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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

Wayne LaPierre

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Wayne LaPierre
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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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.
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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 presence of a firearm makes us all safer.
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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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We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.
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We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.
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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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Freedom is never an achieved state like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.
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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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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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Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.
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Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.
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Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.
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Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.
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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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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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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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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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There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...
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