Firearms Quotes - Page 6

• Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.

  Kate O'Beirne

  Squares, Religion, Excess

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• The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.

  Sheila Fraser

  Dark, Gun, Issues

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• Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.

  Cody Wilson

  Gun, Government, People

  "Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel". www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2015.

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• I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.

  Sheila Fraser

  Alternatives, Cost, Watches

  "Ottawa hid huge costs of gun plan, audit finds". www.theglobeandmail.com. December 4, 2002.

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• Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Blessing, Bayonets

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• Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries.

  E. J. Dionne

  Country, Gun, Law

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• Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Law, People, Abiding

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all guns? For the life of me, I can't. We must register our cars and be licensed to drive. In many places we must get licenses for dogs and even bicycles. Being required to register firearms and show the competence and capacity to handle them hardly seems unreasonable, hardly seems an infringement of freedom. What is it that blocks such legislation? Why do they block it? How are they able to block it?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Dog, Block, Gun

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• Being honest with you, if I would run into a situation where I'd have to pick up a firearm to save another child, would I? Absolutely! I wouldn't even think about it. I rescue people and feed people. I will do whatever I have to do, as long as it's within the law, to rescue a life.

  Sam Childers

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.

  St. George Tucker

  Army, Gun, Color

  William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.300, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

  John Adams

  Strength, Peace, Patriotic

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• The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.

  Antonin Scalia

  Attitude, Gun, People

  "Scalia: Guns Aren't Just for Crimes". www.foxnews.com. February 26, 2006.

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• It is a right to have a firearm to protect yourself. But it is not your right to be irresponsible. At the end of the day, it is not the gun that kills you, it is the irresponsible person that does.

  Tracy Martin

  Gun, Protect, Protect Yourself

  Source: time.com

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• It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

  Scott Adams

  Running, Government, Two

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• I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Thinking, People

  "Transcript: Clinton talks Orlando, Sanders, campaign with Telemundo". Interview With José Díaz-Balart, thehill.com. June 14, 2016.

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• That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

  John Adams

  Gun, Rights, Second Amendment

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• I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a firearm, that person should undergo an exhaustive criminal background check. In addition, an applicant should give up his right to privacy and submit his medical records for review to see if the person has ever had a problem with alcohol, drugs or mental illness... The Constitution doesn't count!

  John Silber

  Giving Up, Believe, Gun

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• Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

  Garry McCarthy

  Murder, Crime, Gateways

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• Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Gun, Men, Strong Arms

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• As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

  Charlton Heston

  War, Gun, Issues

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Giving, Alcohol, Shooting

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

  Steve Largent

  Gun, Answers, Crime

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• Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

  Frank Stock

  Funny, Rain, Climbing

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

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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