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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. -- Larry Elder
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. -- Clint Eastwood
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. -- Jeffrey Toobin
Gun Control is mind control. -- L. Neil Smith
Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction. -- CrimethInc.
The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works! -- Dean Armstrong
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks. -- Robert Sherrill
"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals? -- Mike Gunn
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. -- Thomas Jefferson
It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control. -- Si Robertson
It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem. -- Bob Barr
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. -- Alexander Hamilton
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. -- Thomas Sowell
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. -- Luke Scott
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming. -- Niger Innis
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. -- William S. Burroughs
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves. -- Dianne Feinstein
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- Benjamin Franklin
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. -- Dalai Lama
What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change. -- Jay Mohr
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. -- Eliot Spitzer
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- John R. Lott Jr.
Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders. -- Chris Rock
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. -- George Orwell
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. -- Ted Nugent
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. -- Thomas Jefferson
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, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. -- Dianne Feinstein
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. -- Mao Zedong
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites. -- Niger Innis
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. -- Anna Quindlen
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. -- Ann Coulter
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic. -- Ted Nugent
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. -- Ethan Zuckerman
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. -- Robert Dallek
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. -- Larry Elder
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed. -- Debi Mazar
Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality. -- Steven Pinker
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. -- Michael Badnarik
It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag. -- Joe Perry
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby. -- Michael Steele
After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. -- Gayle Forman
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. -- Jimmy Carter
And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me. -- Dianne Feinstein
The downside to gun control is genocide. -- John Ross
I don't support any gun control legislation. -- Mitt Romney
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. -- Vladimir Lenin
I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands. -- Rick Perry
Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control. -- Ronald Reagan
The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom. -- Cody Wilson
People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid. -- Charley Reese
I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. -- William J. Clinton
I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control. -- David Cross
Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common... -- Charley Reese
...the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.... -- Joe Lieberman
We would need less gun control if we had better birth control. -- Richard Jeni
Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms, -- Steve Largent
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico. -- Jesse Ventura
Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement. -- Greg Gutfeld
Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about? -- Ani DiFranco
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. -- Alan Keyes
I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control. -- Nia Long
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. -- Roger Rosenblatt
Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime. -- Stockwell Day
The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous. -- Chuck Todd
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms. -- Vladimir Lenin
We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions. -- Barack Obama
I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control. -- Chuck Todd
The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control -- Nora Dunn
If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country. -- Mark Steyn
If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail. -- Ted Nugent
The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control. -- Nora Dunn
The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now." -- Chuck Todd
Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty. -- Don Kates
They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are. -- Dalia Mogahed
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. -- Gary Kleck
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? -- Paul Harvey
I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control. -- John McCain
Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. -- Bill Maher
I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections. -- Wayne LaPierre
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
There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue--those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS--but they remain strangely silent... -- Bill Hicks
If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side. -- Chuck Todd
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy. -- Juan Williams
Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes. -- Bob Barr
C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada. -- Sharon Carstairs
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. -- Stefan Molyneux
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. -- Lawrence Hunter
Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats. -- Collin Peterson
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. -- Jesse Ventura
Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom. -- Charley Reese
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. -- Thomas Sowell
I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are. -- Rand Paul
The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark. -- Sheila Fraser
It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control. -- Michael Coren
Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control. -- Joseph Sobran
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist. -- Robert A. Heinlein
That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel. -- David Duke
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws. -- Juan Williams
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them. -- John McGinnis
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized. -- Niger Innis
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized. -- Niger Innis
Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. -- Cass Sunstein
My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. -- Jerry Brown
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats. -- John Dingell
Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so. -- Don Feder
I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off. -- Bobcat Goldthwait
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. -- Thomas Sowell
I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns. -- Charles Barkley
Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to exploit the emotions of uninformed American people for political gain. -- Walter E. Williams
Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue. -- Jesse Jackson
What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined. -- Rush Limbaugh
When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren't thinking clearly. -- Glenn Reynolds

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