"Making good people helpless won't make bad…

“Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless” is a pro-gun saying that has been printed on many images. “Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless” was posted on the newsgroup alt.gossip.celebrities on April 2, 2009. Authorship is unknown.

“Show me a time in history where rendering the good people helpless made the bad people harmless” is an extension of the saying.

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NRA Psychos Show How Crazy They Are
Investor612
Apr 2, 2009, 11:02:13 PM
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Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless.

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Maura Reed
@maurareeddesign
I Heart My Rifle: Making good people helpless will not make bad people harmless. Gun rights tshirt. http://bit.ly/2rWyfx
6:58 AM · Nov 6, 2009·twitterfeed

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Michael Spotts
@michael_spotts
GUN CONTROL: What are your thoughts? “Making good people helpless will not make bad people harmless.”
10:04 PM · Jun 14, 2010·Twitter Web Client

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spooky ron سبوكي رانيا Ghost
@macarania
“Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless. Support gun rights!” This is why I hate the south
7:48 PM · May 6, 2012·Twitter SMS

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Robert Bihari
@rbihari
“Making good people helpless doesn’t make bad people harmless.” ~ Anon
9:32 AM · Dec 27, 2012·Twitter Web Client

7 January 2013, Topeka (KS) Capital Journal, “Letters,” pg. A4:
Making good people helpless doesn’t make bad people harmless. Gun laws only keep guns away from citizens.
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TERRY WOOLBRIGHT,
TOPEKA

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24 February 2013, Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, “Protesters stand up for guns” by Clarke Morrison, pg. A4, col. 1:
Some at the rally in downtown Asheville carried signs with message such as “Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless,” “Hands off my guns” and “Gun owners are not criminals.”

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NRA Institute for Legislative Action
August 15, 2018 ·
Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless. It is that simple.

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NRA Institute for Legislative Action
September 30, 2018 ·
By making good people helpless, you won’t make bad people harmless.

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What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues
By Clifford Thompson
New York, NY: Other Press
2019
Pg. 162:
Signs on the wall read “Making good people helpless will not make bad people harmless” and “My right to own a gun protects your right to tell me I can’t.”

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NRA - National Rifle Association of America
July 25, 2019 ·
Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless!

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Hell On Wheels
@Colt_45_Outlaw
Gun Control.
So tell me. How will making good people helpless make bad people harmless?
7:31 PM · Mar 15, 2020·Twitter Web App

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Abe Kim
@AbeGKim
Making good people helpless won’t make bad people harmless.
4:38 PM · Oct 9, 2020·Twitter for iPhone