“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.” ThinkingHappensParentInterestGreaterSpecialMetsGunSentimentsGun ControlHookSpecial InterestsSandySandy Hook Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.” PeopleChildrenArtTwoBookStatesFactsUseHomeGovernmentSchoolLeftForceWishParentPayMoralityGunStriveLifestyleAlternativesAbortionOwnersAssociationHuntingEntitledStrifeHuntersTaxpayersRiflesLobbyingGun OwnersHeathersPublic Art Author:Grover Norquist
“My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed.” UseSchoolNextParentWaterMorningFireBedGunShockCattleBoilingBoiling Water Author:Jackson Rathbone
“My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.” WantGivingLastsParentGunLet MeGive MeTwelveMotorcycleGauges Author:Scott Thompson
“We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.” PeopleWayNeedsSaidCareSchoolYoungParentChurchDealsSituationIssuesTeachingHealthyGunAgreeCaringHealth CareAddresses Author:Joycelyn Elders
“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenYoungLostParentBlackCommunityWhitePoorAttentionTalkingViolenceParticularGunPaidSlaveryCampaignsVulnerableBlack PeopleAdulthoodDisabledCrusadesGun ViolenceLynchingBlack Community Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.” ChildrenHardLostParentEmotionViolenceGunVulnerableRight ThingGun Violence Author:Michael Skolnik
“I'm growing up in Detroit, Michigan, both of my parents were gun owners, and that they taught us how to safely and carefully utilize them, because we had businesses, and they showed us out of a sense of protection. But that was something that was used to never use a gun unless you intend - never play with a gun unless you use it to intend - intend to use it. But it was for protection only.” ParentGrowing UpGunProtection Author:Daayiee Abdullah
“My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.” GivingWholeBeautifulParentSupportSonMomDadLuckyGunGive MeMy DadFinancialMy MomThanksGenesHandsomeMom And DadFinancial SupportGood Genes Author:Ashton Kutcher
“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.” ChildrenCountryTodayParentMillionsEnvironmentPeriodsDrugGunAccidentsAlcoholOwnersGun ControlMisuseUndisciplinedGun OwnersGun SafetyShooting GunsBad Parent Author:Ted Nugent
“Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'” GivingParentBoysGunNecksDucksToysBangsRubberPistolsToy GunsRubber Ducks Book:The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions Source: The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions
“You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.” IfsWellsParentMouthsGunLeavingDiariesCleavage Book:I Smell Esther Williams Source: I Smell Esther Williams
“Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.” KindKidsGuyParentWeaponsGunGun ControlWeekdays Author:Stephen Colbert