Rifles Quotes - Page 3

• Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.

  Bobby Bare

  Kids, Guitar

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• The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.

  Clint Smith

  Fighting, Gun, Rpgs

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• If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

  Christine Pelosi

  Morning, Thug, Safety

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• I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Redneck, Thinking, Hunting

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• We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

  Major Owens

  Gun, Acquisition, Purpose

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• I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Military, Marine, Gun

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Party, Gun

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

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• The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

  Joseph Stalin

  Real, Long, Real Power

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• Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

  Carl Rogers

  Use, Wagons, Ammunition

  "On Becoming a Person". Book by Carl Rogers, p. 281, 1961.

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• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Gun, Men, Safety

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• Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Government, Hands, Justice

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• For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.

  Keanu Reeves

  Gun, Past, Training

  Source: lrmonline.com

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• You should not have assault rifles in your home.

  Ann Patchett

  Home, Should, Assault

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Gun, Numbers

  Theodore Roosevelt (1923). “Theodore Roosevelt on race, riots, Reds, crime”

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• My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, Mean, Gun

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• Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.

  Martin McGuinness

  Support, Ira, Apologizing

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• ... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years and years. It was a shield... I think that the photographer in combat has a greater protection than the soldier who has a rifle in his hand. That camera has unbelievable protective power.

  Carl Mydans

  War, Thinking, Hands

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• For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, Fifty, Vote

  "Benito Mussolini: a biography".

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.

  Jeff Cooper

  Dream, Queens, Exercise

  Jeff Cooper (2002). “Art of the Rifle: Special Colour Edition”, p.8, Paladin Press

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• Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Writing, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.389, Penguin

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• As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise I propose: Ban assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel. These weapons are made to kill humans and should be strictly limited. At the same time, allow responsible citizens to own rifles and shotguns. Rifles are for hunting big-game animals, shotguns are for hunting birds; non-automatic versions of these weapons should be available for those with an interest in hunting or target shooting.

  Nick Symmonds

  Military, Hunting, Animal

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• To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

  Harvey Weinstein

  America, Gun Control, United States

  "Aurora shootings prompt Harvey Weinstein to call for rethink on film violence" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need - and a lot of heart.

  Malcolm X

  Heart, Warrior, Sneakers

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

  Joe Manchin

  Hunting, Arena, Assault

  "Pro-gun Sen. Manchin: Time to act" by Kevin Robillard, www.politico.com. December 17, 2012.

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