Gun Quotes - Page 22

• We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

  Jerrold Nadler

  War, Mean, Hands

  "On Gun Control, Jerry Nadler Explains What Congress Could Do Right Now" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

  Charlie Melancon

  Pro Life, Louisiana, Democrat

  "Melancon Tacks Positive In New Ad: ‘I’m A Pro-Life, Pro-Gun Louisiana Democrat’" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Knowing, Would Be, Untimely Death

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• We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.

  T. J. Oshie

  Hate, Team, Chicago

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• The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  Kings, Law, Robert F Kennedy

  "Edward Snowden’s Real Impact" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2013.

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• The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

  Paul Theroux

  Four, Young, Worst

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• Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

  Alan Cranston

  America, Hatred, Navy

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• The more I hear of ban-the-gun legislation forming in Washington, and the more I hear it advocated from the editorial pulpit of the New York Times, the more I want my own .45 holstered within easy reach of this typewriter.

  Patrick Bedard

  New York, Typewriters, Want

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• In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

  William Safire

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Peace, War, Hands

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• Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Art, Entertainment, Sinking

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• Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Men, Necessary Use, Energy

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• I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.

  John Waters

  People, Criminals, Elements

  "An Evening With John Waters On Hitchhiking And Middle America". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kvpr.org. June 24, 2014.

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• When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

  Snoop Dogg

  Fighting, Boys, People

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. October 1995.

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• I think again we're way out of balance. We've got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Hillary Clinton on Guns: Not a Big Fan" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. April 13, 2015.

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• This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.

  Jim Goldberg

  Kids, Boys, San Francisco

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• Why would anybody not own a gun?

  Joe Manchin

  "USA TODAY survey: More Republicans in Congress own guns" by Paul Singer and Gregory Korte, www.usatoday.com. February 5, 2013.

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• More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

  James Langevin

  Kids, Community, Answers

  "Jim Langevin, Congressman Who Organized Gun Victims At SOTU, Was Victim Himself" by Samreen Hooda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

  Glenn Beck

  School, Virginia, Guarantees That

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to exploit the emotions of uninformed American people for political gain.

  Walter E. Williams

  Opportunity, Media, People

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• These are Gerald Celente's three Gs: gold, guns and a getaway plan.

  Gerald Celente

  Gold, Three, Getaways

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• While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

  Tony Blankley

  Boys, Cowboy, Practice

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• Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mother, Law, Jail

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• The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.

  Steven Adler

  Rose, Want, Life Is

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• Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

  Stockwell Day

  Responsibility, Police, Crime

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