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Friday 19th of April 2024

Gun control During my four years, nothing happened! And there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn’t yield. And once you yield a little bit, that’s just the beginning. Donald Trump, who presided over major mass shootings in Las Vegas; Sutherland Springs, Texas; Parkland, Florida; Sante Fe, Texas; Pittsburgh; Thousand Oaks, California; Virginia Beach; El Paso, and elsewhere © 2024 Kwiple.com
Gun control There are various groups that think you can ban certain kinds of guns. I am not of that mode.  I am in the mode of being deeply concerned. George W. Bush © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say 21st century weapons 18th century laws Placard, Geneva, Switzerland, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Betsy DeVos is the only thing that should be fired inside a school Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Guns will be the death of us Placard, Fort Worth, Texas, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say I can't even bring peanut butter to school Placard, New York City, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say I want to live in a world where guns are harder to get than Hamilton tickets!! Placard, New York City, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say If you need a machine gun to hunt you suck at it Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say If you need a machine gun to hunt you suck at it Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Mental illnesses  are global Mass shootings are American Placard, London, England, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say My favorite part of the 2nd Amendment is where it says a well regulated militia Gun control now Placard, Paris, France, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say N ow R aising A ctivists Placard, New York City, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say There should be a background check before the NRA is allowed to buy a Senator Placard, New York City, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Thoughts and prayers for Republicans in November Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Throw Them Out Nationwide campaign led by Everytown for Gun Safety, a movement to end gun violence and expose candidates who take money from the NRA © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say When I said I'd rather die than go to math class? That was hyperbole, assholes  Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Who in your life would have to die for you to support gun control? Placard, Las Vegas, Nevada, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun dealers Last year, Everytown [for Gun Safety] took a count and found there were nearly 78,000 licensed gun dealers in the country. Which, the organization noted, amounts to “more than all the McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway and Wendy’s locations combined.” This doesn’t include, of course, the very large number of people who buy and sell guns without bothering to get licenses. Gail Collins, New York Times, July 12, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say As improbable as it may sound, the Russian bear shares more interests with the Republican elephant than the Democratic donkey.  Marina Butina, founder of Russia's Right to Bear Arms movement © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Control attorneys general, control judgeships, control the courts  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Don't tread on us © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Extremism in the defense of gun rights is no vice Moderation in the pursuit of gun controllers is no virtue © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Fear justifies homicide © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say  Forbid the Centers of Disease Control from studying gun violence © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Good guns make good neighbours © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Government workers who publicly support gun controls should be fired for failing to defend constitutional rights  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Gun control advocates are traitors to the Constitution © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Gun control is also sexist, because women are the ones who are most greatly disenfranchised when they are disarmed. Dana Loesch © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Gun-free zones kill people © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say I was impressed by the grassroots movement they created. I wish we had as many good-looking young ladies involved in our gun-rights movement here in the United States. Alan Gottlieb,  founder, Second Amendment Foundation, on Russia's Right to Bear Arms movement  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say If teachers were armed, fewer students would be killed © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say If you came at me, and I felt that my life was in danger or that I was going to be injured, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot you. Marion Hammer, NRA's Florida lobbyist and originator of shoot-first-ask-questions-later laws (Stand Your Ground self-defense laws) © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say In Guns we trust © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Liberals want to take away your guns © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Loading magazines is better than reading them © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Love your guns more than their children © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Make them take your guns from your cold dead hands  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Mass shootings are the price of freedom in America © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Mass shootings mean not enough people carry guns © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say People, not guns, kill people More popular than “Soldiers, not weapons, kill combatants” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Police should be required to justify every shooting incident Shooters claiming self-defense should be presumed to be innocent and immune from prosecution © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Political power in America comes from owning guns, not from having wealth  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves. NRA, 11:43 AM – 7 Nov 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Spilt blood purifies © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say State legislatures are for rubber-stamping bills we've written © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say You guys love it. Now, I'm not saying that you love the tragedy.  