Thomas Sowell Quotes About Guns

Quotes about: Guns

• As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hope, Gun, Thinking

• The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving Up, Angel, Fighting

• If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Civilization, Use

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

• When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.

  Thomas Sowell

  New York, Gun, Thinking

  "Random Thoughts". capitalismmagazine.com. August 25, 2008.

• The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Gun, Mass Shootings

• The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can 'make a statement' by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?

  Thomas Sowell

  Book, Hypocrite, Ghetto

• The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Keys, Law

  "The great gun control fallacy" by Thomas Sowell, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2012.

• Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Strong, Gun

• The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Order, People

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

• An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Availability, Florida

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