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"I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that."
"My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing."
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
"To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country."
"Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up... Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up."
"We are all just monkeys with money and guns."
"It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished."
"With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases."
"I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns"
"People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie."
"In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking."
"I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns."
"I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin."
"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
"A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste."
"It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further."
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
"When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence."
"Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless."
"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."