But I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many in the legacy media in the back. Dana Loesch, NRA's national spokesperson, addressing reporters at the 2018 CPAC [Conservative Political Action Conference] shortly after 17 were killed and 14 wounded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Your castle is anywhere you're allowed to be © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say to Republican legislators  We paid for you and don't you ever forget it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say to Republican legislators  We paid for you and don't you ever forget it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun makers say It [the Sandly Hook massacre] was an awful horrific huge tragedy but its impact on the long-term capital decisions of the business were not — were not a factor. We were in the business of legally making guns to legally sell to legal gun owners.  So there is no other thing to do than wake up and make guns on Monday morning. George Kollitides ii,  CEO of Freedom Group, maker of the AR-15 used ot kill 20 first graders and 6 teachers at  Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, who led its purchase of a barrel maker to raise AR-15 sales by lowering manufacturing costs on Dec 20, 2012, when funeral services were being held for a six-year-old victim © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gun makers say These murders are local problems that have to be solved locally. Marty Daniel, founder and CEO of Daniel Defense, maker of the semiautomatic DDM4 V7, used to kill 19 students and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, commenting on the Uvalde massacre during congressional testimony © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gun sales The arrival of private equity in the AR-15 market would turn a once disdainded product into one of the most controversial and well-known icons of Ameria's culture wars. Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, Wall Street Journal, September 23-24, 2023 [referring to Cerberus Capital Management, led by Stephen Feinberg, and its subsidiary, Freedom Group, led by George Kollitides II, which captured America's gun industry and made it into one of its most profitable ones by outsourcing to low-cost suppliers and aggressively selling AR-15s to civilians]  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gun violence A 2003 study looked at levels of gun ownerhip among murder and suicide victims. Among gun owners, the odds of becoming a murder victim were 41 percent higher when compared with people who did not keep guns in the house. The odds of dying by suicide were 244 percent higher. That last tragic number is important: of  those 45,000 annual firearm-related deaths, nearly 25,000 are suicides. Scientific American, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Gun violence All developed nations regulate firearms more stringently than we do; compared with the citizens of twenty- two other high-income countries, Americans are ten times more likely to be killed by guns. In the past fifty years alone, more civilians have lost their lives to firearms within the United States than have been killed in uniform in all war in American history. Adam Hochschild, New York Review of Books, April 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Every day in this country, 316 people are shot. Every single day. 106 of them die. Every day. Our flags were still flying at half staff for the victims of the horrific murder of eight primarily Asian American people in  Georgia when ten more lives were taken in a mass murder in Colorado. You probably didn't hear it, but between those two incidents, less than one week apart, there were more than 850 additional shootings. 850. It took the lives of more than 250 people and left 500 injured. This is an epidemic, for God's sake. Joe Biden, April 8, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Gun violence For the weary White House, Florida shooting offered a ‘reprieve’ from scandals  headline, Washington Post, February 19, 2018, referring to Trump White House officials admitting to feelings of temporary relief because press coverage of the killings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, pushed reports of spousal abuse by White House officials, Cabinet secretaries charging taxpayers for luxury travel, Trump's affair with a Playboy centerfold, Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in our elections, Jared Kushner and other White House officials lacking permanent security clearances, etc. from the front pages © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Guy comes in, puts the gun in my ribs. And I just said, “I believe you want the guy behind the counter.” I redirected him … The resolution was, he went to the appropriate person behind the register, who gave him the money and he left the store running before the police got there. Ben Carson, on a robbery at a Popeye's in Baltimore © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gun violence I was a little bit shocked at that – it didn't have a bull's-eye on it. Richard Burr, Republican Senator from North Carolina, uttering surprise at seeing a rifle magazine with Hillary Clinton's picture on the cover without a bullseye © 2016 Kwiple.com
