Gun famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
-- Aaron McGruder -
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from
-- Ab-Soul -
Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.
-- Abbi Glines -
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms....
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.
-- Adam Rapp -
I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!
-- Adam Savage -
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!
-- Adela Popescu -
This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.
-- Adolphus Busch -
You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.
-- Aimee Liu -
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
-- Al Capone -
A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.
-- Al Capone -
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
-- Al Capone -
I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
-- Al Pacino -
If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.
-- Al Sharpton -
I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
-- Alan Alda -
Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
-- Alan Cranston -
Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'
-- Alan Gottlieb -
A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun.
-- Alan Gottlieb -
After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.
-- Alan Gottlieb -
The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.
-- Alan Keyes -
The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.
-- Alan Keyes -
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.
-- Alan Keyes -
Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
-- Alan Moore -
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
-- Alan Paton -
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.
-- Alana Stewart -
I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.
-- Alana Stewart -
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.
-- Alec Wilkinson -
If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.
-- Alex Garland -
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
-- Alex Kozinski -
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.
-- Alex Kozinski -
The majority falls prey to the delusion popular in some circles that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth born of experience is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
-- Alex Kozinski -
I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.
-- Alex Lifeson -
When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
-- Alexander Berkman -
Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.
-- Alexander Berkman -
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
-- Alexander Blok -
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.
-- Alexis Stewart -
If I didnt do something perfectly, I had to do it again. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head,
-- Alexis Stewart -
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.
-- Alice Cooper -
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
-- Alice Walker -
I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.
-- Allan Rock -
So, will his new gun laws - aimed primarily at law-abiding firearms owners - reduce the crime rate even further? Rock is hesitant to give a conclusive answer: "I think it will help. (But) I don't want to overstate it. I don't want to give any guarantees."
-- Allan Rock -
Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.
-- Ally Carter -
The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.
-- Ally Carter -
For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.
-- Alvaro Uribe -
I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.
-- Alvin C. York -
These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.
-- Amanda Vanstone -
I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.
-- Amber Heard -
I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave the house in a ***** prom dress every day.
-- Amber Heard -
If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.
-- Amor Towles -
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
-- Andre Breton -
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
-- Andre Breton -
I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
-- Andrea Gibson -
The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.
-- Andreas Baader -
Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy?
-- Andrew Ford -
If you've got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey-then we won't have to worry about the gun part.
-- Andrew Ford -
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.
-- Andrew Ford -
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.
-- Andrew Jackson -
We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.
-- Andrew Niccol -
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
-- Andrew Young -
Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.
-- Andy Borowitz -
The Republicans suddenly are very concerned about people losing their health coverage! I would believe that they were worried about our well-being if a) they didn't cut food stamps; and b) they didn't oppose every law regulating guns.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.
-- Andy Borowitz -
When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.
-- Andy Griffith -
There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
-- Andy Richter -
No, if I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match. If you got the guns, go for it. I got two breadsticks sticking out of my sleeve. I'll stick with sleeves.
-- Andy Roddick -
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
-- Andy Rooney -
People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.
-- Ani DiFranco -
I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.
-- Anita Alvarez -
I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.
-- Ann Coulter -
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
-- Ann Coulter -
Liberals tell amazing lies about guns and everything else.
-- Ann Coulter -
Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.
-- Ann Coulter -
I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?
-- Ann Coulter -
In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.
-- Ann Coulter -
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I loved killing zombies in 'Day of the Dead.' I basically welcome anything that involves being dirty or bloody or shooting guns.
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
-- Anne Carson -
Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.
-- Anne Fortier -
... we're not interested in confiscating their guns, as long as they are legitimate gun owners, as long as they store them appropriately, transport them appropriately and so on ...
-- Anne McLellan -
The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.
-- Anne Rice -
Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.
-- Annie Oakley -
I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.
-- Annie Oakley -
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
-- Ansel Adams -
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
-- Anton Chekhov -
If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.
-- Anton Chekhov
