Gun Quotes

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.” -Bill Hicks

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

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.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

A gun is a liar's weapon

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.

Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

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.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

Guns don't kill people. The aliens behind the triggers do.

I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women.

. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind"”like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

We must get rid of all the guns.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

When the gun shoots, you got to go.

This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller.

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.