Gun Control Quotes - Page 7

• How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.

  Suzanna Hupp

  Taken, Gun, Government

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• Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Aggravation, Second Amendment

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Gun, Strong Arms

  "The writings of Thomas Jefferson".

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• Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Gun, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Freedom, Independent, Gun

  "Know Your Lawmaker". Guns magazine, p. 4, February 1960.

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• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mistake, Gun, People

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• All power is inherent in the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Strong Arms, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.404

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• Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gun, Lunch, Democracies Have

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• You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Second Amendment, Firsts

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• We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Ronald Reagan's Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 31, 1968.

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• The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Rights, Second Amendment

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• Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Integrity, Gun, Doubt

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• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

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• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Mean, Gun, People

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• A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.

  Charley Reese

  Gun, Government, Opposites

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• Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.

  J. Neil Schulman

  Gun, Rights, Government

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• If it were up to me we'd ban them all.

  Mel Reynolds

  Gun, Bans, Ifs

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• What good does it do to ban some guns. All guns should be banned.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Gun, Doe, Bans

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• I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

  John Chafee

  Gun, Law, Clubs

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• We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

  Barack Obama

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.

  Steven Milloy

  Gun, Political, Research

  "Gun Control Science Misfires" by Steven Milloy, www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2002.

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• A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

  James Madison

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

  James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott (1999). “The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.690, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Jail, Ifs

  "Ted Nugent tells NRA crowd to turn up "the heat" on guns" by Daniel Lovering, www.reuters.com. May 1, 2011.

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• If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

  Charley Reese

  Believe, Mean, Gun

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• A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.

  John Adams

  Wise, Country, Men

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.199

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