Firearms Quotes - Page 5

• I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

  Gary Johnson

  Believe, Restriction, Should

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• The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed-and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits-would have been quite substantial.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Security Systems, Average, Airports

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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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• ... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

  Allan Rock

  Country, Use, Life Is

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• Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Skills, Littles, Sticks

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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 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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• 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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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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• It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Piano, Long

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• I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Thinking, Ordinary

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Table talk”

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• It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.

  Charlton Heston

  Hands, Monsters, Camels

  "Have Gun, Will Travel" By Margot Hornblower, www.cnn.com. July 6, 1998.

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• Guns aren't just a tool of last resort. They're awesome. That's why people stroke them. And name them, and take pictures with them. You guys aren't just firearm enthusiasts — you're ammosexuals. And before you try and deny you have some sort of unnatural romantic relationship with your gun, consider this. You're taking it out to dinner! Because it completes you. Get a room.

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Names, People

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• As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise I propose: Ban assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel. These weapons are made to kill humans and should be strictly limited. At the same time, allow responsible citizens to own rifles and shotguns. Rifles are for hunting big-game animals, shotguns are for hunting birds; non-automatic versions of these weapons should be available for those with an interest in hunting or target shooting.

  Nick Symmonds

  Military, Hunting, Animal

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• A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

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• The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Gun, Strong Arms

  "The writings of Thomas Jefferson".

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• Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Second Amendment, Mind Games

  "Jefferson: The face of the modern gun debate" by Christina Zdanowicz, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• All power is inherent in the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Strong Arms, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.404

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• The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

  Gregory Kane

  Impact, Law, Criminals

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• The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

  Tom McClintock

  Gun, Government, Debate

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• The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

  Joseph Story

  Gun, Liberty, Second Amendment

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.708

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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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• Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

  Ed Helms

  Alcohol, Causes, Conflict

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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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• 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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