quotations about guns
We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.
ELIZABETH WARREN
A Fighting Chance
I mean I'm a gun-owning pacifist, so there you go.
KRIST NOVOSELIC
"Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems", ReasonTV, June 19, 2014
I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.
ROBERT B. PARKER
Small Vices
Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
EDWARD ABBEY
Abbey's Road
If there's one thing we've learned, it is that guns have become a cultural flash point in a nation that is unequal and divided. The people who defend gun rights believe that snobbish elites look down on their morals and want to destroy their culture. If we end up telling such people that they and their guns are despicable, they will just despise us back and dig in their heels. So if you want to stop school shootings it's not enough just to vent and march. It's necessary to let people from Red America lead the way, and to show respect to gun owners at all points. There has to be trust and respect first. Then we can strike a compromise on guns as guns, and not some sacred cross in the culture war.
DAVID BROOKS
"Respect First, Then Gun Control", New York Times, February 19, 2018
Gun control is always a scheme of the powerful to deprive the powerless of the right to self-defense.
ANN COULTER
"Negroes With Guns", Ann Coulter, April 18, 2012
I believe everybody in the world should have guns. I also believe that only I should have ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of you goobers with anything more dangerous than a string.
SCOTT ADAMS
Stick to Drawing Comics
The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.
TED NUGENT
attributed, "Celebrity Gun Quotes", Buckeye Firearms Association
Happiness is a warm gun.
JOHN LENNON
"Happiness is a Warm Gun", White Album
Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls.... They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.
LORRIE MOORE
Like Life
ATTENTION: Burglars please carry ID so we can notify next of kin.
ANONYMOUS
And I swear that I don't have a gun. No, I don't have a gun. No, I don't have a gun.
KURT COBAIN
"Come As You Are", Nevermind
When you come for my guns, bring yours.
ANONYMOUS
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
ANONYMOUS
The majority falls prey to the delusion, popular in some circles, that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth, born of experience, is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.
ALEX KOZINSKI
circuit judge, Silveira v. Lockyer
If I've got nine slugs? Nine bullets're going to fly. If I've got a red beam? Nine people're going to die. Nine mothers gone cry; nine spirits in the sky. Nine preachers preaching nine sermons; telling nine lies.
LAVELL W. CRUMP
"9mm", The Greatest Story Ever Told
Guns are like boobs. Even the small ones are fun to play with.
ANONYMOUS
I have a love interest in every one of my films -- a gun.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
interview, Playboy, January 1988
Guns are like magnets. They attract each other and all the violence that goes along with having them.
ROLAND SMITH
Independence Hall
Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.
BARRY WONG
Hard Boiled