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Laws can't control the lawless.

Wayne LaPierre

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Wayne LaPierre
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
Activist
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Schenectady
New York
Laws
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Lawless
Gun

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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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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.
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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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We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.
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When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.
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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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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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I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking.
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Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?
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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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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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The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.
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Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.
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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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If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?
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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.
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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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Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth.
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If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.
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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.
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