Quote of the Day
The right to keep and bear arms is among the most cherished liberties secured by our Constitution and rooted in the timeless truth that our rights are endowed by Almighty God, not granted by government. This foundational freedom depends upon citizens who exercise it with discipline, integrity, and care, understanding that the blessings of liberty are preserved through personal responsibility and a steadfast commitment to the common good.
The White House
August 10, 2026
Presidential Message on National Shooting Sports Month – The White House
See also Presidential Message on National Shooting Sports Month – The White House from August 4, 2026
Compare to:
- “We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.”
Barak Obama
July 12, 2016
Barack Obama offers flawed comparison between teens’ ease in obtaining Glocks vs. books – PolitiFact - “We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths.”
Barack Obama
October 1, 2016
Obama: More gun laws means fewer gun deaths – PolitiFact - “We’re the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this frequency.”
Barack Obama
June 18, 2015
Is Barack Obama correct that mass killings don’t happen in other countries? – PolitiFact - “You know, we can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles—it’s something I strongly support—we can’t be so fixated on that that we are unable to think about the reality of life that millions of Americans face on streets that are unsafe, under conditions that no other nation—no other nations—has permitted to exist.
BIll Clinton
March 1, 1993
Debunked: “We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary .. | Metabunk
* Although the topics are different, the lyrics to the song have some relevant lines.
As Stalin said, one death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic. The kind of killing perpetrated by private actors, while a tragedy, pales beside the killing perpetrated by governments. And even among the private sector perps, firearms are not the most dangerous instruments. 9-11 is the obvious case in point but in smaller scale cases bombs or a simple can of gas are much more dangerous. To this day, the worst school massacre in US history (1927 Bath Township) was done with bombs by a school board member. He was acting in his personal capacity rather than his official one but he did use his official status to gain access to plant the bombs. He later targeted rescue workers with a car bomb.
The Happy Land nightclub killings were done with a can of gas and killed 87. OKC was a truck bomb. Both caused more deaths than any shooting incidents.