Gun Quotes - Page 16

• The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.

  Huey Newton

  Military, War, Hands

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• If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Children, Home, Hunting

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• "Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

  James Nicoll

  Two, Police, Sound

  Usenet article, 2005.

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• Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

  James Nicoll

  Fighting, Guy, Machines

  Usenet article, 2006.

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• Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

  Sheldon Richman

  Education, School, Mean

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• Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.

  Sheldon Richman

  Rights, People, Criminals

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• If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

  Michael Moorcock

  Thinking, People, Problem

  "The Eternal Champion". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Fighting, Thinking, Want

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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• I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  Adam Rapp

  Character, Writing, Smell

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• Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.

  Gene Littler

  Player, Today, Bigs

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• The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

  Alex Kozinski

  Stupid, Fall, Simple

  "The Individual’s Right to Bear Arms". capitalismmagazine.com. May 22, 2003.

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• I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

  Carmelo Anthony

  New York, Thinking, Play

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• Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

  Lyle Lovett

  Past, Fishing, Imagination

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• After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Jesus, Trying, Freak

  Little Green Footballs weblog, April 12, 2008.

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• The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!!

  Friedrich Kellner

  Baby, Children, Military

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• Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Exception, Distaste

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.

  Ilana Mercer

  Mean, Self, Nuts

  "Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer". praag.org. November 25, 2013.

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• I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me.

  Alvin C. York

  Fighting, Cutting, Machines

  "Understanding the Odyssey: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents" by Claudia D. Johnson, 2003.

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• Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.

  Dave Kopel

  Country, Lying, Fighting

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• The only way to stop Thierry Henry? With a gun!

  Gianluca Vialli

  Way

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• Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.

  Bobby Charlton

  Towels, Tottenham, Thrown

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• Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

  Ayn Rand

  Opposites, Mind, Mouths

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.966, Penguin

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• The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Character, Battle, Elements

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Bullets on a presentation slide are too often like bullets in a gun - deadly for those on the receiving end.

  John Zimmer

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• The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again.

  Conan O'Brien

  White, House, President

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