Gun Quotes

• There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Law
  • Marriage
  • Easy

• With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

  

  Owen Wister
  • Always
  • Smile
  • Belly

• Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.

  

  Ofir Drori
  • War
  • Daily
  • Fate

• A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • American
  • Success
  • Hand

• The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • Important
  • Today
  • Education

• If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Country
  • Control
  • Safety

• I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

  

  David Mamet
  • Up
  • Gun

• To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

  

  Bernhard Goetz
  • Gun

• In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • Control
  • Gun

• Redneck law: Must have a gun. Must shoot it regularly.

  

  Willie Robertson
  • Law
  • Gun
  • Redneck

• You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

  

  Mac Maharaj
  • Freedom
  • Fighter
  • Freedom Fighter

• Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Time
  • House
  • Small

• Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Why
  • America
  • Wonder

• Johnny Marcone: Do you know what I think?Harry Dresden: You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.Marcone: Yes. I drew my gun.Harry Dresden: Okay.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Opportunity
  • Gun

• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Tired
  • Gun
  • Rain

• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Smart
  • Gun
  • Silly

• I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Bad
  • Pistol
  • Lore

• There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Mean

• I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.

  

  Will Patton
  • Better
  • Careers
  • Firearms

• Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Hope
  • This World

• I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Kids
  • Respect
  • Son

• You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Fall
  • Husband
  • Gun

• I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Heart
  • President
  • Gun

• Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Destroy

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