Gun violence It's at least $10 to get a dog license in Jersey City. It's still $2 to get a permit to purchase a firearm in New Jersey. Philip D. Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, April 21, 2021 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Look, stuff happens. Jeb Bush, responding to a question about gun violence after a gunman killed 9 and wounded 7 at a community college in October, 2015 He later responded to the uproar over his comment by saying, “Things happen all the time. Things. Is that better?” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gun violence ‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens Headline at theonion.com every time there's a mass shooting in the United States © 2022 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Not only would I probably not cooperate with him, I would not just stand there and let him shoot me. I would say, “Hey guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can't get us all.” Ben Carson, on what he would do if a gunman like the one at Umpqua Community College walked up to him and asked his religion © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gun violence One study found that Americans ages 15 to 19 are 82 times as likely to be shot dead as similar-age teenagers in our peer countries. … Americans ages 18 to 20 account for 4 percent of the population but 17 percent of those known to have committed a murder. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, May 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Gun violence [S]ince 1975, more Americans have  died from guns — including suicides, murders and accidents —  than in all the wars in United States history, going back to the American Revolution. … [W]e continue to lose 45,000 lives a year to guns. That's 123 lives lost a day. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, May 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. Barack Obama, after a gunman killed nine people at an Oregon college in October, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Spinning bullets tend to ricochet inside the body at different angles, creating a far more damaging wound. (In fact, experimentation with the dynamical system consituted by a bullet and human flesh has produced a generation of bullets designed to create shock waves that rupture every internal organ.) Manuel De Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Take the guns first, go through due process second. Donald Trump, describing how to deal with potentially dangerous gun owners, at a meeting with lawmakers about school safety and gun violence © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun violence When you hear the phrase, “armed compound in a secluded rural area,” what is that – a bunch of Democrats? Is that Dennis Kucinich out there? Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gun violence Whoop de do. Philip Van Cleave, president Virginia Citizens Defense League, on being told that there have been zero massacres in Australia since 1996, when sweeping gun control laws were implemented three months after a massacre in which 35 were killed, 23 wounded © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gun violence You can't solve it with a dialogue. You can't solve it with a summit. You solve it with a bullet to the head. It's the only thing these people understand. Andrea Tantaros, Fox News “Outnumbered” co-host, on America's “problem” with Muslims © 2015 Kwiple.com
Guns Consider Your Man Card Reissued. advertising tagline for Bushmaster Firearms's .223-caliber semiautomatic rifle, the type favored by mass killers and men with small hands © 2016 Kwiple.com
Guns If a child can't open a bottle of aspirin, we should also make sure she can't pull the trigger of a gun. Barack Obama © 2016 Kwiple.com
Guns In the past decade, the volume of private firearms has jumped more than a third to 120 guns per hundred Americans. The US now accounts for 46 per cent of all private gun ownership worldwide — more than ten times its share of the global population. … In the last generation, the share of American homes that own guns has actually fallen. … That means there are more guns owned by fewer people. Some homes have caches that could qualify as their own mini-militias. Edward Luce, Financial Times, July 6, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Guns It ain't fun when the rabbit got the gun! Adage  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Guns Mexico has filed suit in a U.S. court on Aug. 4 against Colt, Glock, Smith & Wesson, and other gunmakers. The civil suit argues that the companies “wreak havoc in Mexican society, by persistently supplying a torrent of guns to the drug cartels.” In 2019, 17,000 Mexcans were murdered with American-made firearms. Bloomberg Businessweek, August 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Guns NEW RULE: If you give a nine-year old a hunting rifle, expect to have a hole in your head next to the one you already have. That's right, fathers are signing up their kids to win free hunting trips. Great time to find out she's pissed about not getting that doll. I'm sorry, but the first time your daughter should see a shotgun is at her wedding when she's fourteen. Bill Maher © 2016 Kwiple.com
Guns The people supporting Ted Cruz are the people who say things like, if Jesus had a gun, the crucifixion would have went differently. Mike Yard, on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, December 14, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Guns Through stupidity, in a very hardcore prison, two vicious murderers escaped, and nobody knows where they are. And a woman up in the prison area was on television this morning and she said, “You know, Mr. Trump, I always was against guns. I didn't want guns. And now since this happened, my husband and I are finally in agree- ment, because he wanted the guns. We now have a gun on every table. We're ready to start shooting.” I said, “Very interesting.” Donald Trump, June 16, 2015, speech © 2016 Kwiple.com
Guns What? Do you think deer are wearing Kevlar vests? Joe Biden, on using military assault weapons to hunt © 2021 Kwiple.com
Guns What moves a weapon, what really makes a gun sell, is the promise that the government is going to ban it. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Guns When the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles or the Irish or any white man in the world says, “Give me liberty or give me death,” the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of this bad nigger so there won't be any more like him. James Baldwin, The Dick Cavett Show, 1968 © 2017 Kwiple.com