Firearm

Quotes

• “Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts wi...”
• “A great many sportsmen have urged me to support this bill. It is hard for me to understand the interest of sportsmen in ...”
• “Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is eight miles away from the home I live in all year round, was shot two nights ago. H...”
• “Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communiti...”
• “It is a cliche that the gun is a penis-symbol as well as a weapon. Gun organizations are conventionally masculine in cul...”
• “To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by par...”
• “In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. Although you have been deprived of your God-given...”
• “The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The seco...”
• “Zardoz, speaks to you, his chosen ones. You have been raised up from brutality to kill the brutals that multiply and are...”
• “Nurses regularly witness the catastrophic consequences of gun violence. From treating victims in emergency rooms to supp...”
• “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as...”
• “It's easy to dispense with the first claim Obama made, that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced...”
• “Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advise...”
• “The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine thi...”
• “The sun is settin' on the centuryand we are armed to the teethwe are all working together nowto make our lives mercifull...”
• “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercis...”
• “People were allowed to own guns, and everyone did own guns [in the West], for the most part," says Winkler. "Having a fi...”
• “The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by t...”
• “George Mason, June 14, 1788, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, ...”
• “If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. ... Even a p...”
• “[T]he balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls, but little cases of glass. These glass cases are covered with a cas...”
• “By... our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screen...”
• “I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense, and have acted on i...”
• “Creating new federal or state gun laws based on mental illness could have the effect of creating more barriers to people...”
• “The spirit of murder seems to be on the increase in our day. This is partly due to the increase of firearms and to their...”
• “GUN CONTROL! That is what the Branch Davidian compound attack was all about. David Koresh was a gun collector and a tax ...”
• “The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a repub...”
• “Thomas Jefferson, Draft Constitution for Virginia (June 1776) This quote often appears with the parenthetical omitted an...”
• “A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense ...”
• “Carol Ruth Silver, and Don B. Kates Jr. (1979) Self Defense Handgun Ownership and the Independence of Women in a Violent...”
• “So this time let us skip all the sighing and promising and moments of silence. Why keep up the pretense that we are goin...”
• “This has been sourced to "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson", asserted to have been edited by C.J. Boyd. The quote does not...”
• “There's something demeaning about the first time you're knocked to the ground and punched in the stomach and have a gun ...”
• “Games today are very, very real," Zelk says. "It's the weapons; it's the story lines, you know, that people get caught u...”
• “It is the privilege of every citizen, and one of his most essential rights, to bear arms, and to resist every attack upo...”
• “A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: An...”
• “Samuel Adams, (6 February 1788), reported in Charles Hale, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth...”
• “I could be wrong but I have seen your face beforeYou were the man that I saw running from his doorYou owed him money but...”
• “When they kick out your front doorHow you gonna come?With your hands on your headOr on the trigger of your gun?When the ...”
• “You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. Man, we need to control the bullets,...”
• “Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The...”
• “The security of this country no longer is dependent on private gun ownership, and the weaponry used by members of the mi...”
• “Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, (1870), unabridged translation of Vingt milles lieues sous les mers ...”
• “The surprising thing about the bulletproof water was how poorly the high-powered rifles did. The full metal jacket bulle...”
• “And the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been, and that would not be, tha...”
• “I would like to graciously extend the invitation to the author of this tweet and anyone else from the NRA to join me at ...”
• “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 soc...”
• “If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the ...”
• “Handguns are made for killin'They ain't no good for nothin' elseAnd if you like to drink your whiskeyYou might even shoo...”
• “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Me...”