"The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun."
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"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."
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"It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack."
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"The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution."
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"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down."
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"Any marijuana transaction I ever did with anyone, there were never any guns involved, ever."
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"To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns."
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"Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980."
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"I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared."
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"An armed society is a polite society."
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"I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle."
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"To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire."
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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."
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"My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me."
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"There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later."
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"I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds."
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"The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyone else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses, and that's sort of par for the course."
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"The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it."
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"When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state"."
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"The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win."
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