“How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence?”

Like it or not the American people support the term ‘background check.’

How many more tragedies does it take before we do something?

They support the concept of it even though they know it won’t work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure ‘well if criminals aren’t supposed to have guns what’s the big deal about a background check,’

The Brady ‘Campaign Against Illegal Guns’ is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners – and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime.

You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.

A gun doesn’t have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn’t the gun.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.

An armed society is a polite society.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.