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Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

— Gabrielle Giffords

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

— John Mellencamp

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

— Paul Gillmor

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

— Charles B. Rangel

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

— Art Bell

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.

— Claire McCaskill

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.

— Robert Dallek

Fear is the foundation of safety.

— Tertullian

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

— John Adams

✗Opposing Perspectives

Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.

— Sherrod Brown