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Monday 2nd of March 2026

9/11 The US now has 13m citizens with permits to carry concealed firearms, which is more than 12 times the number of police officers. As one lobbyist for the National Rifle Association tells [Evan] Osnos [author of a book being reviewed], the al-Qaeda attacks were a giant windfall for the US gun lobby. The fall of the Twin Towers followed a decade of sharply declining crime rates and lower gun sales. Suddenly there was a new paranoia of terrorists to exploit. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason they're out to get your guns Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
American exceptionalism Mass shootings © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers 48 people were shot during a 15-hour filibuster on gun control headline, Vox.com, June 16, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Estimated number of firearms in the average U.S. gun-owning household in 1964: 4.5 Today: 8.2 Harper's Index, January 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which a U.S. gun death is more likely to be a suicide than a homicide: 1.8 Harper's Index, January 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which more Americans died in school shootings than in combat last year: 3 Harper's Index, August 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In 2013, between the wee hours of Nov. 23 and the wee hours of Nov. 24, 10 American children and teenagers were killed by guns. … The number of fatalities that day exceeded the national daily average of 6.75. New York Times, October 28, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Minimum number of shooting incidents in the United States in the past year in which the shooter was a dog: 2 In which the shooter was a toddler: 50 Harper's Index, January 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Minimum number of U.S. politicians who have distributed AR-15 assault rifles at campaign events this year: 3 Harper's Index, September 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers More than 25% of gun homcides in 2015 happened across census blocks that contain just 1.5% of the country's total population. While gun control advocates often say it is unacceptable that Americans overall are “25 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than people in other developed countries”, people who live in these neighborhood areas face an average gun homicide rate about 400 times higher than the rate across those high-income countries. The Guardian, November 15, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of people fatally shot by British police in the past 3 years: 2 Average number of people fatally shot by U.S. police each day so far this year: 2.6 Harper's Index, July 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage change since 2010 in the number of firearms silencers registered in the United States: +217 Harper's Index, April 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of the world's civilian-owned firearms that are owned by Americans: 48 Harper's Index, January 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Ratio of the average annual number of deaths in the United States caused by drowning to those caused by gun violence: 1:8 Of federal research funding for drowning to funding for gun violence: 1:1 Harper's Index, April 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Christmas Merry Christmas! 🎄 ps. Santa, please bring ammo. 🎁 Thomas Massie and family, 1:22 PM – Dec 4, 2021, four days after the November 30 mass shooting at Oxford High School outside Detroit, MI, and ten days before the ninth anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, CT © 2021 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Missouri Gov. Mike Parson issued an executive order Thursday suspending late penalties for concealed carry license renewals, a measure he said would promote health and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kansas City Star, April 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed officers in every single school in this nation. Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I never saw a body with bullet holes  that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away. Ben Carson © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I would imagine there's a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies. Betsy DeVos, Trump's education secretary nominee, explaining why states should be allowed to decide whether to ban guns from schools such as the one near Yellowstone Park, home to more than 700 grizzlies © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I would rather be shot by a smart gun than sell one. Andy Raymond, Maryland gun dealer, quoted in an episode of 60 Minutes originally broadcast Nov. 1, 2015, about resistance to smart guns © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California, in his Gun Violence Awareness Day ruling overturning California's longtime ban on assault weapons © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say This is the price of freedom. Bill O'Reilly, commenting on the 58 murdered and nearly 500 injured by a gun nut in Las Vegas  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say We need to execute people like John Walker [Lindh] in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors. Ann Coulter, who later clarified the remark, saying, “What I meant to say was, ‘We should burn John Walker Lindh alive and televise it on prime-time network TV.’ My apologies for any misunderstanding that might have occurred.” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say You wonder why we're having problems in Newtown, Connecticut? [the Sandy Hook massacre] … Because we've forgotten the law of God. Roy Moore © 2017 Kwiple.com
