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Quotes About Guns

Yet by tracing the migration of guns, one comes readily and vividly to understand where the nation's current patchwork of gun controls have gone astray, and how easily they could be fixed to the increased satisfaction of gun owners and gun opponents alike.
~ Erik Larson
Homicide, or rather the homicide fantasy, is the engine that drives America's fascination with guns. Target shooters spend hour after hour
~ Erik Larson
According to Home Intelligence, "People living near guns are suffering from serious lack of sleep: a number of interviews made round one gun in West London showed that people were getting much less sleep than others a few hundred yards away." But no one wanted the guns to stop. "There is little complaint about lack of sleep, mainly because of the new exhilaration created by the barrage. Nevertheless this serious loss of sleep needs watching.
~ Erik Larson
Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.
~ Esmé Raji Codell
CIA hired dirtbags to drop guns into South America. Those same dirtbags used their planes and contacts to bring cocaine back. It's not the same as saying the CIA controlled the drug trade, but it had the same effect.
~ Andrew Mayne
People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room Now everything is cross marketing. It's about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs. You choose.
~ Ani DiFranco
I love Westerns!
~ Barry Corbin
Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.
~ Michael Keaton
'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
~ Lea Thompson
I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.
~ Creed Bratton
If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
~ Bruce Willis
I once went down the Amazon and our boat got charged by Columbian policemen with guns and we all had to get on motorbikes and whip across town.
~ Helen Skelton
I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we're doing is rhyming and putting words together.
~ Cam'ron
One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.
~ Conor Lamb
We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children.
~ Peter Paige
There was, however, a deeper failure, a failure to realize that the current conventional tactics were not working. The focus was on solving the shortages of men and guns and of increasing the weight of attacks - which only increased the scale of loss.
~ Robin Neillands
sufficiency of artillery depended not only on the number of guns provided but on the width of the front attacked. The guns-per-yards-of-front ratio was crucial; to expand the latter, it was necessary to increase the former, or the infantry would go over the top without adequate support.
~ Robin Neillands
SAWs were not metal things with little teeth, good for cutting wood. SAWs were Squad Automatic Weapons, which were fearsome fully-automatic machine guns, with fearsome capacities and fearsome capabilities.
~ Lee Child
The little green Ford had regular front-hinged doors, like most cars, and the doors had a restraint about two-thirds of the way through their travel, so stepping out meant stepping back too, which improved Reacher's angle. It put the engine block between him and the two guys. If they drew down immediately and started shooting from the get-go, he could hit the deck behind a bulletproof shield. If they had guns. Which was not proven.
~ Lee Child
The guns were Smith & Wesson Sigma .40s, which were modern part-polymer weapons, and expensive. They were both fully loaded.
~ Lee Child
They could be mistaken for a father and daughter who liked to carry Glocks.
~ Lee Goldberg
Wild-eyed gun nuts who insist that guns don't kill people are purely full of crap, as even a cursory glance at a newspaper on almost any given day will attest.
~ Les Roberts
In a rural community of five thousand, where the number of guns probably did outnumber the total population...
~ Lisa Gardner
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