quotations about guns
When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
THE CLASH
"The Guns of Brixton", London Calling
The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers.
SAMUEL COLT
letter to Charles Manby, May 18, 1852
I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.
CHERIE PRIEST
Dreadful Skin
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
CLINT EASTWOOD
The Very Best of Clint Eastwood: Inside the Mind of a Hollywood Legend
You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.
CLINT EASTWOOD
Psychology Today, Jan. 1, 1993
Some parents … say it is toy guns that make boys warlike…. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout “Bang!”
GEORGE F. WILL
Newsweek, Dec. 11, 1978
England, where no one has guns; fourteen deaths. United States -- and I think you know how we feel about guns; whoo! I'm getting' a stiffy -- 23,000 deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a communist to make one.
BILL HICKS
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed--unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
JAMES MADISON
attributed, Quote Junkie Presidents Edition
I know what you're thinkin', punk. You're thinkin' did he fire six shots or only five? Now to tell you the truth, I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But bein' this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it'll blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?!
CLINT EASTWOOD
Dirty Harry
So making guns illegal will take them off the street? We should make heroine and meth illegal too!
ANONYMOUS
If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
ANONYMOUS
A gun is not an argument.
AYN RAND
Capitalism: The Unknown Deal
Morality ends where the gun begins.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to George Washington, June 19, 1796
If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
THOMAS F. SHUBNELL
Giggles, Gags, and Quips: Special Picks
Don't point a gun at nobody you ain't willin' to shoot, if necessary.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.
EDWARD ABBEY
Abbey's Road
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
"Pumpked Up Kicks"
Guns made us free and have kept us free, one side says; the other side rejects guns as instruments of domination, lawlessness, and terrorism. The conflict rages on because both sides are right.
JAN E. DIZARD
Guns in America
The business end of a six-gun don't pay no interest.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's