Death If I were to shoot you on either side of your heart, one shot . . . and then another, you'd have two punctured lungs, two sucking chest wounds. Now you'e good and fucked. But you'll still be alive long enough to feel your lungs fill up with blood. If I shoot you there with the shots coming fast, it's no problem. The ripples tear up your heart and lungs and you don't do the death rattle, you just die. There's shock, but no pain. Phil Klay, “Redeployment” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens  headline, The Onion, February 14, 2018, following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida © 2018 Kwiple.com
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 When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck, Sonja Sotomayer, dissent in Garland v. Cargill, in which the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority ruled that bump-stock-enabled semiautomatic rifles can't be banned because, technically, they are not machine guns, which can, even though they can be fired at the same rate of speed as machine guns  © 2024 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 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 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
Hypocrites say We have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a gun getting their name into the FBI files and we need to concentrate on that. Chuck “the Schmuck” Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa and lead sponsor of standalone legislation that made it easier for people adjudicated to be seriously mentally ill to buy guns and not have their name added to FBI files, commenting on the killing of 17 and wounding of 14 at a Parkland, Florida, high school by a mentally ill ex-student armed with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle he legally bought off-the-rack at a local gunshop  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary not now (not nou), adverbial phrase. According to leaders of the NRA, it's the only time to talk about gun control. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary trigger trash (trig'ər trash), n. (1) What gun lovers call the beer cans, car parts, sofas and other stuff they deposit in forests and on public lands for target practice (2) What others call the gun lovers © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say If guns don't kill people, send soldiers to war without them © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Prohibit private ownership of assault weapons and large capacity magazines © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Repeal laws immunizing gun manufacturers from legal suits based on gun violence © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require all American flags to be flown at half staff until mass shootings drop below one per year © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require registration of all firearms, including ballistic fingerprints © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require universal background checks for all gun gifts, sales and swaps © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “Authorities say the gunman had obtained the weapons legally” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Trump and his ilk call mass shootings “evil”  to imply they're part of human nature, and therefore can't be regulated © 2017 Kwiple.com
Libertarians say Anti-government advocates, like Cliven Bundy's supporters, should be excused for threatening law enforcement officers with guns © 2015 Kwiple.com
Makin' bacon Mmm … machine-gun bacon. Ha ha ha. Ted Cruz, relishing bacon cooked Texas-style by wrapping it around the barrel of an assault rifle and shooting until it reaches doneness © 2015 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Selling bulletproof backpacks for schoolkids © 2019 Kwiple.com
Mob violence I think her bodyguards should drop all weapons. I think they should disarm. Immediately. Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away, O.K. It'll be very dangerous. Donald Trump, again invoking the possibility of assassination as a way to prevent Hilllary Clinton from being elected  [without, being the chickenhawk he is, offering to disarm his own bodyguards] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Mob violence If she [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don't know. Donald Trump, suggesting gun rights supporters take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton is elected President and gets to choose Supreme Court judges © 2016 Kwiple.com
Nation-states In Max Weber's definition – a monopoly on legitimate violence – the US does not have a state at all. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 12, 2021 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Parenting LOL, I'm not mad at you. You have to learn not to get caught. Text message from Jennifer Crumbley, to her 15-year-old son Ethan Crumbley, after being informed by his school that a teacher saw him using his cellphone to search for ammunition during class, and a day before he used the 9mm semi- automatic handgun they bought for him as a gift to kill four students and wound six others and a teacher at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, outside Detroit, Michigan © 2021 Kwiple.com
Poor Whites They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them. Barack Obama © 2015 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage A little over a month after his inauguration, on Feb. 28, 2017, President Trump signed HJ Resolution 40, a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to obtain guns. CBS News then asked the White House to release the photograph of Mr. Trump signing the bill, making the request a total of 12 times. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders finally responded to repeated emails and phone calls with a one-line note on April 19, 2017, writing to CBS News, “We don't plan to release the picture at this time.” CBS News. February 15, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say Check the podium for for, like, a raw onion.  