Quote of the Day

"Every time I write that maybe, just maybe, we should talk about guns, gun lovers send me the results of an NRA-cooked survey that found that 70 percent of Americans consider the Second Amendment...

"Carrying a gun comes with an implicit threat. Gun holders can, at any moment, kill the people around them, and college campuses cannot remain centers of free inquiry and exchange if students and faculty...

  "Maryland is armed to the teeth. We caused this rush, this stampede really, to purchase guns....It'll be a generation before the effects of this bill will be felt." - Maryland Delegate Luiz Simmons, Record gun...

"I don’t want to shoot him but if somebody comes here, sure I will shoot him. I’ll shoot him and I will kill him. If I’ve got to shoot my gun, you’re not going...

“Why should anyone have to retreat or take an ass-whipping if a criminal attacks them?” - Chuck LaRosa (not pictured above), Protesters rally against 'stand your ground' gun bill

"We live in a world where people are not bound by the law, and it takes more than law to stop them." - TTAG commentator Accur81 underneath "High Capacity Magazines”: Our Enemies Have ‘Em...

"These guys want nothing to do with the SAFE Act, and they are not going to enforce the SAFE Act, except if they have a bad guy and they are putting him under arrest...

"Law enforcement, we walk around with a target on our backs everywhere. We're outgunned out there. These long rifles - we don't have the ammunition to come close to that. Little loopholes like this...

  "'The authorities are turning a blind eye. They’re being bought off by the gun lobby and it makes America a dangerous place. When Elise goes to school that will definitely be in my mind. I...

“It’s absolutely grotesque to suggest that if my mom had a gun that the Newtown massacre may have somehow turned out differently. She was a mother and an educator — not a Marine. And...

"In all the years since the shooting, I have never come face-to-face with Franklin. I would love an hour in a room with him and a pair of wire-cutters and pliers, so I could...

"The most effective tool was changing the design of cars, and that's in large part why I believe that we and do the same thing with guns. We do have to try to get...