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• Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Mean, Dark

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• For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

  Niger Innis

  Gun, Humanity, Black

  "Black conservatives: Gun control has ‘racist’ roots" by Nicholas Ballasy, dailycaller.com. February 22, 2013.

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• Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

  Charley Reese

  Gun, Criminals, Crowds

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• I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.

  Sheldon Richman

  Gun, Rights, People

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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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• Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Gun, Men

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• I am totally for gun control in the U.S. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day we're seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobby's response to Newtown was? The National Rifle Association's official response was, 'If that teacher had been armed' It's crazy.

  Liam Neeson

  Running, Country, Teacher

  "Liam Neeson interview: Hard man actor on Bono, Ralph Fiennes and his fear of guns". Interview with Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. September 12, 2014.

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• Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

  Don Kates

  Gun, Police, Arms

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• I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.

  Charles Barkley

  Gun, Hunting, People

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• There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Gun, Hands, Political

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• We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no pastors on the other side testifying against gun control... I had to literally open up my Bible and read scripture to these pastors in a hearing in Olympia. A politician had to read scripture to pastors.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Gun, Insightful

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• I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands.

  Rick Perry

  Gun, Hands, Use

  "American Morning" with Deborah Feyerick and Alina Cho, www.cnn.com. December 29, 2011.

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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, Gun, Law

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

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• Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

  Niger Innis

  Gun, Keys, America

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• The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

  Rory Miller

  Gun, People, Evil

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• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, America, Citizens

  "CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendment Almost Killed Gabby Giffords". www.newsbusters.org. May 19, 2011.

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• Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Government, Culture

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• We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Government, Historical

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.320, Penguin

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• There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

  Debi Mazar

  Hero, Passion, Gun

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Gun, Evil, Disgraceful

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.46, Knickerbocker Classics

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• I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Interview with Playboy, January 1988.

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• Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

  Mark Levin

  Gun, Oklahoma, Used

  "Top 12 Quotes About Gun Control After Newtown, Conn. Shooting" by Susanna Kim, abcnews.go.com. December 17, 2012.

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• America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.

  Brad Pitt

  Country, Feel Better, Gun

  "'I want her approval. Angie is a force... I want her to be proud of her man': Brad Pitt on guns, violence and THAT wedding". Interview with Martyn Palmer, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 8, 2012.

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