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• Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^

  Jim Carrey

  Running, Soul, Body

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2013

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• The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

  Eddie Izzard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Gun

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

  Karl Marx

  Style, Citizens, Revolutionary

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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• It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Bed, Living Alone, Ifs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.125, Random House

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• My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

  Gail Collins

  Dream, Nsa, Association

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Husband, Couple, Father

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• I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

  George Clooney

  Care, Association, Deserve

  "The Continuing Sagas of George Clooney & Bill Moyers". "The Talking Points Memo" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2003.

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• Only accurate rifles are interesting

  Townsend Whelen

  Interesting, Accurate

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• The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

  Daryl Davis

  Military, Gun, Thinking

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• Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

  Rick Riordan

  War, United Front, Arms

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• Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

  Neil Kinnock

  Fighting, Hands, Dishonesty

  Speech in the House of Commons, October 23, 1986.

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• AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.

  Scott Simon

  Sports, Country, Gun

  "States Move To Tighten Controversial 'Assault Weapons' Ban". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 12, 2015.

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• One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Thinking, Stage, Loaded

  Letter to A. S. Lazarev, 1 Nov. 1889.

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• A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

  Anthony Swofford

  War, Believe, Son

  Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Hands, Design, Assault

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• Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

  Piper Kerman

  Background Noise, Practice, Listening

  Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.166, Spiegel & Grau

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• I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

  Jay Johnstone

  Baseball, Marine, Shoes

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• Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Guy, Say Anything

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• Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other textiles. Depicting these realities of war has helped the Afghan people to survive during times of conflict.

  Henri Cole

  War, Past, Reality

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• It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

  Jeff Cooper

  Prison, Murder, Kalashnikov

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• Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

  Zach Braff

  Dream, Time Travel

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• Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

  Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

  Negotiation, Dialogue, Conferences

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• It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Horse, Class

  Isak Dinesen (2001). “Out of Africa”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

  Roy Blunt

  Stupid, Army, Ebay

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