When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. Wayne LaPierre More Quotes by Wayne LaPierre More Quotes From Wayne LaPierre The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Wayne LaPierre guygunimportant Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people. Wayne LaPierre mediagungames First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns Wayne LaPierre zerobelieveschool The presence of a firearm makes us all safer. Wayne LaPierre firearms Laws can't control the lawless. Wayne LaPierre gun-controlgunlaw The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January. Wayne LaPierre gunchildrenschool I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence. Wayne LaPierre levelspresidentthinking When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them. Wayne LaPierre criminalsissueshonest We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone. Wayne LaPierre criminalsgunthinking We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. Wayne LaPierre wallbrotheramerica We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. Wayne LaPierre styledrugpeople Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves. Wayne LaPierre protectableneeds How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill? Wayne LaPierre wallmediawings All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term. Wayne LaPierre second-amendmentvotersgun The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. Wayne LaPierre stormwallbrother There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games... Wayne LaPierre gamescountrypeople Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living. Wayne LaPierre criminalslawattention Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves. Wayne LaPierre abidinglawpeople Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure. Wayne LaPierre despairdarknesspeople Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk. Wayne LaPierre gunlawschool
