Nra Quotes

• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Guy, Important

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• NRA - Nuts Running America.

  Huey Long

  Running, Government, Nuts

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• The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

  Michael Moore

  Children, Hate, Home

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• I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

  William J. Clinton

  Gun, Support, Position

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• Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

  Wayne LaPierre

  School, Gun, Law

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

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• To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Gun, Strong Arms, People

  Richard Henry Lee (1978). “Letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican”, Univ of Alabama Pr

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• The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

  Frank Zappa

  Politics, Praying, Fingers

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• My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

  Elayne Boosler

  Gun, Thinking, America

  "Yuo Cant Take Away My Gun Rites, Idiott" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

  John F. Kerry

  Naacp, Candidates

  "Dems battle over Confederate flag". www.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.

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• The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

  John T. Flynn

  America, Association, Authority

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• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Bills, Size

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• But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, United States, Joining

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• These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

  John T. Flynn

  Quality, Etc, Authority

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• I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

  John Dingell

  Taken, Thinking, May

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• You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets!...Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Gun, Reality

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• By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

  Dana Milbank

  Gun, Law, Doubt

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• I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.

  Mitt Romney

  Support, Sometimes, Disagree

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• The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

  Adolphus Busch

  Gun, Owners, Ammunition

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• I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.

  Eric Holder

  People, Common Sense, Looks

  "CBS Evening News" with Katie Couric, www.fantasy.theshowbuzz.com. April 8, 2009.

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• The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It's like a septic tank saying, 'You need a mint.'

  Bill Maher

  Crazy, Kids, Gun

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• Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.

  Mike Royko

  Pain, Gun, Law

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• We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.

  Charles Schumer

  Gun, Nightmare, Bearing Arms

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• Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Strong, Gun

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, America, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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