Gun Quotes - Page 17

• Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?

  Dennis Kucinich

  Stars, Mass Destruction, Hands

  Congressional Record, Volume 151, Part 8, May 19, 2005.

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• The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

  Alan Keyes

  Assault Weapons, Doing Nothing, Way

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Vices, Size

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1988.

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• Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America. And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back.

  Barack Obama

  War, Fighting, Hands

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• I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.

  Michael Badnarik

  Men, People, Giving

  "Good to be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.

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• You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.

  Will Rogers

  Sides, Praying, Pilgrim

  Radio broadcast, April 14, 1935.

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Army, Hollywood

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Apples, Trying, Littles

  Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”

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• From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

  Billy Joel

  Kids, Boys, Virginia

  Song: The Ballad Of Billy The Kid, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Typewriters, Machines

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.47, City Lights Books

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• Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

  Tommy Douglas

  Accepting, Barrels, Principal

  Tommy Douglas' speech at Luther College in Regina, Saskatchewan, March 16, 1973.

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• We have not found any smoking guns.

  Hans Blix

  Smoking, Found

  News conference, New York, N.Y., 9 Jan. 2003

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• It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  "U of O Speech Cancelled". Ottawa Citizen, March 24, 2010.

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• Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.

  Harry Chapin

  Nice, Eye, Skins

  Song: If You Want To Feel, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Different

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.

  David Brooks

  Who I Am, Expression, Differences

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 21, 2015.

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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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• We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Bridges, Drug

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• Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of police; the latitude to act reasonably, to act immediately, to act in defense of self, to act in defense of another, to act with lethal force, to act with her acquired training and to act not in anger but to respond in purpose. To exercise the protections of that latitude in public policy, public interest and practical safety, all that is demanded of her is that she act reasonably under the circumstances.

  John Longenecker

  Exercise, Self, Safety

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• Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.

  Prince

  Girlfriend, Fun, Home

  Song: Sign O' the Times

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• condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

  Peter Kreeft

  Twenties, Four, Roulette

  Peter Kreeft (1996). “Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War”, p.66, Ignatius Press

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• The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

  Alan Keyes

  Self, Law, Enforcement

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.

  Dan Savage

  Gun Owners, Owners, Seems

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.185, Penguin

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• Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.

  L. Neil Smith

  Teacher, Kids, Exercise

  "Murder by Gun Control". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 31, 2000.

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