Gun Control Quotes

GUN CONTROL
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Banning guns addresses a fundamental right

of all Americans to feel safe.
Diane Feinstein (b. 1933)
Gun owner with concealed carry permit

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The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of

tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the
servants of tyranny a good conscience.
Albert Camus (1913-1960)

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I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns.

Howard Metzenbaum (1917-2008)

99

Those who would give up essential liberty

to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
from PA Assembly's reply to the Governor of PA - 1755

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I am one who believes that as a first step the U.S. should

move expeditiously to disarm the civilian population, other
than police and security officers, of all handguns, pistols
and revolvers ...no one should have a right to anonymous
ownership or use of a gun.
Dean Morris
Testimony to Congress

101

No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless

with written orders for his master or employer, or in his
company, with arms from one place to another. Arms in
possession of a slave contrary to this prohibition shall be
forfeited to him who will seize them."
A Bill Concerning Slaves
Virginia Assembly, 1779

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Gun Control?
gangsters. I
always gonna
trigger with
who wins.

It's the best thing you can do for crooks and

want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm
have a gun. Safety Locks? You will pull the
a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see

Sammy "the Bull" Gravano (b. 1945)

Asked about Gun Control in an interview in Vanity Fair

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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Lenin (1870-1924)

104

The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis

and Saddam Hussein all agree!
Gun Control Works!
Dean Armstrong

105

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.
Jim Florio (b. 1937)

106

Every Swiss man from 18 to 50 has a fully automatic

"assault rifle" with a 25-round mags, and ammo. His rifle
is not stored at the army base (as here) - he gets to keep
it at home!...Yet criminal use of these powerful weapons is
almost unheard of. Also, the Swiss have no gun restrictions
for sane non-felon adults. Buy what you want, and carry it
where you want to.
You see, the Swiss government and the Swiss citizens trust
each other, because they are the same people....versus here
where we suffer a professional political class ruling from
on high what they to be their "subjects."
Boston T. Party
Boston's Gun Bible, p.32/25

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I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned

only by the police and military. I am going to do everything
I can to disarm this state.
Michael Dukakis (b. 1933)

108

Only Vermont perfectly recognizes your right to be

peaceably armed without permit - openly or concealed. So,
Sarah Brady and Josh Sugarmann - why isn't Vermont a hotbed
or gun violence when it should be by your arguments?
Conversely, why is Washington, D.C., where they've banned
handgun ownership, our nation's murder capital? CHL states
have lower crime rates. This is indisputable. Every Swiss
male keeps at home his fully-automatic, militia-issued rifle
(along with grenades, mortars, etc.), and Switzerland has
the lowest crime rate in the West.
Boston's Gun Bible, p. 30/18

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Boston T. Party
www.javelinpress.com

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion:

the stage where the government is free to do anything it
pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission;
which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history,
the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
The Nature of Government

110

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United

States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them...
'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done
it.
Diane Feinstein (b. 1933)
Gun owner with concealed carry permit
60 Minutes episode

111

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the

SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns
doesn't serve the State.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945)

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We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we

protect guns from accidents by children.
Gloria Estefan

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(b. 1957)

" If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly

regulated, the rest would be confiscated
"
Nancy Pelosi (b. 1940)

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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an

alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is morally
superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker
got that fatal bullet wound.
Women Against Gun Control
http://www.wagc.com/

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If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed

gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570
murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults
would have been avoided yearly.
Professor John Lott
http://deepwaterweb.com/gunstudy.htm

116

We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true...

Charles Schumer (b. 1950)
has sworn an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution
quoted on NBC, November 30, 1993

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I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco...

P.J. O'Rourke (b. 1947)

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I honestly think - and I am not an expert on the amendments

- I think the only people in this nation who should be
allowed to own guns are police officers. I don't care if you
want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I
say, 'Sorry. It is 1999, we have had enough as a nation. You
are not allowed to own a gun and if you do own a gun, I
think you should go to prison.'
Rosie O'Donnell (b. 1962)
April 21, 1999

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These Sarah Brady types must be educated to understand that

because we have an armed citizenry, that a dictatorship has
not happened in America. These anti-gun fools are more
dangerous to Liberty than street criminals or foreign
spies.
Theodore Haas (b. 1917)

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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.
Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

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The history of liberty is a history of limitation of

government power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson

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A militia law, requiring all men, or with very few

exceptions besides cases of conscience, to be provided with
arms and ammunition... is always a wise institution, and, in
the present circumstances of our country, indispensable.
John Adams (1735-1826)
Thoughts on Government, 1776.