Gun Culture Quotes

• Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

  Michael Moore

  Gun, People, Revulsion

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• That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Gun, Culture

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.

  Jason Whitlock

  Boys, Car, Safety

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

  Barack Obama

  Evil, Gun Control, Trying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

  Hermann Goring

  Culture, Goering, Revolver

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• A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

  James Madison

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

  James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott (1999). “The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.690, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

  Edward Abbey

  Culture, Goering, Revolver

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Gun, Men, America

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• Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Couple, Party

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

  Bob Costas

  Country, Military, Believe

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• A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

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• I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.

  Irvine Welsh

  Tired, Fighting, Gun

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

  Pauly Shore

  Gun, People, Belief

  Source: www.bendsource.com

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• I think gun culture is disgusting but people need to think about it before they start judging.

  Lisa Maffia

  Gun, Thinking, People

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• Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

  Bob Costas

  Teenage, Believe, Gun

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game" by Jason Whitlock, www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I'm living in the heart of gun culture, but I'm not a gun guy. I didn't grow up with them; I was never a hunter; my dad was never a hunter.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Growing Up, Dad, Heart

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

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• There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

  Clive Owen

  Gun, Culture, England

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