Criminals Quote by Josh Sugarmann

“The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.”

Josh Sugarmann

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Handguns are a public-health problem.

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... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury…

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One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once,…

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You can't get around the image of people shooting at people toprotect their stores and it working. This is damaging to the [guncontrol] movement.

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The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are looking for…

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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.…

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Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully…

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Fear, physical pain, and death are just part of the price Americans pay for the easy access of handguns. It is estimated that the…

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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…

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Americans are ready to hate somebody -- and it's going to be the gun industry.

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Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly…

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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too…

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What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

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A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

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There's some criminals that wear badges. Guess what? There's some criminals that work in the media. There's some criminals that are football coaches. There's…

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Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

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