Yup, they REALLY said that

From one perspective or another the following are real quotes from real people.

“Guns are not merely the instrument; guns are the issue.
The more guns there are, the more gun violence happens.”

Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, July 8, 2016

“How easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon to shoot people n a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theatre or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be.”

President Barack Obama, June 12, 2016

“If the intent of HB 859 [Georgia’s proposed campus-carry legislation] is to increase safety of students on college campuses, it is highly questionable that such would be the result.”

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal

“We have to make it harder for people who want to kill Americans to get their hands on weapons of war.”

President Obama, June 14, 2016

“I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances. But based on my experience as president, I can’t guarantee that — and that’s terrible to say.”
President Obama, October 1, 2015
“I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.”

Dr. Ben Carson, GOP Candidate for the presidency of the United States of America
“Since 9/11, 74 people have been killed in the United States by terrorists … more than 150,000 Americans have been killed in gun homicides, and we have done … nothing.”

Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post, July 31, 2015
“Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard [mass shootings] the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is incapable of addressing.”

The Economist, June 18, 2015
“I’m governor of New York and there’s nothing I can say and there’s nothing I can do…. And sometimes it just hurts.”
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo on the critically-injured Carey Gabay, attorney in the Cuomo Administration
“Between September 2001 and June 2012, nearly 6,500 American troops were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq; during that same period, more than 11,700 women died in acts of domestic violence.”

Renée Graham, Boston Globe, August 17, 2015
“Since 9/11, 74 people have been killed in the United States by terrorists … more than 150,000 Americans have been killed in gun homicides, and we have done … nothing.”

Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post, July 31, 2015
“Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard [mass shootings] the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is incapable of addressing.”

The Economist, June 18, 2015
“[The USA is] a nation whose people are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of most other developed countries.”
Tim Egan, New York Times, July 31, 2015
“On at least six high-profile and often contentious issues — [including] gun control — voters approved ballot measures, in some cases overwhelmingly, that were directly at odds with the positions of many of the Republican winners.”
Editorial, The New York Times, November 5, 2014
“In states with expanded background checks, 38% fewer women are killed by guns from intimate partners and 39% fewer law enforcement officers are killed by guns.”
Kelley Byrdsong, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, November 7, 2014
“What in the name of Jesus is wrong with us, Americans? Automatic weapons as toys?”
Quoted by Timothy R. Williams, NY Times, August 27, 2014
“In a September 2013 investigation of illegal online gun sales…, Everytown [for Gun Safety] found that 1 in 30 people seeking guns from unlicensed sellers on the national website Armslist.com had a criminal record or domestic violence history that prohibited gun ownership.”
Everytown for Gun Safety study, 2013
“As a doctor, I believe that asking this question is part of my sworn duty. Many of my patients wish that a doctor had asked them sooner about gun safety.”
William B. Jordan, President-elect of the National Physicians Alliance, letter to NY Times Editor, August 4, 2014
“We have to end this fetishization of guns … We’re like a strip club with a million bouncers and no strippers.”
Bill Maher on Real Time, April 12, 2013
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“If a bullet cost $5000, people think before they pay $5000 … I’m gonna blow your ****in’ head off … if I could afford it!” Chris Rock on “bullet control,” two days before Newtown.
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“Guns SAVE lives…. The only way to stop an evil person is to shoot him.” Steve Dulan, Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners
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“I’m worried that gun-control laws … have killed people.” John R. Lott, Jr., on Piers Morgan Tonight, 2/28/13
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“Lying in wait right now is a terrorist, a deranged school shooter, a kidnapper, a rapist, a murderer, waiting and planning and plotting …” Wayne LaPierre at the 2013 NRA Convention, The Daily Show, 5/6/13
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“The only difference between your Mom and sister getting raped and then walking home unmolested is a gun.” Glenn Beck at the 2013 NRA Convention, The Daily Show, 5/6/13
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“Martin Luther King would agree with me if he were alive today … If Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from Day One of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.” Larry Ward, Chairman Gun Appreciatiuon Day, The Daily Show, 1/17/13
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“[President Obama] is not a king … He’s even using children … He kinda reminds me of Saddam Hussein when he used kids.”
US Rep Steve Stockman (R-TX36)
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“If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted.”
US Rep Steve Stockman (R-TX36)
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“For women, the ability to arm ourselves for our protection is even more consequential than for men because guns are the great equalizer in a violent confrontation.”
Gayle Trotter, NRA-affiliated Independent Women’s Forum, Atlantic Wire, timeless
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“Do you think he [the gun owner] is sorry?”
[NY Times Joe Nocera] asked. “Sorry for what?” she replied, before hanging up [woman answering phone at home of gun owner who had left loaded armed firearm unsecured while vacation house was regularly checked by local friend. Intruder used unsecured firearm to kill neighborly friend] …. NY Times 5/4/13
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“One of the things we need are parents — parents — to be more careful and repetitive at telling their kids that it is not right to kill people.”
US Senator (R-WY) Mike Enz i on John Stewart’s Daily Show, 4/18/13
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“… [President Obama] doesn’t know how to work the system. And it’s clear now that he doesn’t want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him.”
Maureen Dowd, NY Times, 4/20/13
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“And the problem is once you draw that limit [of 10 rounds to a semi-automatic gun clip]; it’s kind of like marriage when you say it’s not a man and a woman any more, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?”
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), February, 2013
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“… When people go on and say, we have to get rid of guns, we got to push for gun control, it’s just ridiculous. It’s like pushing for pressure cooker control after the [Boston Marathon] explosion.”
State Senator Stacey Campfield (R-TN) on CNN, 4/24/13

