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2303 Gun quotes by 1384 unique authors
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I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.
— Ronald Reagan
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Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.
— Ronald Reagan
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep…
— Joseph Story
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Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— L. Neil Smith
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
— Alexander Hamilton
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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…
— Richard Henry Lee
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...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.
— Seneca the Younger
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Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there…
— George Orwell
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No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much…
— Colin Greenwood
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today,…
— John Dingell
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Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities…
— Mike Royko
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If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal…
— Orrin Hatch
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[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that…
— Charlton Heston
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The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people…
— Thomas Sowell
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She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.
— Barack Obama
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I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.
— John McCain
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All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.
— Charles Schumer
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All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be…
— Mao Zedong
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The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against…
— Walter E. Williams
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That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace…
— Jeff Cooper
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want…
— William S. Burroughs
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The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
— Thomas Sowell
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
— Thomas Jefferson
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