Guns Quotes

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

~ Tiffany Madison

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

~ Sebastian Barry

These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn’t aware that when people are showing you guns, they’re not threatening you, it’s like they’re showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

~ John Lydon

So long as you have a society with a lot of guns- and America has more guns per capita than any other county in the world- children will be at risk of being shot. The questions are how much risk, and what, if anything, is being done to minimize it? If one thinks of various ways in which commonplace items, from car seats to medicine bottle tops, have been childproofed, it's clear that society's general desire has been to eliminate as many potential dangers from children as possible, even when the number of those who might be harmed is relatively small. If one child's death is preventable, then the proper question isn't Why should we do this but rather Why shouldn't we? It would be strange for that principle to apple to everything but guns.

~ Gary Younge

So long as you have a society with a lot of guns- and America has more guns per capita than any other county in the world- children will be at risk of being shot. The questions are how much risk, and what, if anything, is being done to minimize it? If one thinks of various ways in which commonplace items, from car seats to medicine bottle tops, have been childproofed, it's clear that society's general desire has been to eliminate as many potential dangers from children as possible, even when the number of those who might be harmed is relatively small. If one child's death is preventable, then the proper question isn't Why should we do this but rather Why shouldn't we? It would be strange for that principle to apply to everything but guns.

~ Gary Younge

In more than half of American homes where there are both children and firearms, according to a 2000 study, the weapons are in an unlocked place, and in more than 40 percent of homes, guns without a trigger lock are in an unlocked place. Almost three-quarters of children under the age of ten who live in homes with guns say they know where the guns are. A 2005 study showed that more than 1.69 million children and youth under eighteen live in homes with weapons that are loaded and unlocked. According to a Department of Education study, 65% of school shootings between 1974 and 2000 were carried out with a gun from the attacker's home or the home of a relative. And the laws, it seems, are effective. One study indicated that in the twelve states where child-access prevention laws were on the books for at least one year, unintentional gun deaths fell by 23 percent.

~ Gary Younge

America: Land of the free and home of the gun. We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing.

~ Jonathan Heatt

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

~ Bill Maher

One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he gave me the Datsun and went out and bought a Lincoln.

~ Christopher Moore

A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall.A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' (Jane Brown's Body)

~ Cornell Woolrich

I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn’t as big as his! I don’t know what it is with guns, but once you’ve got your hand on one, you think you’re one of the untouchables.

~ Stephen Richards

Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.

~ Benjamin R. Smith

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

~ Louis L'amour

I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident.

~ Edward Abbey

Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.

~ Dashanne Stokes

I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

~ Molly Ivins

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

~ Jean Zimmerman

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

~ Howard Zinn

We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.

~ Jeannette Rankin

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

~ George Orwell

In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded.

~ Jayseth Guberman

If you survive, you've got to live with the guilt, and that's more difficult than looking someone in the eye and pulling the trigger. Trust me. I've done both.

~ Sara Grant

And for God's sake, if you need to shoot make sure to release the safety ,” he murmured, as we moved across the front, careful to stick to the shadows as often as we could. So far, I hadn't seen anyone, not even zombies. It wasn't uncommon for a straggler to come along, every now and then. Lucky for us, we were remote enough that we hadn't had any major issues with any hordes locating us. The men were quick to dispatch any zombies that hung around, not willing to take the risk that somehow they could communicate with each other. Not to mention, the zombies were strong and fast. It was better to end them, rather than to risk them one day killing one of us.

~ Rose Wynters

The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement badge.

~ Steven Magee

If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right. Sheriff Bud Smith.

~ James Hickey

Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That’s their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things.

~ Massad Ayoob

In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun culture” if you will.

~ Massad Ayoob

Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Surrender is no guarantee that an armed police officer will not shoot you.

~ Steven Magee

I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.

~ Neil Gaiman

Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You got a gun, you don't have to work out.

~ Chris Rock

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

~ Dan Rather

You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery, it’s like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?

~ Stephen King

I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought.

~ Philip K. Dick

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.

~ Todd Berger

Mass shootings are all part of a vast Left-wing conspiracy to undermine the 2nd Amendment and deprive your 6-year-old of his God-given right to bring a Bushmaster to class for show and tell ... The one he got from his psychotic, meth-addicted uncle's trailer while the latter was out getting the Confederate flag tattooed on his face. Remember, guns don't kill: the dimwits who insist EVERYONE should have the right to own 'em do.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

~ Robert B. Parker

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

~ William S. Burroughs