“I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?”
– Arkansas State Senator Nate Bell, 4/19/13
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“As you mentioned, if these guys [the Boston Marathon terrorists] got [their guns] through a loophole … we could see a whole new dimension to the gun control debate.”
Kevin Cirilli, Politico, 4/23/13
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“That one [Tucson Arizona’s gun buy-back program] makes me think of what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 … Shades of what helped to lead to the Holocaust.”
Charles Heller on the Daily Show, 4/1/13
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“Taking on the NRA can be political suicide … Getting re-elected [is the top priority of a US Senator] … If I could re-wind this tape, I’d say getting legislation done and getting re-elected [are the top two priorities, in that order].”
Jim Manley, Aide to US Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, on the Daily Show, 4/23/13
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“I can’t think of anything I support [about gun regulation] because at the end of the day none of it works … If I were to go to “Planet X” [AKA Australia] … in the real world with human beings, it’s not gonna work and gun control isn’t going to work.”
Philip Van Cleave, Gun Lobbyist, Virginia Defense League on the Daily Show, 4/18/13
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“Well, whoop-de-doo” [on Australia’s uncontested success in stopping mass shootings]
Philip Van Cleave again, 4/18/13
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“Yes, well, whoop-de-****ing-do
John Oliver responding to Philip van Cleave on the Daily Show, 4/18/13
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“I warned them [the GOP]. I’m a Second Amendment guy. I warned them. Sometimes you have to give a little. They didn’t do it after Newtown.”
Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe, 4/24/13
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End the Madness Now

Yup, they REALLY said that

From one perspective or another the following are real quotes from real people.

“Guns are not merely the instrument; guns are the issue.
The more guns there are, the more gun violence happens.”

“How easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon to shoot people n a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theatre or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be.”

President Barack Obama, June 12, 2016

“If the intent of HB 859 [Georgia’s proposed campus-carry legislation] is to increase safety of students on college campuses, it is highly questionable that such would be the result.”

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal

“We have to make it harder for people who want to kill Americans to get their hands on weapons of war.”

President Obama, June 14, 2016

“I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances. But based on my experience as president, I can’t guarantee that — and that’s terrible to say.”
President Obama, October 1, 2015

“I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.”

Dr. Ben Carson, GOP Candidate for the presidency of the United States of America

“Since 9/11, 74 people have been killed in the United States by terrorists … more than 150,000 Americans have been killed in gun homicides, and we have done … nothing.”

Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post, July 31, 2015

“Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard [mass shootings] the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is incapable of addressing.”

The Economist, June 18, 2015

“I’m governor of New York and there’s nothing I can say and there’s nothing I can do…. And sometimes it just hurts.”
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo on the critically-injured Carey Gabay, attorney in the Cuomo Administration

“Between September 2001 and June 2012, nearly 6,500 American troops were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq; during that same period, more than 11,700 women died in acts of domestic violence.”

