Quotes on Guns..

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"[T]he gun lobby is the majority of the American people. It’s not a lobby that’s stopping all this [gun control legislation]. The reason that the lobby is strong is because it represents overwhelming opinion in the United States. And how do we know that? The president of the United States, who had this tremendous opening if he wanted to push the issue of guns after a tragedy of this magnitude could easily have done it and he has assiduously stayed away from it because he knows it’s a losing political proposition." –columnist Charles Krauthammer

"[T]he chain that owns the theater where the [Colorado] massacre took place has a no-weapons policy, which oddly enough did not deter the shooter any more than Colorado’s strict laws against murder did." –Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto

"When a radio host asked me what I thought of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., I had to ask for clarification. I said: ‘What do you mean? Who could deny it’s an unspeakable tragedy?’ What he was really asking me was to address it in a political context. The problem is that I don’t believe there was any political context to the shooting; not everything is political. But unfortunately, elements of the left seemed determined to graft political implications onto the event, irrespective of the absence of any factual basis for doing so. They seized on it both to demonize grass-roots conservatives and to pump new life into their perennial campaign against the Second Amendment." –columnist David Limbaugh

"The news media … believe they have a higher calling than reporting news. In order to understand this, I offer this anecdote. A number of years ago, I was asked to moderate a panel of judges that included a former, very liberal, California Supreme Court justice. At one point, the justice said that his role as a judge was to fight inequality, poverty and racism. … People on the left think the way the judge did. The primary purpose of every profession, as they see it, is to increase what they call social justice. … So when [ABC's] Brian Ross linked the Aurora mass murderer to the Tea Party, in his mind, he was doing the right thing. Is there one person in America who believes that if Ross had discovered a James Holmes in Aurora active in the ACLU, he would have reported it? … [D]efeating the right is more important than moral or factual accuracy." –columnist Dennis Prager

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