"If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will own guns" (1968)

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GUNS ARE OUTLAWED + OUTLAWS--43,700 Google hits
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This slogan has been repeated this week, after the Virginia Tech tragedy.
The Yale Book of Quotations shamefully gives no date, but there are many
citations from 1968 on several databases.
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I've spent four hours trying to open up pages on NewspaperArchive, and
that's enough. I'm about to hit my head into a goddamn wall.
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Yale Book of Quotations
Pg. 598:
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
Slogan of opponents of gun control.
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_Oneonta Star, The (Newspaper) - February 23, 1968, Oneonta, New  York_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0024/6797797/54836524.html)
Subscription - Oneonta  Star, The - NewspaperArchive - Feb 23,  1968     The
poster said, "if guns are outlawed,  only outlaws will have DR. JOSEPH LaBARR,
130 Main St., will -be  back in His office March 18. adv-T. ...




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