Wayne LaPierre quotes
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“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
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“Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Obama’s budget kill people.”
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“Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : "GOP hopefuls couldn't stop talking about Hillary Clinton at this NRA event" by Erik Schelzig, www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2015.
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“Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.”
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“All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term,”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : "NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.
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“We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : "Stand and Fight" by Wayne LaPierre, dailycaller.com. February 13, 2013.
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“The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.”
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“Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense. I believe that we will prevail.”
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“What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.”
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“For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.”
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“If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?”
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“The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.”
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“Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : "U.S. freedoms not to blame for Mexico's drug war" by Wayne LaPierre, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2009.
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“We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.”
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“One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about, .”
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“I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.”
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“If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.”
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“First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.”
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“How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012
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“We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory, instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.
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“When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : "NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.
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“We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.”
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“There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games.”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : Wayne LaPierre's Speech after the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, hollywoodlife.com. December 21, 2012.
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“Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk,”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012
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“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.”
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“When it comes to the issue of background checks, let’s be honest – background checks will never be 'universal' – because criminals will never submit to them,”
-- Wayne LaPierreSource : "NRA: More Gun Control Not A Serious Proposal" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.
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