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"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."  --Susan B. Anthony

"You can spout all the anti-gun noise you want. You can tell me guns are 'macho' and 'masculine', and accuse me of trying to be like the 'big boys' if I carry one. I don't care. I've been raped, and I've decided that I would much rather defend myself than sit back quietly and be 'ladylike'." --Julie Batson**

"Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol."  --Lori Broadhead, National Director, AFA

"Even if it were possible for the government to commandeer every gun in the country, do we really want the assault on civil liberties such a plan would entail?" --Linda Chavez, CCRKBA Defender of the Month, September 2000

"What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here."  --Julie Cochrane*****

"If the courts started interpreting the Second Amendment the way they interpret the First, we'd have a right to bear nuclear arms by now."  --Ann Coulter, "Annie's Got Her Gun"

"The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. Otherwise you may never become a mom."  --Ann Coulter*****

"The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits."  --Ann Coulter*****

"Personally, I don't think that"[stricter gun control laws] "would have any effect, because what it does is make it harder for law-abiding citizens who want to get weapons to protect their homes and families to get weapons; because criminals are gonna get them if they want 'em."  --Tina Dillard, DeKalb County, Georgia police officer; NBC-TV Today show, 9/17/93*****

"I'm secure enough in my self-esteem that I know I cannot handle a 150-pound guy coming at me, but I can handle a firearm to keep that man away from me." --Maria Heil, CNSNews.com report, 4/30/2003

"I'm surprised that anyone would be against a woman's personal privacy and her ability to defend herself from a violent ex-boyfriend or husband." --Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp (TX), Re. Access Bill, 2/12/03

"Currently, if a bad guy is determining which home on a particular block he wants to rob, all he has to do is request the information and he knows which houses have guns [that have a valuable resale]."  --Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp (TX), "Lawmaker fears criminals 'access to licensees' data"

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." --Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp (TX)*****

"The Second Amendment isn't about protecting ourselves against criminals. It's about all of us protecting ourselves from all of you."  ---Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp to Congressman Charles Schumer (D-NY), 1994**

"Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not keep Hennard from coming in and killing everybody! What it did do, was keep me from protecting my family!"  --Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, Killeen Texas Luby's massacre survivor**

"Somewhere along the line I made one of my stupidest decisions... I was afraid that ... if ... somebody caught me with the gun in my purse, I could lose my license to practice, lose my ability to make a living. So I took the gun out of my purse and I left it in my car ... which the laws in my state are kinda wishy- washy on ...and I thought, 'Heck, if I needed it, it's probably going to be when I'm out on the road ... in the middle of nowhere and, you know, my car's broke down or something."  --Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, Killeen Texas Luby's massacre survivor**

"Unlike the prohibitionists, who masquerade behind mythical statistics for which they seldom provide precise references, we do not seek to impose our values on everyone else. Let every person be free to make his or her own choices and assume the consequences." --Claire Joly, "Why Gun Control Is Not The Right Answer"

"Tell them you will no longer put up with their un-American stand on guns and law-abiding citizens will not "obey" any more unconstitutional  junk gun laws. "  --Devvy Kidd*

"Freedom cannot be attained and retained by observers.  Freedom gained and kept can only be achieved with a warrior class who will stand firm and who will live the words they speak. ... Will the gun owners of America just sit back in their comfort zone, drink beer, watch football, write a check and let someone else continue the losing battle for their God-given rights?"  --Devvy Kidd*

"Our heroes as kids were characters like Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger. Those programs had recurring themes of justice, truth, fair play and treating people with dignity.  Firearms were portrayed positively as an instrument of protecting the weak and defeating evil." -- Karen MacNutt, Republican candidate for Attorney General in Massachusetts*****

"Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education [proponents] at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not usage. why, then, doesn't the same logic apply to guns?"  --Michelle Malkin, Syndicated columnist*****

"This is the state of the gun debate in North America. Maria's two daughters — aged 10 and 12 — had to hear their mother called a criminal for legally owning a gun by a woman who boasts of illegally owning one." --Wendy McElroy, 5/6/2003, mac@ifeminists.net, "Women With Guns Fight Back" (regarding the John Walsh show on 4/29/2003)

"As lawmakers in our nation's highest legislative body, we must fight to preserve the Constitutional right for individual citizens to keep and bear arms.  While many in our nation's capital seek to chip away at the right of firearm ownership and possession, the 2nd Amendment Caucus is committed to defending lawful gun owner's constitutional rights in our nation, without compromise.  Their voice will be heard in Congress." --Colorado Congress-woman Marilyn Musgrave, 4/26/04

"Someone better tell Kerry that when a mother bear is defending her young she is unstoppable."  --Shemane Nugent, May, 2004

"When I’m with a pistol I sparkle like a crystal,  yes I shine like the morning sun." --Annie Oakley

"If I want to have a gun in my purse, that should be my choice, not the sheriff's." --Sen. Julianne Ortman, R-Chanhassen, MN, 4/28/2003

"The fact that some anti-gun groups call for the wholesale confiscation and elimination of guns tells me one thing…they want to see me naked in my desperation, clutching a telephone, begging for the police to come before the intruder violates my home, my body, my child. To secure their peace of mind, they would leave me exposed to certain victimhood, rather than allowing me to empower myself and defend my God-given right to live and to protect my family."  --Linda Prussen-Razzano, "So You Want To See Me Naked?"****

"Sentient beings who give up the intrinsic (not government given) right to carry weapons for self defense don't last very long.  They quickly get overrun by the predators who, while short on morality, are rather longer on common sense."  --Helen Rhine, 1995*****

"In more than seven scenes with crooks wielding automatic machine guns, hand rocket-missile launchers, and plain old hand guns, the "Angels" -- miracle of miracles-- thwart the weapons with only high kicks, flips, and chop blocks. Yeah, like that would really happen."  --Debbie Schlussel, Jewish World Review Columnist, 12/10/2000***

"Whoever controls the firepower controls the state, which is why the insistence of the various UN and liberal American globalists that average citizens surrender their guns."  --"Written in June, 2004, from Occupied America" by Dorothy Anne Seese.

