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We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

Wayne LaPierre

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Wayne LaPierre
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Schenectady
New York
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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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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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Freedom is never an achieved state like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.
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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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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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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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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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Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.
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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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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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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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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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If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.
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I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.
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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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Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?
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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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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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