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The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed…
— Jeff Cooper
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I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish…
— Hugh Downs
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than…
— L. Neil Smith
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Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and…
— John Ashcroft
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The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with…
— Malcolm Wallop
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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
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Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us…
— Andrew Ford
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear…
— Jeff Cooper
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I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a…
— John Silber
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[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania,…
— George Mason
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Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In…
— Charley Reese
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As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's…
— Charlton Heston
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If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated
— Nancy Pelosi
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We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true...
— Charles Schumer
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I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco...
— P.J. O'Rourke
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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…
— L. Neil Smith
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At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make…
— Clint Eastwood
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Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
— Jeff Cooper
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In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the…
— Ann Coulter
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[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not…
— Charles Krauthammer
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our…
— Earl Warren
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A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
— Vladimir Lenin
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