Gun Owners Quotes

• I don't believe gun owners have rights.

  Sarah Brady

  Believe, Gun, Rights

  "Sarah Brady a key player in gun 'wars'" by Holly Yeager, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 1997.

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• The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.

  James Madison

  Ambition, Simple, Government

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.192

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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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• 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. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Society, May

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Cold, Fingers

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• The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

  Harry Browne

  Hurt, Responsibility, Gun

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• Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

  Gary Kleck

  Gun, Criminals, Population

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• But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

  Antonin Scalia

  Believe, Gun, Hands

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• If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. You'd use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I've been watching too many Bruce Willis movies!

  Bruce Willis

  Fighting, Gun, Rocks

  "Willis Speaks Out For Guns", www.contactmusic.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.

  Dave Kopel

  New York, Gun, Ideas

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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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• We're not interested in confiscating their guns, as long as they are legitimate gun owners, as long as they store them appropriately, transport them appropriately and so on...

  Anne McLellan

  Gun, Long, Stores

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• Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Gun, Order, Want

  "Surgeon General’s Warning" by Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

  Joe Manchin

  Gun, Law, People

  "Joe Manchin Ready For Gun Control Action: ‘Everything Should Be On The Table’" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Use, Way

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• The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Gun, People, Majority

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• Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

  Jan Brewer

  Gun, Ninety Nine, People

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• Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.

  Ilana Mercer

  Mean, Gun, Self

  "Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer". praag.org. November 25, 2013.

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• A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

  Patrick Leahy

  Gun, People, Vermont

  "State of the Union", www.realclearpolitics.com. February 24, 2013.

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• Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

  Martin Heinrich

  Real, Gun, Law

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• I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Rights, Law

  "Washington Navy Yard Massacre — The Aftermath" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

  Bruce Willis

  Gun, People, Guy

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• Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.

  Grover Norquist

  Art, Children, Book

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