Gun Quotes - Page 26

• Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Men

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• Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.

  Douglas Adams

  Fun, Simple, Space

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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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• I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

  Ann Coulter

  Support, Half, Interviews

  "Ann Coulter on Controversial Comments About Religion". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2007.

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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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• Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Christian, War, Thinking

  "America Undercover (Left of the Dial)". TV Series, March 31, 2005.

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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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• People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

  Ani DiFranco

  Shoes, People, Drug

  "Song: "Fuel"". 1998.

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

  Wesley Clark

  Army, Assault Weapons, People

  "CNN Crossfire", transcripts.cnn.com. June 25, 2003.

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• The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

  Alex Garland

  Powerful, Years, Impact

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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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• 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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• Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dignity, Violent

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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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• If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?

  Wayne LaPierre

  Iraq, Save A Life, Bigs

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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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• What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?

  Brian Williams

  Yesterday, People, Shooting

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

  Bonnie Blair

  Sports, Missing, Sound

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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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