"Public attitude that women and children need not worry about protecting themselves because men are our protectors is blatant hypocrisy and a dangerous ongoing myth. The only gun control that women should be screaming at the top of their lungs for is that which allows them the right to bear arms while utilizing both hands to control it during use."  --FMS, Women To Arms editorial for Truth Or Consequences, 9/17/99

"I agree that all the rest of our rights have been resting on our critical 2nd.  But, for WTA puposes, The 2nd isn't a resting place.  It's the front line!  Without it the rest of our rights will perish." --FMS, WTA email forum, 1/10/03

"We live in a world where more and more women are unaccompanied at odd hours, or they are vulnerable in dangerous places — a world where restraining orders are often ineffective and the police cannot be counted upon to arrive in time, if at all.  In such a world, women must be able to protect themselves. In terms of both deterrence and lethal force, guns are among the most effective tools available for self-defense." --Mary Zeiss Stange, "Guns, like abortion, are a matter of choice", posted 5/5/04

"Personally I think allowing citizens to arm themselves would go a lot farther in decreasing violent crime in the City than putting more cops on the streets." --Samantha Stewart, WTA email forum, 6/24/03

"No one focused on the fact that Lisa, and I are both survivors of physical violence and violent crimes.  Even  though we are both well educated, well trained gun safety advocates, we were discriminated against based on our gender and John Walsh contributed to that discrimination.  I interpreted his show (4/29/03) to state that it is ok for a man like himself to own a firearm, but because we are women somehow we were not as qualified as he is." --Tiffany Hyatt Theriot, "A note from Tiffany"

"In being confronted by the reality that government cannot and will not guarantee my personal safety, I am infinitely thankful, both as a woman and an American, that the Bill of Rights still guarantees my right to defend myself with a gun.  Any true feminist must support this position.  Any woman who claims to be a feminist, but who supports disarmament of law-abiding citizens is simply a dangerous hypocrite." --Katherine von Tour, "My Transformation From Anti-Gun Feminist To Armed Feminist"

"Like 'em or hate 'em, these once-peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany.  Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry. Very." --Claire Wolfe, 5/20/99

"He's a very worthy opponent.  I still disagree with him philosophically, but I respect what he has done for his fight on the issue." --Sarah Brady, 4/24/03, regarding Heston

"They are looking only to protect gun owners' quote — and I stress that — rights, because I don't believe gun owners have rights. The Second Amendment has never been interpreted that way.  Now I am not for taking guns away or denying guns to law-abiding citizens, but I don't think it's a constitutional right that they have, and every court case that's ever come down has shown that." --Sarah Brady, 10/97**

"[The Brady Bill] is not going to stop crimes of passion or drug related crime" --Sarah Brady*****

"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough." --Sarah Brady, 7/1/98*****

"We must get rid of all the guns." --Sarah Brady, for HCI on the Phil Donahue Show, 9/94*****

"We must be able to arrest people before they commit crimes. By registering guns and knowing who has them we can do that... If they have guns they are pretty likely to commit a crime." --Vermont State Senator Mary Ann Carlson**

"Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year." --Marian Wright Edelman, CDF founder, Houston Chronicle, 4/30/99**

"I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily." --Jocelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General, Mother Jones magazine, Jan/Feb '94

"I think you have to do it a step at a time and I think that is what the NRA is most concerned about. Is that it will happen one very small step at a time so that by the time, um, people have woken up, quote, to what's happened, it's gone farther than what they feel the consensus of American citizens would be. But it does have to go one step at a time and the banning of semi-assault military weapons that are military weapons, not household weapons, is the first step." --Mayor Barbara Fass, Stockton California**

"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in," I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here." --U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," February 5, 1995, speaking about her authorship of the 1994 "assault weapons" ban**

"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of Americans to feel safe." --U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, quoted by the Associated Press, November 18, 1993**

"If someone attacks you with a knife or gun, say "I know you're upset".  We all want to be valued as human beings." --Jessica Flagg, MMM spokeswomen at the Four Percent of a Million Moms March in DC, 2000*****

"Ban the damn things (guns).  Ban them all.  You want protection? Get a dog." --Molly Ivins, columnist, 7/19/94*****

"You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here."  --Mary McGrory, Arizona Daily Star columnist, 3/11/93**

"I honestly think — and I am not an expert on the amendments — I think the only people in this nation who should be allowed to own guns are police officers. I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, 'Sorry. It is 1999, we have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison.'"  --Rosie O'Donnell, 4/21/99**

"Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose."  --U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno**

"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal." --U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno******

"I especially want to thank you for standing by me on the day we say 'No' to amateur gunslingers who somehow think they're going to be braver and smarter with a gun in their hand." --Ann Richards, former Texas Gov., while vetoing a CCW bill (Reported on page 10 of the March 6, 1994 'Voter's Guide' section of the Dallas Morning News*****

"I am certainly not anti-gun by any means. I even enjoy shooting a gun myself. I believe that they can have value for certain things, such as self-defense."  --Sarah Brady of HCI, quoted in the January 1992 issue of Crimebeat magazine*****

"And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me." --U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), during U.S. Senate hearings on terrorism held in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 1995*****

"The incidents piled up but the police never arrested Davidson. Instead, they expressed annoyance at Cathy Ford's frequent calls, telling her there was nothing they could do, that they were not a ''baby-sitting'' service, that she should buy a gun if she wanted real protection." --Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe, 5/13/98*****