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"While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos."
"This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine."
"I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis."
"If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community."
"My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -"
"The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense."
"When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun."
"I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run."
"White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing."
"You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely."
"Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred."
"You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark"
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun."
"A gun is not an argument."
"I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen."
"The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks."
"Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill."
"In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think."
"I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight."
"My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so."
