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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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Wayne LaPierre
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Schenectady
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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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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.
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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.
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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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