Concealed Carry Quotes

• If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, Murder, States

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• If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business.

  David Prosser, Jr.

  Mean, Gun, Bears

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• I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Atmosphere

  "Candidates' gun control positions may figure in Pa. vote" by Mike Wereschagin and David M. Brown, triblive.com. April 2, 2008.

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• If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.

  Gary Johnson

  Believe, Gun, Law

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• Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, Law, Cities

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• In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.

  Ann Coulter

  Gun, Law, America

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• A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

  John Abbott

  Gun, Encounters, Might

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• It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who is not, and when their intended victim shoots back it hurts their feelings - along with other things.

  Jeff Cooper

  Hurt, Gun, Feelings

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• I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

  Barack Obama

  Records, Concealed, Opposing

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• I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.

  Garry McCarthy

  Gun, Fire, Hands

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• Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, Commitment, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 14, 2013

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• If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Gun, Order, Giving

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Self, Guy

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2014.

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• The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Statistics, Tone

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.2, Crown Forum

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• I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.

  John Thune

  New York, Central Park, Parks

  "John Thune vs. Central Park UPDATE". www.politico.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.

  Howard Coble

  Borders, Permit, States

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• The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.

  Jeff Cooper

  Baseball, Kids, Gun

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