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Michael D. Barnes

"The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads."

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"The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"More traffic means more advertising dollars."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."

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Michael D. Barnes
"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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Michael D. Barnes
"It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it."

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Michael D. Barnes
"Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns."

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Michael D. Barnes
"The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads."

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Michael D. Barnes
"If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns."

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Michael D. Barnes
"If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started."

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Michael D. Barnes
"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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Michael D. Barnes
"There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks."

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Michael D. Barnes
"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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Michael D. Barnes
"They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here."

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