“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
“The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.”
Alan Keyes, U.S. Senate debate in Illinois, October 21, 2004. http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/media/debates/04_10_21debate2.htm. <br class="br">2009
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Theresa May (1956) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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“It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.”
Rudy Giuliani (1944–2001) American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City
Quoted in TIME Magazine, October 15, 1984. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923697-8,00.html
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Not found in Lenin's Collected Works. Began to surface on the internet in the mid-1990s.
Misattributed
Variant: One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.
“In the last Parliament, [the Liberal Party] enacted comprehensive gun control…”
Stephen Harper (1959) 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Isn't that what it says?
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control! If you're going to own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you're doing with it. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
So I support waiting periods and training requirements for gun ownership, and I like the idea that it shouldn't be incredibly easy to get guns. I support the right to carry concealed weapons, but I think people who want a concealed-weapons permit need to pass a training and safety course. The Constitution calls for a "well-regulated militia." In other words, you need to know how to use your weapon, and practice with it.
Where I draw the line is at gun registration. A law that says that everybody who owns a gun has to be on record is too easy to abuse.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 229
“I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
[The America We Deserve, w:Donald Trump, Donald, Trump, Dave, Shiflett, 2000, Renaissance Books, 1580631312]; [Trump's Evolving Positions on Gun Issues, Linda, Qiu, Kitty, Bennett, March 12, 2018, The New York Times, September 6, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/politics/trump-evolving-positions-gun-issues.html]
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