Gun Quotes - Page 26

• The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Compassion, People, Minutes

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• The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Shoes, White

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Mistake, Thinking, Doors

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• The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

  Richard Whately

  Kings, Lying, Men

  Richard Whately (1860). “Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences”, p.38

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• I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving, Guy, Needs

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

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• How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Men, Arrows

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.65, Trajectory Inc

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• less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Men, Knives

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.760, Bantam

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• Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Husband, Real, Drunk

  James Tiptree Jr.'s letter, quoted in Julie Phillips "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon", 2006.

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• If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!

  Alan Rufus

  Hands, Hand Holding, Ifs

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• the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Teacher, Religious, Party

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• We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Light, Voice

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Address on education to the United Nations Youth Assembly, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

  Kari Byron

  Fun, Bigger

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• If you think Democrats are going to take away your Bible, you're an idiot. If you think they are going to take away your gun, you're an armed idiot. If you think they're going to take away your gun and give it to a Mexican to kill your God, you're Bill O'Reilly.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Giving, Mexican

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", April 20, 2008.

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• ...the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting.

  Glenn Beck

  Sports, Hunting, People

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Mind, Wicked

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• You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

  David Mamet

  Knives, Want, Way

  "Fictional character: Jim Malone". "The Untouchables", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

  Chris Murphy

  Life, Eye, Issues

  "Sandy Hook 2 years later: One senator's push for gun control" by Ashley Codianni, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.

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• Where there are more guns, there are more gun problems, it 's particularly dangerous to have a gun around when people do things spontaneously. In college, from a public health standpoint, brains are n't fully developed.

  David Hemenway

  Health, College, People

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• If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

  Philip Smith

  Should Have, Community, African American

  "Packing heat in Detroit: Motown residents answer police chief's call to arms" by Perry Chiaramonte, www.foxnews.com. August 24, 2015.

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• Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.

  Cody Wilson

  Government, People, Community

  "Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel". www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2015.

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• And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do," but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!"
  "That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.

  Eddie Izzard

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful.

  Bill Burr

  Beautiful, Light, Ideas

  "Premium Blend", Season 2, episode 3, June 20, 1998.

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• Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

  Bill Burr

  Pet

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• One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  People, Ironic, Legacy

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, Quilts, War

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