35 Quotes by Michael D. Barnes

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    But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

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    We support seven different contact channels because we know these are somewhat generational -- some people are phone-centric and others are PC-centric. We allow you to support all of those on a single network-hosted platform.

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    Reservoirs aren't supposed to stay full. Through April, we were bulging at the core. And then along come the middle of May, and it started drying up. We're right where we should be.

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    Our mission is to carry on the Amistad story and its legacy. We have been to 80 ports to remind people of what happened and to battle racism.

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    Most droughts, you go 200 miles and people are in a flood situation. It's a shame. When we're dry, somebody else is wet. When we're wet, somebody's dry. I don't know, maybe it's God's way.

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    We stayed open later this year than last year because of it. So business has been doing a little bit better. It's not as drastic as you might think maybe but you had to stay open late and put in much more hours.

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    We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

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    Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

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    We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.

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