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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Fine, Rate

  Jeff Cooper (1998). “To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth”, p.172, Paladin Press

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• The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Home

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.

  Sitting Bull

  Son, Boys, Men

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• If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?

  Clint Smith

  Gun, People, Ridiculous

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Atheist, Fun

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• We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  Booker T. Washington

  Communication, Vocabulary, Pockets

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• The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

  John Sherman Cooper

  School, Texas, Police

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• So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun. "You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis." Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages. "Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.

  Pittacus Lore

  Girl, Jobs, Dark

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• I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Home, Gun

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• One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year. We are.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Years, Organization

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• Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200 years from now we all will be a beautiful cream color. He really believes it. One believe that gittin' some rifles and shootin' up the country is gonna solve it, another believes that education. One day we'll be the president. One believe that we gotta git into the white man's pockets and get all the money.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Country, Believe

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Apology, Way, Fruit

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• Make no mistake. This is a war on rural America. ... It is chilling to watch people who joined the military to defend American citizens point rifles on American soil at American citizens and women and children. A sniper rifle is not due process.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Children, Military

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• Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

  Winfield Scott

  Fire, Blood, Baptized In

  "The Life and Military and Civic Services of Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott". Book by Orville James Victor, p. 106, 1861.

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.... Pick up a rifle - a really good rifle - and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and - most significantly - from a subject to a citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Queens, Men, Weapons

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• Whoever can lift a rifle, should have one.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Should Have, Should, Lifts

  "Epoch's End". Book by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, translated from French by Hirendranath Mookherjee (p. 149), 1945.

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• We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.

  Johnny Depp

  Kids, Gun, Practice

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• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Mean, Hunting, Racing

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• For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Jobs, Mistake

  "Tastes Like Chicken". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 28, 2010.

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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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• I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.

  Chris Kyle

  Teaching, Kids, Son

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• Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

  Stephen King

  Home, Hunting, Night

  "Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Sight, Mind

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

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