Gun Control Quotes - Page 19

• The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty.

  Don Kates

  Philosophical, Gun, Self

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• Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.

  Annie Oakley

  Eye, Gun, Practice

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

  Phil Gramm

  Gun, Needs, Want

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• Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.

  Garry Wills

  Gun, Citizens, Civilized Society

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• I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

  Mitt Romney

  Gun, Support, Legislation

  "President Obama Has Only Ever Signed Gun Laws That Expand Owners' Rights" by Patrick Jonsson, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2012.

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• When the new gun booklet was recently mailed to all licensed shooters, 20% were returned as 'not known at this address.

  Tony Lauer

  Gun, Addresses, Shooter

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• Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit... And Mayor Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.

  Don Gonyea

  Believe, Struggle, Gun

  "As Caucus Day Nears, Trump And Cruz Make Big Push In Iowa". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 23, 2016.

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• To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Country, Children, Gun

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• Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

  John Adams

  Life, Nature, Gun

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.438

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• We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame.

  Robert Carson

  Gun, Safety, Information

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• These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.

  Amanda Vanstone

  Gun, Law, Creation

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• It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

  Si Robertson

  Gun, Needs, Sin

  "Redneck, Inc: The Duck Dynasty Story". Interview with Erik Hedegaard, www.mensjournal.com. October 5, 2013.

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