All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.—Daniel Boone
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.—Thomas Carlyle
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.—Prince Philip
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.—Don Henley
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.—F. Sionil Jose
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.—Jean-Luc Godard
America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.—Sheila Jackson Lee
America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.—Brad Pitt
And as - funny enough, it actually became - so I've always wanted to be a Guinness world record holder. And believe it or not, before I made this there was not a category for world's largest Nerf gun, but there is now.—Mark Rober
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.—Jeff Miller
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.—Thomas Sowell
As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.—Fantastic Negrito
To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.—Bernhard Goetz
Batman doesn't use a gun. When Bruce Wayne thinks he had to resort to a street thug's level to defend himself and the girl he was rescuing, he decides he can't be Batman anymore.—Paul Dini
Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.—Emily Browning
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.—Martin Amis
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.—Jerry Rubin
Coloradans reacted adversely to gun control legislation signed into law by Hickenlooper.—Harry Enten
Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.—Ted Lieu
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.—Chuck Palahniuk
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.—Jim Harrison
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.—P. J. O'Rourke
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.—Roma Downey
If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.—David Frost
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.—Mario Puzo
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.—Niger Innis
For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.—John Paul Stevens
For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.—Robert Dallek
For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves.—Paul G. Tremblay
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.—Ayn Rand
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.—Clint Eastwood
It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.—Lindsey Graham
I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!—Claire Danes
Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.—Gabrielle Giffords
I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn't think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me.—Noah Wyle
So basically, you know, the first day on the job you get there and you realize everybody has a Nerf gun. They had, you know, the smaller ones that shoot the darts. So part of the rite of passage of coming to the company is you have to get your own.—Mark Rober
I may not have the gun that Jesse James had when he was gunned down, but if there's a piece identified with him and the same place, then I get interested; it's always excited me.—Red McCombs
I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. I put a picture of him holding a gun on my Instagram for his birthday. He's definitely one of my favorite rock artists.—Prodigy
My first records were KISS's "Love Gun," Twisted Sister's "Stay Hungry," and Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil." That had immense influence on me.—Tobias Forge
I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.—Shanola Hampton
There is no "Top Gun 2" in which Maverick is not the starring role.—Christopher McQuarrie
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.—Howard Hawks
Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.—Jeff Buckley
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.—Michael Badnarik
Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming "soft targets."—Mark Meadows
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.—Luke Scott
Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.—Chris Rock
Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.—Jason Winston George
Gun violence should have no home in the richest country in the history of the world.—Jasmine Crockett
"Holding The Gun" symbolizes loyalty and an everlasting type of love.—Sabrina Claudio
I am really fast with a gun.—Robert Fuller
I am used to doing dramatic work, but its fun to grab a gun, and go running around, getting beat-up. Its fun to do the action stuff, because it is really physical. There is nothing like getting into a character by getting beaten up physically.—Devon Bostick
I believe the gun has no power at all.—Malala Yousafzai
I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.—Kurt Cobain
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.—Yasser Arafat
I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.—Nick Offerman
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.—Henry Rollins
I don't believe gun owners have rights.—Sarah Brady
I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.—Jim Jefferies
I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.—Sam Brownback
I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.—Tim Walz
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.—Tracy Chapman
I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don't trust men that much any more.—Marsha P. Johnson
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.—David Mamet
I grew up in a trailer until I was 5 or 6, and then my dad chased us out with a gun.—Cole Escola
I grew up watching Hong Kong noir films. As a kid, I often imagined myself playing the lead role in such movies, performing gun fights and sacrificing myself for the sake of friendship.—Jeon Yeo-been
I hated "Top Gun."—Paul Rudd
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.—Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have a science YouTube channel where I will sometimes use my engineering skills to build things such as the world's largest Super Soaker or the Guinness World Record world's largest Nerf gun.—Mark Rober
I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.—Bernie Mac
I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.—Wild Bill Hickok
I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late "70s they took one look at me and said, "Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun," and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.—M. C. Gainey
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.—Raymond Chandler
I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.—J. D. Vance
I like that run and gun type of stuff. That fits right into how I like to play.—Nick Young
I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.—Donnie Yen
I love looking at pictures of me in 2012-2017, because every single one of those Machine Gun Kellys looks different.—Machine Gun Kelly
I love New York City; I've got a gun.—Charles Barkley
I made "Bowling for Columbine" in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.—Michael Moore
I myself am a Texan. I own a gun - or a couple. I am licensed to carry. I am all the things. But it's all or nothing, "Oh, well, Democrats just want to take your guns away." No.—Jasmine Crockett
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.—Rafik Hariri
I really enjoy the immediacy of the "knife and gun clubs," as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.—Ethan Canin
