quotations about guns
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
Gun control is a political fantasy because the Second Amendment and various states' constitutions protect the right to bear arms. This will not be changed, full stop. You don't need to support or even like the Bill of Rights to see that gun control is an administrative fantasy as well. In a country where private citizens own more than 300 million firearms, no effective form of gun control can be practical, and no practical form can be effective. Even an obviously unconstitutional ban on all new sales would take a century to make its effects felt. Universal confiscation of hundreds of millions of firearms would be several orders of magnitude more difficult than deporting every illegal immigrant in the U.S.
WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORS
"Gun control is a fantasy", Washington Examiner, February 21, 2018
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
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
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
Bloody war! What do you think all these bullets and all these guns're made for?
LAVELL W. CRUMP
"Bloody War", Certified
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
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
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
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
ATTENTION: Burglars please carry ID so we can notify next of kin.
ANONYMOUS
When you come for my guns, bring yours.
ANONYMOUS
Guns are like magnets. They attract each other and all the violence that goes along with having them.
ROLAND SMITH
Independence Hall
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
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
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
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
We should focus on the lives lost to gun violence rather than focus on how great guns are like the gun industry does and even Hollywood does from time to time. Focusing on the extensive damage that guns do rather than the good they do (They don't by the way) is a vital step we as a nation must take in order to begin to change our gun culture.
ROB CLEWLEY
Gunsense Nation