Wayne LaPierre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Gun #Gun Control #Guy
Laws can't control the lawless.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Gun #Law #Gun Control
Guns donâ€™t kill people. Video games, the media and Obamaâ€™s budget kill people.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Gun #Media #Games
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#People #Darkness #Despair
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Freedom #Light #Liberty
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

#Gun #Second Amendment #Voters
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

#People #Drug #Style
The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Sides #Republican #Ownership
Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense. I believe that we will prevail.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Believe #San Francisco #Common Sense
What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Order #Law #Second Amendment
For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Guessing #Criminals #Legal System
If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Gun #Iraq #Save A Life
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

#Brother #Wall #Storm
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

#Law #Criminals #Attention
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

#Brother #Wall #America
One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about, .
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Atmosphere #President #Bail
I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Thinking #Gun #Air
If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Children #Crazy #School
First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Zero #Believe #School
How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame â€” from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave â€” 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

#Wall #Media #Wings
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

#Gun #Thinking #Criminals
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyoneâ€™s graffiti.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Graffiti #Principles #Constitution
We need to haveÂ every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to workÂ â€”and by that I mean armed security.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#School #Mean #America
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.
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Country #Games #People
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

#School #Gun #Law
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

#Children #School #Gun
When it comes to the issue of background checks, letâ€™s be honest â€“ background checks will never be 'universal' â€“ because criminals will never submit to them,
-- Wayne LaPierre

#Issues #Criminals #Honest

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