Gun Quotes - Page 15

• Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Christian, War, Thinking

  "America Undercover (Left of the Dial)". TV Series, March 31, 2005.

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• We have not found any smoking guns.

  Hans Blix

  Smoking, Found

  News conference, New York, N.Y., 9 Jan. 2003

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• If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman... Don't pray. Learn to use guns.

  Ann Coulter

  Kids, Use, Praying

  Ann Coulter's remarks on Heath High School shooting on "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, December 18, 1997.

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• It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  "U of O Speech Cancelled". Ottawa Citizen, March 24, 2010.

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• Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.

  Harry Chapin

  Nice, Eye, Skins

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

  Wesley Clark

  Army, Assault Weapons, People

  "CNN Crossfire", transcripts.cnn.com. June 25, 2003.

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• To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

  Tommy Douglas

  Accepting, Barrels, Principal

  Tommy Douglas' speech at Luther College in Regina, Saskatchewan, March 16, 1973.

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

  Alex Garland

  Powerful, Years, Impact

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• Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Different

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.

  David Brooks

  Who I Am, Expression, Differences

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 21, 2015.

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• It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

  Lauren Ambrose

  Dream, Horse, War

  Source: collider.com

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• I do sense that the financial system is under the gun. In order to keep our system and economies moving globally, there's the need to extend new money.

  Henry Kaufman

  Moving, Order, Needs

  Interview with Hobart Rowen, www.washingtonpost.com. January 2, 1983.

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• We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Bridges, Drug

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• I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Hands, Law

  George W. Bush at the third Presidential Debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of police; the latitude to act reasonably, to act immediately, to act in defense of self, to act in defense of another, to act with lethal force, to act with her acquired training and to act not in anger but to respond in purpose. To exercise the protections of that latitude in public policy, public interest and practical safety, all that is demanded of her is that she act reasonably under the circumstances.

  John Longenecker

  Exercise, Self, Safety

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• Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.

  Prince

  Girlfriend, Fun, Home

  Song: Sign O' the Times

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• Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dignity, Violent

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• condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

  Peter Kreeft

  Twenties, Four, Roulette

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.66, Ignatius Press

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• The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

  Alan Keyes

  Self, Law, Enforcement

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

  Alan Keyes

  Assault Weapons, Doing Nothing, Way

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?

  Dennis Kucinich

  Stars, Mass Destruction, Hands

  Congressional Record, Volume 151, Part 8, May 19, 2005.

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• So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.

  Dan Savage

  Gun Owners, Owners, Seems

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.185, Penguin

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• Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.

  L. Neil Smith

  Teacher, Kids, Exercise

  "Murder by Gun Control". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 31, 2000.

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• Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a populace is much easier to herd, loot and dispose of if it has been stripped of its weapons. The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.

  L. Neil Smith

  Law, Government, Leader

  "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. October 18, 2009.

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