Best Gun Wisdom
2303 Gun quotes by 1384 unique authors
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If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.
— Pete Stark
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I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual…
— Jan Schakowsky
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We would like to see, in the future, what we will probably call needs-based licensing of all weapons. ...Where it would make it much more…
— Sarah Brady
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To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.
— Sarah Brady
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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.…
— Rosie O'Donnell
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I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to…
— Rosie O'Donnell
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Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
— Garry Wills
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The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.
— Janet Reno
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Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.
— Marion Barry
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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what…
— Aristotle
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The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him…
— George Orwell
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I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
— Oliver Stone
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... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the…
— Malcolm X
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Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order...
— Thomas Paine
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The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
— Charles Krauthammer
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I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun.
— Patrick Henry
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This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
— Patrick Henry
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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…
— Louise Slaughter
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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…
— Joe Biden
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The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were…
— Danny Glover
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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,…
— Dianne Feinstein
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It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to…
— Tony Bennett
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...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
— Joseph Goebbels
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The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny,…
— James Madison
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