“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.” FormImpossibleWorstRacismGunTestsGun ControlInexpensive Author:Roy Innis
“According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.” IfsMeanUsePoliticalUsedThreeFoundJusticeCrimeDemandPercentGunResistanceGun ControlAssaultThree TimesPercentagesInjuredInstituteSurveysRight To Bear ArmsRobberyCensusFelonsGun Crime Author:Gary Kleck
“During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times, and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives.” ExampleGunPoliceWaveTerrorIsraelSavedAll TimeChiefsPermitGun ControlConcealedFirearmsHandgunsTerror Attacks Author:John R. Lott Jr.
“Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.” WantTryingSelfGovernmentLawIndividualRightsFailingCrimeCitizensPoliticianGunPoliceProtectionDefenseTypicalGun ControlAbidingSelf DefenseUnreliableLaw Abiding CitizenGun LawGovernment WorkPolice Protection Author:James Bovard
“The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.” PeopleGivingGovernmentForceBehindsAuthorityGunFundamentalsTyrannyEmpoweringAmendmentsGun ControlSecond AmendmentRunawayPro Gun Author:Bob Schaffer
“Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.” GunLibertarianCriminalsLibertarianismGun ControlBansRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsHandgun BanGun Ban Author:Walter F. Mondale
“The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys [politicians] up there.” KnowsAbleGuyPoliticianProtectGunHuntingDucksAmendmentsGun ControlSecond AmendmentMany FriendsPro GunDuck Hunting Author:Suzanna Hupp
“If I could have banned them all...I would have!” IfsGunIf I CouldGun ControlBanned Author:Dianne Feinstein
“We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.” LawClassGunGun ControlBansBendingNew Class Author:Rahm Emanuel
“A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentLibertyCenturyProtectGunOppositesUnionsChinaPlanningChecksGermanySovietGun ControlSoviet UnionCubaCambodia Author:Charley Reese