Thinking

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• There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Gun, Spoons, World

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Children, Gun

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• The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Gun, Thinking

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Gun, Important

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.167, Algora Publishing

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• We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

  Gloria Estefan

  Country, Children, Gun

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• Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

  Jeff Cooper

  Inspirational, Guitar, Owning A Home

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• In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Gun, Abortion

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- A Statesman And a Man Of Faith / With a lifetime of public service to his credit, the former president reflects on the beliefs that have sustained him". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. January 12, 1997.

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• We must get rid of all the guns.

  Sarah Brady

  Gun

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• Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

  Jen Lancaster

  Gun, Yankees, Issues

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• You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Gun, Men, Thinking

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". Interview with Rachel Martin and Mike Pesca, www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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