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20 QUOTES YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST HEAR AOUT GUNS

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20 Quotes You Absolutely Must Hear About Guns

03/21/2018 12:00 AM
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The debate over what our Founders considered the inalienable right to bear arms has raged front and center in America's culture war over the last few decades.

For many on the left, the men who founded our nation and set it on a path to greatness were deeply flawed, even immoral. And the Constitution they ratified, obsolete. That includes the right to keep and bear arms.

However, the political-economic system they designed propelled America from a backwater colony to the world's undisputed superpower in less than 200 years. Conservatives inherently recognize this. We also appreciate how tyrants have curtailed man's inalienable rights – including the right to self-defense – to unleash the greatest crimes in history.

These twenty quotes about guns from historical figures, celebrities, and politicians will inspire, surprise, and shock you. While some are predictable, like #5, others – including #3, #17, and #19 – are stunning.

1.) Thomas Jefferson

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“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.”

― Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was a leading Founding Father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. After the Revolutionary War, he served as the third President of the United States and is universally regarded as one of our nation's best chief executives.

2.) Alan M. Dershowitz

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By The Huntington (Flickr: Alan Dershowitz) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”

― Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer, constitutional and criminal law scholar, and bestselling author. He spent most of his career at Harvard University, where at age 27 he became the youngest professor in the prestigious institution's 381-year history.

3.) Adolf Hitler

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“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjugated races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.”

― Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler rose from obscurity to become the infamous leader of the Nazi Party and eventually Fuhrer of Germany. He led the German people to catastrophe in the Second World War, which claimed the lives of between 60 to 80 million people ― including six million Jews and five million other “undesirables” in Europe. Almost all of whom were unarmed and helpless to slow the Nazi war machine.

4.) George Mason

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By Albert Rosenthal (http://memory.loc.gov/award/icufaw/apc0009v.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“To disarm the people... [i]s the most effectual way to enslave them.”

― George Mason

George Mason was a Virginian farmer, politician, and delegate to the constitutional convention of 1787.

5.) James Madison

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By John Vanderlyn (1775–1852) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”

― James Madison

Another Founding Father, James Madison served as the fourth president of the United States.

6.) Mao Zedong

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By unidentified graphic designers, adapted by "The Shining Path" ([1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”

― Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a communist revolutionary, founder of the People's Republic of China, and has the dishonorable distinction of being one of the worst human beings in history. The estimated number of Chinese who died during his 27-year-reign range from 40 to 70 million.

7.) Frederick Douglass

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“A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”

― Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a famous abolitionist, orator, and writer.

8.) Benito Mussolini

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By Muzej Revolucije Narodnosti Jugoslavije (USHMM Photograph #89908) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements .... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.”

― Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician who rose to become the leader of his country's National Fascist Party. He was elected Prime Minister, but shortly after that dropped any pretense of democracy and established a dictatorship. In World War II, he threw his support behind the Axis Powers, thereby sealing his fate.

9.) Niccolo Machiavelli

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“When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.”

― Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat and philosopher during the Renaissance period. He is regarded by many as the father of modern political science.

10.) Diane Feinstein

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By United States Congress, US Senate Photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“If I could have banned them all - 'Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns' - I would have!”

― Diane Feinstein

Diane Feinstein is the senior U.S. Senator from California. She's a member of the Democratic Party. Her first high-profile office held was as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.

11.) Saint Augustine

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“Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.”

― Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine was a third-century Christian theologian and philosopher whose teachers were instrumental in shaping the core tenets of the early church.

12.) Vladimir Lenin

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By Wilhelm Plier [Public domain, Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”

― Vladimir Lenin

Lenin was a communist revolutionary who brought about the end of the 300-year Romanov Dynasty in Russia. After defeating anti-communist forces in a bloody civil war, he established the Soviet Union, which he ruled from 1917 to 1924. Although his reputation is relatively intact, both inside Russia and among leftists worldwide, the body count from his seven years in power exceeds Genghis Khan's.

13.) Joe Wurzelbacher

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By Rona Proudfoot from Lorain, Ohio (Joe the Plumber in Elyria today) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

“In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.”

― Joe Wurzelbacher

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, also known as Joe the Plumber, is an entrepreneur, conservative activist, and political commentator.

14.) Rosie O'Donnell

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“I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say 'Sorry.' it's 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison.”

― Rosie O'Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell is a comedian, actress, and longtime TV personality. She's known for her far-left views.

15.) Thomas Sowell

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“As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking ― or lack of thinking.”

― Thomas Sowell

At the age of 87, Thomas Sowell remains a Senior Fellow at the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution. He is one of America's preeminent economists and prolific authors.

16.) George Orwell

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“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”

― George Orwell

George Orwell was of the twentieth century's most famous novelists. Although an outspoken liberal on most issues he had a healthy distaste for totalitarianism.

17.) Joseph Stalin

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By Helsingin Sanomat, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10302942

“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”

― Joseph Stalin

Hitler, Mao, and Stalin are all finalist for the most brutal dictators in history. Millions of Stalin's citizens went to Siberian gulags for trivial offenses. Meanwhile, his political enemies ― both real and imagined ― were executed en masse over perceived threats. His iron-fist rule led to the deaths of some 20 million Soviets and initial shortsightedness contributed to the massive loss of life in the war with Hitler's Germany.

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18.) Clint Eastwood

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“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

― Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood is an iconic actor, Academy Award-winning director, and leading conservative.

19.) Barack Obama

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“I don’t believe people should to be able to own guns.”

― Barack Obama (during a conversation with economist and author John Lott Jr. at the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s)

Barack Obama is a Democratic Party leader who served as the 44th President of the United States.

20.) Ronald Reagan

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and passed on ... or we will spend our sunset years telling our children's children what it was like in the United States when men were free.”

― Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan was an actor-turned-conservative politician who became the 40th president of the United States, and whose policies hastened the demise of the Soviet Union.

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