Gun Quotes - Page 23

• Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

  Stockwell Day

  Responsibility, Police, Crime

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• I have good kids, I love my kids. I try to bring them up the right way, not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them. I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done!

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Mean, Glory, Serving God

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.695, Macmillan

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• Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  War, Teaching, Fighting

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• I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

  Barney Ross

  Thinking, Bags, Shells

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• When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Plot, Flags

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• One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

  Michael Parenti

  Children, Dirty, Thug

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• I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

  Stephen King

  Rocks, Doors, Rose

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

  Matthew Healy

  Rose, Needs, Able

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• From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.

  Azim Khamisa

  Children, Powerful, Grief

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• Americans are ready to hate somebody -- and it's going to be the gun industry.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Hate, Ready, Industry

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• Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old on Kickstarter just raised $7 million in five minutes after announcing his idea for juice box water guns.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Ideas, Water

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• I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

  Mindy Kaling

  Window Shopping, Tape, Labels

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.

  Barack Obama

  Law, America, Safety

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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 am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Rocks, Rose, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• out of great Russia came three
  dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
  for: Bread, Peace, Land.

  Carl Sandburg

  Russia, Land, Three

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
  The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
  A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
  corner of it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wall, Rifles, Spiders

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, War, Fighting

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• I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
  I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
  And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
  It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Rain, Fall

  'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' (1963 song)

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• Everything from toy guns that spark
  To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
  It's easy to see without looking too far
  That not much is really sacred.

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, Flesh, Sacred

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home

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• I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Law, Common Sense

  "Washington Navy Yard Massacre — The Aftermath" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• I am a tomboy and I love being with the boys and shooting guns and stuff.

  Laurie Holden

  Boys, Love Is, Shooting

  AMC Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.

  Alice Cooper

  Sex, Fun, Triggers

  Song: I'm Your Gun, Album: Trash, 1989

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• Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Running, Dancing, Shells

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