Gun Control Quotes
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If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life (Gun Control Quotes)
There’s no such thing as a good gun. There’s no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys (Gun Control Quotes)
There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you’re legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn’t, and what really has an impact, recognizing you’re never going to do away entirely with gun violence (Gun Control Quotes)
I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily (Gun Control Quotes)
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes (Gun Control Quotes)
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you’re putting a money test on getting a gun. It’s racism in its worst form (Gun Control Quotes)
We’re bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns (Gun Control Quotes)
There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation (Gun Control Quotes)
If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business (Gun Control Quotes)
We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows (Gun Control Quotes)
All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws (Gun Control Quotes)
If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody’s gotta wake up to that (Gun Control Quotes)
I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don’t want bodyguards. I am my own security (Gun Control Quotes)
We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame (Gun Control Quotes)
So there will be a bill. We’ve been working on it now for a year (Gun Control Quotes)
Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state (Gun Control Quotes)
There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions (Gun Control Quotes)
The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence (Gun Control Quotes)
I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections (Gun Control Quotes)
You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That’s gun control (Gun Control Quotes)
Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them.... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals (Gun Control Quotes)
I don’t want people to leave the show being upset. So if I am trying to do a new joke, and sometimes I will talk about things like gun control or hostile massacre and I notice people being upset I will change the direction (Gun Control Quotes)
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important (Gun Control Quotes)
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him (Gun Control Quotes)
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there (Gun Control Quotes)
Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous. And then he called for prayers in the schools and an end to gun control (Gun Control Quotes)
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases (Gun Control Quotes)
I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken (Gun Control Quotes)
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed (Gun Control Quotes)
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 used to command the party (Gun Control Quotes)