Wayne LaPierre Quotes

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Wayne LaPierre

Profession : Activist

Birth : November 8, 1949

If the U.N. gun-ban treaty is ever signed and ratified into law, we may never get a second chance to save the Second Amendment.

Wayne LaPierre

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.

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Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

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If the U.S. refused to take part in the U.N.'s international gun registry, other nations could potentially ban their domestic firearm manufacturers from exporting firearms to the United States.

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Parents all over the country are using their right to keep and bear arms to protect their kids.

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From Obama to Michael Bloomberg, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and the rest of the media-political elite, the whole time they're attacking your right to own a gun, they're enjoying armed security for themselves.

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We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere, for anyone.

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If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.

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There are only two reasons to compile list of gun owners: to tax them or to take them.

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Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

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The whole idea from some of our opponents that armed security makes us less safe is completely ridiculous. If that's true, armed security makes us less safe, let's just go ahead and remove it from everywhere.

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With all the foreign aid the United State does... can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?

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There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games.

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We can't lose precious time debating legislation that won't work.

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A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn't a bad word.

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Well, what every place needs is a security plan that protects it.

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We need a full-court press on personal protection. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

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I think we need national carry reciprocity.

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President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

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Elites don't care not one whit about school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is protect them.

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