Andrea Tantaros, Fox News “Outnumbered” co-host, whose heartlessness, contrary to good sense, hasn't yet disqualified her from breeding, accusing Obama of shedding fake tears when recalling children killed as a result of gun violence © 2015 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say He must have been an incredibly good shot. Noël Coward, responding to being told that an acquaintance had “blown his brains out” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Which one? The proper response when asked, What do you think about yesterday's shooting? © 2021 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say If Germany had American gun laws, there would have never had been a Hitler. Tom Perkins © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing fugitives to buy guns – except those who crossed state lines specifically to avoid being captured – is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing those adjudicated to be seriously mentally ill to buy guns is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Letting hunters kill hibernating bears is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting people carry firearms on school property is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  Lowering the age at which people can carry concealed weapons is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say  The problem with guns is noise pollution. Making silencers cheap and easy to get is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for people who need semi-automatic assault weapons to hunt deer and varmints © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say You know we can't stop every act of gun violence, so why try to stop any? © 2015 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Vote them out! Chant, March For Our Lives rally, Washington, DC, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I was a strong supporter of the second amendment before the shooting and, frankly, as ardent as ever after the shooting in part because I was saved by people who had guns. Steve Scalise, after he and five others were shot during a practice session for the annual congressional baseball game in June, 2017, by a leftist extremist, who was shot dead on the scene by law enforcement officers © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie When I was president, I totally protected the guns. Donald Trump, August 8, 2024  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The gun lobby may hold Congress hostage, but they cannot hold America hostage. Barack Obama © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Many, if not most, NRA members are more reasonable than its leaders © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say The right to bear arms guarantees freedom © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say There's no place for gun violence in America Cliché following mass shootings or attempted assassinations © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The bitch got a gun! Marion Hammer, NRA leader and lobbyist, portrayed by a passenger in a car full of men who, she says, would have accosted her © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union Mass shootings increase gun sales, help investors make a killing © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union Our thoughts and prayers blah blah blah © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union c We're the world's leader in active shooter drills, by far and by necessity  © 2018 Kwiple.com
State of the union We sell Mexicans guns, they sell us drugs © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Gun owners say they add silencers to their guns to reduce damage to their ears  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Jeb Bush tweets a picture of a gun with his name engraved on it and the caption “America” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Trumpism What we’re seeing, I liken it to a land, sea and air attack. The land attack is on voting rights. That is one of the ways that you begin to undermine democracy. The sea attack are these attacks against  teaching critical race theory and “divisive” topics, so you can erase people from American history and  erase the role of various people in American history. And the air attack is the loosening of gun laws  that we're seeing in Texas, Tennessee and Georgia.  This is a full-blown assault on American democracy that’s going after voting rights, that's going after education and that is reinforcing political violence as an acceptable method of bringing about your political aims. Carol Anderson, New York Times Magazine, March 20, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The problem is the human heart, it’s not guns, it’s not the weapons. At the end of the day, we have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves, and that’s the Second Amendment, and that’s why our party stands so strongly for that. This is not the time to be talking about legislation. … In Europe and in other places, they use vehicles to mow down crowds at parades — where they’ve done that here at the United States. It’s not the weapon, it’s the underlying problem. Mike Johnson, October 27, 2023, a day after a shooter in Lewiston, Maine, killed 18 and wounded 13 in 2023's 565th mass shooting  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It’s time to reaffirm in law what exists in our Constitution  and in the hearts of our fellow Americans. We must abolish the legal duty of retreat everywhere. Matt Gaetz, proposing a nationwide stand-your-ground law © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  May we all  have guns and concealed carry to handle what’s coming! Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say They [“little Twitter trolls”] like to say: “Oh, Jesus didn’t need an AR-15. How many AR-15s do you think Jesus would have had?” Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him. Lauren Boebert © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say What, are you kidding me? I'm about to fly to Paris and shoot 'em in the head myself! … I am not OK with Syrian refugees. I'm not OK with terrorists. I'm OK with putting them down, blacking them out, just put a piece of brass in their ocular cavity and end their miserable life. I’m good with that. Michele Fiore, currently seeking Trump's endorsement in her run to become governor of Nevada, explaining her opposition to settling Syrian refugees in Nevada in 2015 © 2022 Kwiple.com