Assault Weapon Ban

Famous quotes containing the words assault weapon, assault, weapon and/or ban:

    “I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.”
    —Charles S. Robb (b. 1939)

    “What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—
    These Gentlewomen are—
    One would as soon assault a Plush—
    Or violate a Star—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “But what is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of reason.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “So in peace our tasks we ply,
    Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;
    In our arts we find our bliss,
    I have mine and he has his.”
    —Unknown. Pangur Ban (l. 25–28)