Gun Quotes - Page 9

• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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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, Issues, Land

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

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• Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Citizens, Surprise, Crime

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• Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Moving, Law

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• Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

  Earl Warren

  Rights, People, Desire

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• Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

  L. Neil Smith

  People, Second Amendment, Firsts

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• You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.

  Charlton Heston

  Assault Weapons, People, Second Amendment

  Fox News Channel Interview, September 15, 1997.

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• Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun used by Martin Bryant in Port Arthur was stolen and he had no licence. Gun laws would not have stopped that, but the reason such laws are being introduced all over the world is to prevent the population from defending themselves when the order goes out to round up those who are challenging the Agenda.

  David Icke

  Order, Law, Challenges

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• 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

  Availability, Florida, Car

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• Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'!

  L. Neil Smith

  Home, House, Weapons

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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• An armed man need not fight.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Men, Needs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

  Joe Biden

  Ideas, Gun Control, Gun Rights

  Interview to Associated Press, www.nwitimes.com. November 18, 1993.

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• ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.

  Don Kates

  Law, People, Abuse

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• A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Opposites, People

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• The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!

  Dean Armstrong

  Chinese, Hussein, Nazi

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• Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not keep Hennard from coming in and killing everybody! What it did do, was keep me from protecting my family! That's the only thing that cotton pickin' law did! OK! Understand that! That's ...that's so important!

  Suzanna Hupp

  Law, Important, Cotton

  "Hi Mark, your mention of Waco" by John Robie, www.cnet.com. April 17, 2007.

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• I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

  Phil Gramm

  Needs, Want, Gun Control

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• It would be devastating for America if Donald Trump won, and it would be devastating for the anti-gun-violence movement. But we would be on a long list of progressive causes that would be shattered by a Trump win.

  Chris Murphy

  Winning, America, Long

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• I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Killing, Knows, Living Things

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• If we were living back in 1789, your musket would be really useful in a military conflict. If you were called up to service, they said bring your musket. And indeed, the First Congress passed a law. You want to know the first gun control law in America? First Congress passed a law mandating that all able-bodied men must own a musket.

  Ted Cruz

  Military, Men, Law

  Source: time.com

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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, Law, Cities

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• The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.

  Richard Ford

  Children, Support, Killing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent is now a symbol of benevolence and concern for a child's well-being.

  James Bovard

  Children, Media, Hands

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• If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.

  Penn Jillette

  Dope, People, Convince

  "Can Journalists Be Objective? Will Election Machines Fail?". "The Glenn Beck Program", transcripts.cnn.com. November 2, 2006.

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