I remember when we were making "They Call It Pro Football," which was our "Citizen Kane." The first line is "It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun."—Steve Sabol
I spent my older teen years holding my tongue while my Hollywood coworkers gushed about big government, attacked anyone to the Right of raging socialism, and shunned me every time I posted a picture with a gun.—Brett Cooper
I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.—Eric Swalwell
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.—Barbara Kruger
I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, "Machine Gun Kelly" - it is very loud, and it says a lot.—Machine Gun Kelly
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.—Stephen King
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.—George W. Bush
I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.—Haskell Wexler
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.—Carol Burnett
I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.—Bob Feller
I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.—Michael Trucco
I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.—Anne Reid
I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.—Kevin Bacon
I'm a gun owner.—Patrick Leahy
I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.—Blake Farenthold
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.—Randy Travis
I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.—Art Bell
I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin", profilin", limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin" n" dealin" son of a gun!—Ric Flair
I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.—Ted Nugent
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.—Don Marquis
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?—Marilyn Manson
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.—Ralph Fiennes
If I'm able to communicate one thing to adults, it would be this: it should not be easier to purchase a gun than it is to obtain a driver's license, and military-grade weapons should not be accessible in civilian settings.—Emma Gonzalez
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.—Wil Wheaton
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.—W. H. Auden
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.—Serena Williams
If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.—Penn Jillette
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!—Nathan Myhrvold
If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.—Mark Leibovich
If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.—Bruce Willis
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.—John Dingell
If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If you want someone who can carry a gun and still play a father, you get Danny Glover. My category is "that guy who happens to be black."—Joe Morton
If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.—Pat Paulsen
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.—Joe Wurzelbacher
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.—Joe Wurzelbacher
In Florida, to buy a gun, you do not need a permit, you do not need a gun license, and once you buy it, you do not need to register it. You do not need a permit to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun. You can buy as many guns as you want at one time.—Emma Gonzalez
In its brief 14-episode run, "Firefly" gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course.—Jay Kristoff
In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don't need a gun - and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses.—Robert Zubrin
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.—Pedro Reyes
Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.—Colin Powell
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.—Alana Stewart
It can be frustrating that, despite widespread support for common sense gun safety measures, Congress is moving at a snail's pace. But remember that great change takes time.—Chris Murphy
It doesn't fill me with joy, being the gun guy.—Bob Morley
It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.—Don Lemon
It gives us a look into a world that's very much like "Traffic" was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.—Jared Leto
It isn't brave to stand up for gun control in a building surrounded by armed guards. It's simply elitist.—Katie Pavlich
It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say "gun control," it sets a red flag.—Joe Perry
It used to be that kids used to drive to school, they might have their hunting rifle in the back of their truck. Principals kept a gun in their office. Coaches might keep a gun and their office kids were protected at school. But Joe Biden passed gun-free school zones, and we were for the first time unprotected.—Marjorie Taylor Greene
It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of "98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.—Ben Affleck
It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.—Chris Murphy
It's awesome to have a brand like Reebok support what you stand for as well as your creative vision, and I'm excited to show you what a Reebok and Machine Gun Kelly collaboration is all about.—Machine Gun Kelly
It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.—Bob Barr
It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.—Ron Johnson
It's your right to own a gun. It's a privilege to own a car.—John Popper
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.—P. J. O'Rourke
Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.—Sam Brownback
The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers" license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.—Eliot Spitzer
There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.—Jeanne Marie Laskas
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.—Debi Mazar
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.—Carolyn McCarthy
I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.—Anthony Ray Hinton
There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.—Elizabeth Esty
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.—Taya Kyle
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.—Eliot Spitzer
We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.—Jean Kennedy Smith
There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.—Chris Murphy
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.—Emmanuel Jal
It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.—Si Robertson
Long before gun control was touted as "common sense" measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.—Niger Innis
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.—Matt Groening
Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.—Derrick Grayson
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.—Paul Craig Roberts
Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.—Emma Gonzalez
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.—Benazir Bhutto
My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, "Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before." I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.—Jennifer Lawrence
My dad once told me, he was like, "The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says "Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you." And that really stuck with me.—Jaden Smith
My mother was the first African-American policewoman in Seattle - recruited, actually - and she did it for only 2 years, as she did not want to carry a gun. She worked mostly on domestic disturbances. The NAACP wanted her to do it. She did not actually have the temperament to be a cop - she was very sweet. She had a Masters in social work.—Brian Stokes Mitchell
Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.—Manfred von Richthofen
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.—Vladimir Lenin
One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.—Megalyn Echikunwoke
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.—Emmanuel Jal
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.—Carolyn McCarthy
Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, "Well, where's the smoking gun?" Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.—Donald Rumsfeld
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.—Robert Mugabe
Joe Biden's nomination of gun-grabber David Chipman, who wants to ban, confiscate, and destroy the most popular self-defense and hunting rifle in America owned by millions of American patriots, is a clear indication that the ATF's war on gun owners is just beginning and is about to crank up.—Marjorie Taylor Greene
Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.—Kamala Harris
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.—Malala Yousafzai
People feel very strongly about the Second Amendment. Their rights. And so if we can find, agree on, for example, that we should have responsible gun ownership just like we have responsible use of automobiles. Nobody wants someone getting behind the wheel that shouldn't be there. And the same is true with guns.—Ralph Northam
People should remember that in the 2000s, the gun lobby got a lot passed: they got riders added to appropriations bills. They got immunity for the gun industry. They successfully managed the expiration of the assault weapons ban.—Chris Murphy
We need commonsense measures, gun control measures, that save lives. I think that it is important that we keep the firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and criminals and terrorists. And I also think, by strengthening our background check system and expanding mental health treatment, we can do that as well.—Catherine Cortez-Masto
In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more - no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.—John Hickenlooper
There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.—Michael D. Barnes
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.—Robert Dallek
We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.—Elizabeth Esty
The grip of the NRA is so suffocating in Washington that politicians are too afraid of the gun lobby to pass even the most sensible reforms, like universal background checks.—John Fetterman
Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.—Joe Biden
On "Sufferer," I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: "I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better." It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, "Get busy, shake that thing."—Sean Paul
Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.—Steven Pinker
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.—Stephen J. Dubner
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.—Harry Browne
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.—Mao Zedong
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.—Juan Williams
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.—Helen Thomas
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.—Jean Genet
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.—Ziggy Marley
Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun."—Jeff Cooper
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.—Diane Abbott
Obviously a president can't rule as a king and ban all guns. But I think we need a president who is going to make sure that there is gun control and that people still feel like their freedoms are intact.—Paul F. Tompkins
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.—Sebastian Junger
Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.—Ted Nugent
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.—Ted Nugent
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.—Ted Nugent
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.—Ted Nugent
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.—Thomas Sowell
I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.—William J. Clinton
I don't think we need more gun control laws.—John Kennedy
I would like to have my gun for protection.—Taya Kyle
Some guy was just like, "You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun," and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.—Lil Uzi Vert
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in "Top Gun" and I turned it down.—Scott Baio
I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.—Catherine Ndereba
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.—Benjamin Banneker
Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.—Christina Milian
States and cities with the most stringent gun laws are the same places where gun crimes run rampant; the truth of the matter is, gun laws are only useful for those who follow the law, not the criminals who take advantage of the Second Amendment.—Byron Donalds
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.—Jimmy Carter
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.—Pearl S. Buck
The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.—James Garner
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.—R. Buckminster Fuller
The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.—Eddie Vedder
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.—P. G. Wodehouse
The gun violence epidemic is out of control and it's a crisis that is too glaring to ignore.—Ritchie Torres
The media try to make rank-and-file Americans feel guilty about buying a gun. The enemies of freedom demonize gun buyers and portray us as social lepers. But we know the truth. We know that responsible gun ownership exemplifies what is good and right about America.—Wayne LaPierre
The NRA is funded by weapons manufacturers, and those same manufacturers know that they stand to lose some business if we pass common-sense gun legislation. As a result, the NRA contributes money to politicians to ensure that gun control never happens.—Ana Kasparian
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.—H. Rap Brown
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.—Ida B. Wells
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.—Huey Newton
The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of thousands of Americans each year.—Emma Gonzalez
The problem is not that there are too many guns. It's that there are people that will go out and break the law, whether it's a gun or some other weapon or a bomb.—Steve Scalise
The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.—Emma Gonzalez
The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.—Peter Welch
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.—Anthony J. D'Angelo
The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!—Hailee Steinfeld
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.—Steven Weber
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.—Ted Nugent
There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.—Kemba Walker
There is no difference, where aims are concerned, between a terrorist with a gun and bomb in his hand and a terrorist who has dollars, euros, and interest rates.—Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There is this film called "La Femme Nikita." I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her hand but with tears in her eyes. I would love to play that kind of vulnerability on screen.—Sarita Choudhury
