Gun Quotes

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

~ Niger Innis

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

~ Mao Zedong

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

~ Steve Stockman

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

~ Anthony J. D'angelo

I believe the gun has no power at all.

~ Malala Yousafzai

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

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

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

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

~ Duane Chapman

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

~ John Dingell

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

~ Jerrold Nadler

Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.

~ Cass Sunstein

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

~ Mario Puzo

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

~ Mandy Patinkin

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

~ Paul Theroux

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

~ Steven Pinker

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

~ Parker Posey

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.

~ Giorgio Moroder

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

~ Joel Silver

I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.

~ Eric Andre

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

~ Brad Paisley

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

~ Ian Paisley

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

~ Norman Cousins

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

~ Luke Scott

I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.

~ Sam Brownback

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

~ Josephine Baker

We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license... We don't require a license to own a firearm?

~ Michael Moore

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

~ Marilyn Manson

If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.

~ James Wan

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

~ Jim Harrison

What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there's somebody out there in the parking lot, and they're getting out of their car, and they've got an A-15 on their shoulder, or... John Q. Public wants to sell a handgun or whatever, then there's no background check.

~ Phil Gingrey

Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

~ P. J. O'rourke

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

~ Bruce Willis

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

~ Yasser Arafat