quotations about guns
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who’s going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home.
RONALD REAGAN
interview, Mar. 22, 1986
Firearms, like people, have ancestors, and the frontier guns were no exception. Just as did most of the men and women who carried them, these weapons had their early roots in Europe. We can trace their lineage back to the sieges of the walled cities of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, to a primitive weapon called the hand cannon.
CHARLES EDWARD CHAPEL
Guns of the Old West
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
MOTHER TERESA
The Joy in Loving
See a gun is real easy
In this desperate part of town.
Turns you from hunted into hunter
Gonna hunt somebody down ...
VAN HALEN
"Meanstreet", Fair Warnings
Some gun-control advocates would like to ban the sale of semiautomatic rifles and handguns -- which is to say, the majority of rifles and the great majority of handguns -- but there already are millions of those in circulation. These would have to be confiscated (as they were in Australia) in order to make such a program effective. The prohibition of most small arms and the seizure of millions of firearms already in private hands might be a lot of things, but it is not "moderate" or "common sense." It would be a radical step, and one that almost certainly would be found to be unconstitutional.
NATIONAL REVIEW EDITORS
"Gun Control Isn't the Answer", National Review, February 16, 2018
You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. Man, we need to control the bullets, that's right. I think all bullets should cost $5,000. $5,000 for a bullet. You know why? 'Cause if a bullet costs $5000, there'd be no more innocent bystanders.
CHRIS ROCK
"Bigger and Blacker", HBO
The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
JEFF COOPER
Guns and Ammo, April 1991
Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
THOMAS F. SHUBNELL
Giggles, Gags, and Quips: Special Picks
Going wild. Every night they shoot; it's like Beirut. Maybe you should get a Kevlar vest for your chest; anytime stepping through my hood. But that'll do you no good. One slug to your face? Don't hate. You're getting smoked, like wood.
ERIC DWAYNE COLLINS
"Lyrical Gangbang", The Chronic
Due to the rising cost of ammunition, I'm no longer able to provide a warning shot. Thanks for your understanding.
ANONYMOUS
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.
AYN RAND
Philosophy: Who Needs It
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
WAYNE LAPIERRE
NRA news conference, December 21, 2012
Swords and guns have no eyes.
CHINESE PROVERB
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
WILLIAM BURROUGHS
Painting and Guns
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONG
Problems of War and Strategy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington D.C., April 16, 1953
I've got my twin Glock 40s cocked back, me and my homies. So, drop that.
CHRISTOPHER BRIDGES
"Rollout", Word of Mouf
I'd never use one, but even I can appreciate the attraction of a gun. The heft. The sleekness. The cool steel. The precision. And the power. The power to change lives, history. The power of God.
ALLAN BURNETT
Batman: Gotham Knight
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
AL CAPONE
attributed, Forbes, October 6, 1986
Arm all your passengers. And then your airlines, then they wouldn't have to search the passengers on the ground no more, they just pass out the pistols at the beginning of the trip, and they pick 'em up again at the end. Case closed.
ARCHIE BUNKER
All in the Family