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The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

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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If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.
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Laws can't control the lawless.
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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 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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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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I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.
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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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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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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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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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For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.
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