#i

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. ↗

— Larry Elder

#battle #common-sense #contest #control #crook

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. ↗

— Larry Elder

#bankrupt #both #conditions #consume #decide

A goal without a plan is just a wish. ↗

— Larry Elder

#just #plan #wish #without

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#ridiculous #step #sublime

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years. ↗

— Larry Elder

#dad #equivalent #fight #guy #had

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well. ↗

— Larry Elder

#bit #dad #fact #i #i think

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut. ↗

— Larry Elder

#decrease #does #equal #increase #only

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#could #definitely #direction #i #just

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. ↗

— Joycelyn Elders

#affair #children #fetus #get #love

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#footnotes #history #into #silent #transformation