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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press."

Exercise Gun Strong Arms
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people."

People Nature Gun
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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib One god to show me how to do things his son did."

Girl Son Gun
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Fidel Castro Politician, Revolutionary
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"I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun."

Thinking War Gun
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be."

Government Gun Muzzle
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"My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced."

House Gun Cousin
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Huey Newton Activist
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"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."

Ideas Wall Gun
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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
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"In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'"

Funny Humor Gun
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Juan Williams Journalist
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"Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns."

Mean Children Gun
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Huey Newton Activist
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"I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing."

Years Party Gun
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk."

Gun
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Barack Obama Politician
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"No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different."

America Fall Gun
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws."

Government Gun Outlaw
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Eliot Spitzer Politician
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"Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror."

People Mean Gun
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Claire Wolfe Author
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"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it'll be one more round of "reasonable gun control" or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from "child abuse." Whatever, something will snap."

Children America Gun
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Clint Smith Poet, Educator
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"If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."

Cutting Gun Sticks
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns."

Mean Winning Gun
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."

Men Eye Gun
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