Handguns Quote by Joycelyn Elders Download Open image “Handguns are a public health issue.” — Joycelyn Elders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Handguns Health Health issues Issues Public health
In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police. — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The data from the 1990 Harvard Medical Practice Study suggest that 150,000 Americans die every year from doctors' negligence - compared with 38,000 gun… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Medical marijuana users are now lobbying for the right to carry firearms. Because no one is a better shot than a stoned old man… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor,… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
“We have a multiheaded dragon in our midst that for too long has been waging a domestic war on our young, our poor, our… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I came there as prime steak and now I feel like low-grade hamburger. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
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… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger… — Patrick V. Murphy Copy Share Image
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… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image