There's a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don't get help. But there's absolutely a gun control problem in the country.—Rosalynn Carter
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.—Larry Elder
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.—Toussaint Louverture
This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.—Joe Arpaio
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.—Douglas Horton
Throughout my campaign for Congress, I promised the people of Northwest Georgia that I would be the strongest defender of gun rights on Capitol Hill.—Marjorie Taylor Greene
To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.—Mario Testino
To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.—Wayne LaPierre
Together we can, and must, make gun violence a thing of the past.—Jasmine Crockett
Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.—Henry Rollins
Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.—Bob Barr
Until maybe my coworker makes a six-and-a-half-foot Nerf gun, I'm the proud holder of a world record.—Mark Rober
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.—David Goggins
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.—Hussein of Jordan
Each year, about 45 million people are affected by war. Three hundred thousand people die looking down the barrel of a gun - and 200,000 of these are killed in countries ostensibly at peace.—Hilary Benn
The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.—Condoleezza Rice
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.—Mao Zedong
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.—Moshe Dayan
We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don't need to be in conflict.—Elizabeth Esty
We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.—Matt Mead
We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.—Ferdinand Marcos
We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.—Jon Stewart
We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.—Jeh Johnson
We know a Hillary Clinton White House would be ground zero for a massive attack on our freedom. A revolving door and cash register for every Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and every gun ban group in the world.—Wayne LaPierre
We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.—Baba Kalyani
We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.—Baba Kalyani
Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.—Channing Tatum
What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.—Peggy Noonan
What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate - let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law - that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?—Patrick Murphy
What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.—Adam Peaty
When "Top Gun" came out, my sisters were like, "Oh, my God, "Top Gun!" Tom Cruise!" And I very confidently said, "I'm going to marry him one day." It wasn't like, "How do I get to Tom Cruise?" It was just, "I think I'm going to marry him. Why not? He'll like me. I'm fun."—Katie Holmes
When I was doing "Generation Kill" in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.—Kellan Lutz
When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.—Byron Katie
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.—Raymond Chandler
When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.—Dean Norris
When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.—Craig Bruce
When the NRA wants to prevent gun reform, they funnel money into the campaigns of candidates nationwide to make sure they don't vote for common sense gun reform. Insurance companies do the same to block Medicare for All and prevent us from guaranteeing health care as a right, not a privilege.—Kirsten Gillibrand
When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.—Scott Westerfeld
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.—Harry S Truman
When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.—Apolo Ohno
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.—Jon Meacham
While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.—Letitia James
Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.—Greg Giraldo
Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. "Lost Highway" is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.—Robert Loggia
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.—Brendan I. Koerner
When I was 23, I went to my dad's second wedding, full of tightly repressed rage, given expression only by my wedding outfit. I wore a suit, because it was a wedding, but I also went for a bright red T-shirt with the word "ANTI" printed on it, a necklace with a silver gun pendant and a brooch that looked a bit like a swastika.—Simon Amstell
I think we have the best women's division on Smackdown Live. But, I miss Charlotte like a son of a gun. She's my favorite person to be in the ring with. She's the most incredible talent, and she keeps improving. When you've got a talent like that who's always stepping up their game, it always keeps you stepping up your game.—Becky Lynch
On healthcare, climate change, nuclear disarmament, gun control and countless other issues, President Obama consistently made difficult choices and put the national interest over his own political interest to do what was right. All the while, he resisted the politics of cynicism in a system that too often encourages it.—Jack Schlossberg
My great-great-aunt was a terrorist. I'm not talking about the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I'm proud of it.—Ash Sarkar
There's no good reason that progressives should have the monopoly on emotional politicking. Moderate Democrats care just as much as they do about gun violence, climate change, abortion rights, and other issues that matter to the middle class. They've just got to show it.—Jessica Tarlov
The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it would be successful. I did not realize how successful it would be.—Lonnie Johnson
If the goal is to reduce gun deaths and ensure safe, legal firearm usage, activists on both sides should stop fearing data and start embracing it.—Leana S. Wen
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.—Isaac Bashevis Singer
I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.—Hailey Gates
I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.—Irina Shayk
Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.—Marc Morial
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.—Huey Newton
There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban that passed in 1994.—Charlie Sykes
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.—Michael Steele
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.—Joe Slovo
You can't tell my fans that there's a better rapper than Machine Gun Kelly... Hands down, there's no way I'm not in the top five.—Machine Gun Kelly
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.—Helen Thomas
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.—Josephine Baker
Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.—Mehmet Oz
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.—Norman Cousins
2020 has been a difficult year for all of us. The gun at hand was to symbolize that bigger battles need to be fought and the difficulties of 2020 have made us stronger and united as a community to face 2021 with a bang.—Jubin Nautiyal
A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.—Michio Kaku
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.—George W. Bush
I can take on the world with a glue gun and a can of spray paint!—Stacey Solomon