Gun Control Quotes - Page 2

• A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

  Larry Elder

  Gun, Roots, Demand

  FaceBook post by Larry Elder from Dec 04, 2015

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  The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Strong Arms, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.458, Penguin

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• We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

  Charles Schumer

  Gun, Hammers, Anvils

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• People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

  L. Neil Smith

  Men, Animal, Gun

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

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• The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Gun, Second Amendment, Citizens

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• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Gun, Criminals, Libertarian

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• To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Mind, World

  Ted Nugent (2000). “God, guns, and rock 'n' roll”, Regnery Press

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• In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms... If anyone entertained this notion in the period during which the Constitution and Bill of Rights were debated and ratified, it remains one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 18th century, for no known writing surviving from the period between 1787 and 1791 states such a thesis.

  Stephen Halbrook

  Writing, Gun, Rights

  "That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right". Book by Stephen Halbrook, 1984.

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• No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

  William Rawle

  Gun, People, Giving

  William Rawle (1829). “A view of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.125

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• We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

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• Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

  Thomas Paine

  Gun, Order, Law

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

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• The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

  Louise Slaughter

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Moving, Gun

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• I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

  George Mason

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Gun, Thinking, Should Have

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• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

  Patrick Henry

  Real, Gun, Differences

  Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention, on June 09, 1788. "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution". Book edited by Jonathan Elliot, volume 3, p. 168-169, 1836.

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  The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Strong Arms, People

  Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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• The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.

  Benito Mussolini

  Gun, Numbers, Government

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Society, May

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

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• I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Gun, Care, Want

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• Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.

  Joe Biden

  Gun, Fire, Doors

  "The F&S Gun Rights Interviews: Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States". Interview with Anthony Licata, www.fieldandstream.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Gun, Men, Strong Arms

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• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Freedom, Weapons, Socialism

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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