All you need                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                      for happiness is                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                     a good gun, a good ho                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                  rse, and a good wife.—Daniel Bo                                                                                                                           

                                                                                  one The three great elements of                                                                                                                          

                                                                                modern civilization, Gun powder                                                                                                                           

                                                                                  , Printing, and the Protestant re                                                                                                                          

                                                                               ligion.—Thomas Carlyle A gun is                                                                                                                            

                                                                               no more dangerous than a cricket                                                                                                                          

                                                                             bat in the hands of a madman.—Pri                                                                                                                          

                                                                            nce Philip A man with a briefcase ca                                                                                                                        

                                                                            n steal millions more than any ma                                                                                                                            

                                                                            n with a gun.—Don Henley All dic                                                                                                                             

                                                                            tators, the rich and famous, to the                                                                                                                             

                                                                             lowest security guard who hold                                                                                                                                

                                                                         s 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 ha                                                                                                                                  

                                                                      s a right to the Second Amendmen                                                                                                                                  

                                                                      t, but the people of America hav                                                                                                                                      

                                                                   e a right to safety and the prevent                                                                                                                                      

                                                                   ion of gun violence in their commu                                                                                                                                    

                                                                   nity.—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 do                                                                                                                                     

                                                                n't feel safe, I don't feel the house is                                                                                                                                     

                                                                 completely safe, if I don't have one                                                                                                                                       

                                                                hidden somewhere. That's my thin                                                                                                                                        

                                                             king, right or wrong.—Brad Pitt And                                                                                                                                         

                                                              as—funny enough, it actually becam                                                                                                                                        

                                                             e—so I've always wanted to be a Gui                                                                                                                                         

                                                          nness world record holder. And beli                                                                                                                                            

                                                          eve it or not, before I made this ther                                                                                                                                            

                                                       e was not a category for world's lar                                                                                                                                                

                                                       gest Nerf gun, but there is now.—Ma                                                                                                                                               

                                                       rk Rober As a strong supporter of ou                                                                                                                                               

                                                       r 2nd Amendment rights, I believe                                                                                                                                                  

                                                        tougher enforcement of our natio                                                                                                                                                  

                                                       n's existing gun laws must be don                                                                                                                                                  

                                                    e 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 th                                                                                                                                                  

                                                    inking.—Thomas Sowell As long as                                                                                                                                                    

                                                    we have have predatory capitalism,                                                                                                                                                   

                                                  we'll have guns because the gun industry lo                                                                                                                                       

                                                 ves to make money out of guns.—Fantastic Ne                                                                                                                                     

                                                 grito To shoot a gun proficiently, including spe                                                                                                                                   

                                              ed shooting, is much less of a skill than   typing.—B                                                                                                                               

                                              ernhard Goetz Batman doesn't use a              gun. Whe                                                                                                                           

                                           n Bruce Wayne thinks he had to reso                   rt to a st                                                                                                                         

                                           reet thug's level to defend himself an                  d the gi                                                                                                                           

                                        rl he was rescuing, he decides he can'                    t be Bat                                                                                                                           

                                        man anymore.—Paul Dini Being from                      Australi                                                                                                                          

                                     a, I've never even touched a gun. It's so                     not a pa                                                                                                                          

                                     rt of our culture.—Emily Browning Bul                       lets can                                                                                                                          

                                     not be recalled. They cannot be uninven                   ted. But                                                                                                                           

                                   they can be taken out of the gun.—Martin Am             is By                                                                                                                               

                                  the end, everybody had a label—pig, liberal, rad     ical, revol                                                                                                                             

                                  utionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radic                                                                                                                             

                               al but not a revolutionary.—Jerry Rubin Coloradans reacted                                                                                                                                 

                               adversely to gun control legislation signed into law by Hicke                                                                                                                               

                               nlooper.—Harry Enten Congress can pass reasonable gun saf                                                                                                                               

                               ety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the Americ                                                                                                                                

                               an people to do our job.—Ted Lieu Everyone smiles with that                                                                                                                               

                                invisible gun to their head.—Chuck Palahniuk Every gun tha                                                                                                                              

                            t 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 Everybod                                                                                                                       

                         y 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 Der                                                                                                                     

                   ry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun ba                                                                                                                

                      ttle 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 point                                                                                                               

                   less 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 tri                                                                                                            

                   gger.—Mario Puzo For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from ra                                                                                                     

                   cist soil—be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's hu                                                                                                  

                      manity was not recognized.—Niger Innis For over 200 years after the adoption of th                                                                                                  

                         e Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on eith                                                                                               

                         er federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.—John Paul Stevens For tho                                                                                        

                      se 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 on                                                                                 

                   e of the easi     ly available weapons in all our communities.—Robert Dallek For too many of our                                                                                  

                   citizens, Ch     ristianity 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 Go                                                                       

                      d only               helps those who arm themselves.—Paul G. Tremblay Force and mind are opposites; morali                                                               

                                              ty 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. Jus                  t 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 ow                                                               

                                                 ners have                           taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patien                                                                 

                                                 ce and ski                             ll to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powe                                                               

                                                    rful we                                     apon.—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 wit                                                                       

                                                                                                                h a machine gun. It always stayed in the ba                                                                         

                                                                                                                   ck of my head that I had reacted like that                                                                          

                                                                                                                      . It bothered me.—Noah Wyle So basic                                                                             

                                                                                                                         ally, you know, the first day on the                                                                              

                                                                                                                            job you get there and you realize                                                                               

                                                                                                                               everybody has a Nerf gun. The                                                                               

                                                                                                                                  y had, you know, the smalle                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                     r ones that shoot the dar                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                        ts. So part of the rite of                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                            passage of coming                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                               to the company                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                 is you have to                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                    get your own.                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                       —Mark   Rob