Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2015, Address to the Nation by the President on San Bernardino (December 2015)
“A gun is not an argument.”
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
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Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
On Heath High School shooting where a teenaged gunman killed 3 students at a prayer meeting at the school, on Politically Incorrect (18 December 1997).
1980s-90s
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
“The quickest way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
Mike Pence (1959) 48th Vice President of the United States
Excerpt from address given to the National Rifle Association in Dallas, Texas — https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-the-quickest-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-pence-says-at-nra-convention (May 4, 2018) <br class="br">Vice President of the United States (2017-Present)
“Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns.”
Timothy Garton Ash (1955) British historian and author
Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns, 01.02.2015, Timothy Garton Ash, 01.02.2015, The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/01/putin-stopped-ukraine-military-support-russian-propaganda,
“Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Quick and the Dead (1973), Ch. 5; the statement here wrongly attributed by a character in the story to a Quaker, who are generally pacifists, is actually one usually attributed to the Puritan, Oliver Cromwell.
Context: Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,"Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry."
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Chapter 9 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch09.htm, originally published in the Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)