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Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

Al Gore

Wine, Beer, Gun

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If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

L. Neil Smith

Children, Men, Average

"Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?". www.lneilsmith.org.

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If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.

Bob Costas

Live For Today, Alive, Nicole

"A gun control halftime show: Should Bob Costas have spoken out on Belcher suicide?" by Mallory Simon, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2012.

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Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

Josh Sugarmann

Gun, Law, Lax

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To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

Josh Sugarmann

Past, Gun, Assault Weapons

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The Pennsylvania Game Commission has charged a man with going deer hunting with a handgun in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He is being charged with reckless endangerment, but may plead guilty to the lesser charge of being a redneck.... Hunting in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's got to be some good eating a deer that lives on leftover Twizzlers and Mountain Dew.

Jay Leno

Redneck, Hunting, Men

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The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. Otherwise you may never become a mom.

Ann Coulter

Mom, Lying, Gun

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Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

Bob Costas

Teenage, Believe, Gun

"In KC, it’s no time for a game" by Jason Whitlock, www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?

Natalie Angier

Needs

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Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

Glenn Beck

School, Gun, Virginia

Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.

Jay Leno

Vocabulary, Issues, Tolerance

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I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Landgraf

Home, Thinking, Self

Source: collider.com

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Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

John Adams

Strength, Peace, Patriotic

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That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

John Adams

Gun, Rights, Second Amendment

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The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.

Scott Adams

Children, Future, Kids

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When I woke up in the morning and look in the mirror I realise that one of the reasons I don't own a handgun is, I would have shot my thighs off years ago.

Oprah Winfrey

Morning, Mirrors, Years

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A small handgun makes any TV remote control.

David Letterman

Tvs, Remote Control

David Letterman (1994). “Late Night Top Ten Lists”

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No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

Wyatt Earp

Wise, Fighting, Gun

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College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come.
We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

Dan Rather

College, Wish, Sides

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Because we allow handguns. When you know someone in the crowd might be packing a rod, it can't help but rush your timing.

Emo Philips

Crowds, Might, Helping

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I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.

Joycelyn Elders

Thinking, Should Have, Bullets

Source: www.motherjones.com

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I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic weapons of any kind should not be for sale in America. For that matter, toy Uzis should not be available for kids, either. There would be a minimum seven-day waiting period between applying for a gun permit and obtaining a gun.

Joycelyn Elders

Country, Kids, Gun

Source: www.motherjones.com

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...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.

Kenneth W. Royce

Gun, Law, Cities

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I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

Barack Obama

Country, Gun, Thinking

Source: www.politico.com

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I'm a professional at what I do. As a police officer you're a professional at what you're supposed to do. You should know your equipment well. You should know the difference between a taser and a handgun.

Michael B. Jordan

Differences, Police, Tasers

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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