“We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.” LongSelfNationsWeaponsGunTraditionDefenseConvincedCombatHeritageHuntingOwnershipSelf DefenseRecreationColoradoGun OwnershipOutdoor Recreation Author:Mark Udall
“The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.” WorldLongStatesEffortSecurityWeaponsMassCapableDestructionThreatIraqLiberationRangeWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionRoguesObtaining Author:Armstrong Williams
“Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.” IfsKnowsMenWorldWellsLongPowerfulAcceptingWeaponsConscienceDeserveAshamedNonviolenceDefeatedOppressors Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.” IfsKnowsWayLongImagineSkyStreetsMinutesHugeWalkingWeaponsShotsAreasTerrorStrikesCampaignsRegionsMassiveVillageSocialistExplosionsInjuredDronesLinguistsLong Shots Author:Noam Chomsky
“You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .” LongBookCareLinesTerribleWeaponsAncientAccidentsHandleIronBuried Author:Bill Vaughan
“As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home.” IfsWantPersonsLongHomeLawIndividualCrimeCitizensWeaponsGunDifficultyProtectionAbidingLaw Abiding Citizen Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986