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• If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Children, Home, Gun

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• No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Escaping, Population

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• My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.

  Roseanne Barr

  Kids, Weekend, Fifteen

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• There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, Able, Internet

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• A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Gun, Men, America

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• I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.

  Will Patton

  Gun, Careers, Get Better

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• Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Gun, Games

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

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• We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Rights, America

  John Steinbeck (2009). “Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team”, p.31, Penguin

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• An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Long, Chance

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.

  Thomas Paine

  Strong, Gun, Weak Will

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide the firearms that will continue to be procured with criminal intent.

  Don Kates

  Gun, House, Regulation

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• No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Gun, Alaska, Ak 47

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• There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later.

  Kim Campbell

  Gun, Thinking, Levels

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• The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Gun, Weapons, Bearing Arms

  "The Weapon Shop". "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" Magazine, December 1942.

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• There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence

  Kim Campbell

  Gun, Impact, Needs

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• Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it

  Jean Chretien

  Children, Home, Play

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• During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times, and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives.

  John R. Lott Jr.

  Gun, Israel, Terror Attacks

  "John Lott: Should a Web Site Post Best Ideas for Successful Terrorist Plots?". www.foxnews.com. August 14, 2007.

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• If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

  Don DeLillo

  Destiny, Names, World

  Don DeLillo (1991). “Libra”, p.125, Penguin

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• It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Cutting, Doubt

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• Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Might, Bans, Wells

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• I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody

  Giuliano Zaccardelli

  Believe, Hands, Should

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• The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

  Wayne LaPierre

  "The 25 'Best' Quotes of CPAC 2011" by Roy Edroso, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2011.

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• We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

  William J. Clinton

  Gun, Rights, Government

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.223, Best Books on

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• A society without firearms is, in the end, a society of dim-witted, collectivist bean farmers.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Ends, Beans, Farmers

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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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