Renée Graham, Boston Globe, August 17, 2015

“Since 9/11, 74 people have been killed in the United States by terrorists … more than 150,000 Americans have been killed in gun homicides, and we have done … nothing.”

Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post, July 31, 2015

“Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard [mass shootings] the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is incapable of addressing.”

The Economist, June 18, 2015

“[The USA is] a nation whose people are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of most other developed countries.”
Tim Egan, New York Times, July 31, 2015

“On at least six high-profile and often contentious issues — [including] gun control — voters approved ballot measures, in some cases overwhelmingly, that were directly at odds with the positions of many of the Republican winners.”
Editorial, The New York Times, November 5, 2014

“In states with expanded background checks, 38% fewer women are killed by guns from intimate partners and 39% fewer law enforcement officers are killed by guns.”
Kelley Byrdsong, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, November 7, 2014

“What in the name of Jesus is wrong with us, Americans? Automatic weapons as toys?”
Quoted by Timothy R. Williams, NY Times, August 27, 2014

“As a doctor, I believe that asking this question is part of my sworn duty. Many of my patients wish that a doctor had asked them sooner about gun safety.”
William B. Jordan, President-elect of the National Physicians Alliance, letter to NY Times Editor, August 4, 2014

From one perspective or another the following are real quotes from real people.

President Barack Obama, June 12, 2016

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal

President Obama, June 14, 2016

“I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances. But based on my experience as president, I can’t guarantee that — and that’s terrible to say.” President Obama, October 1, 2015

Dr. Ben Carson, GOP Candidate for the presidency of the United States of America

Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post, July 31, 2015

The Economist, June 18, 2015

“I’m governor of New York and there’s nothing I can say and there’s nothing I can do…. And sometimes it just hurts.” NY Governor Andrew Cuomo on the critically-injured Carey Gabay, attorney in the Cuomo Administration

Renée Graham, Boston Globe, August 17, 2015

Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post, July 31, 2015

The Economist, June 18, 2015

“[The USA is] a nation whose people are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of most other developed countries.” Tim Egan, New York Times, July 31, 2015

“On at least six high-profile and often contentious issues — [including] gun control — voters approved ballot measures, in some cases overwhelmingly, that were directly at odds with the positions of many of the Republican winners.” Editorial, The New York Times, November 5, 2014

“In states with expanded background checks, 38% fewer women are killed by guns from intimate partners and 39% fewer law enforcement officers are killed by guns.” Kelley Byrdsong, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, November 7, 2014

“What in the name of Jesus is wrong with us, Americans? Automatic weapons as toys?” Quoted by Timothy R. Williams, NY Times, August 27, 2014

“As a doctor, I believe that asking this question is part of my sworn duty. Many of my patients wish that a doctor had asked them sooner about gun safety.” William B. Jordan, President-elect of the National Physicians Alliance, letter to NY Times Editor, August 4, 2014

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“I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as president to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances. But based on my experience as president, I can’t guarantee that — and that’s terrible to say.”
President Obama, October 1, 2015

“I’m governor of New York and there’s nothing I can say and there’s nothing I can do…. And sometimes it just hurts.”
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo on the critically-injured Carey Gabay, attorney in the Cuomo Administration

“[The USA is] a nation whose people are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of most other developed countries.”
Tim Egan, New York Times, July 31, 2015

“On at least six high-profile and often contentious issues — [including] gun control — voters approved ballot measures, in some cases overwhelmingly, that were directly at odds with the positions of many of the Republican winners.”
Editorial, The New York Times, November 5, 2014

“In states with expanded background checks, 38% fewer women are killed by guns from intimate partners and 39% fewer law enforcement officers are killed by guns.”
Kelley Byrdsong, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, November 7, 2014

“What in the name of Jesus is wrong with us, Americans? Automatic weapons as toys?”
Quoted by Timothy R. Williams, NY Times, August 27, 2014

“As a doctor, I believe that asking this question is part of my sworn duty. Many of my patients wish that a doctor had asked them sooner about gun safety.”
William B. Jordan, President-elect of the National Physicians Alliance, letter to NY Times Editor, August 4, 2014