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- Nov 07, 2020
Gun Quotes
On family, danger, and a debate that never quite settles.
One quote recalls a son asking for a gun for Christmas and a parent deciding it was finally time, while another reflects on relatives in law enforcement and the hard choices that job can involve. Read more in our Danger quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have that nagging feeling of wanting to go back and getting my long gun back and be a sniper on a Special Forces ODA, which is the greatest job in the world, but I have some goals in MMA that I set out to do, and I'm not going to stop until I get them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
- Nov 07, 2020
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the former state speaker of the North Caroline House of Representatives, I helped push two landmark bills that protected and expanded gun rights for citizens.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the NRA.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pledge to ask if there is a gun where your kid visits or plays. Pledge to protect your children from harm's way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now, my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum - that gun weighed more than I did!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
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- Nov 07, 2020