| "Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a GUN.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the GUN and the GUN will never be allowed to command the Party." »Mao Zedong |
| "I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why It would take about a billion ants just to AIM a GUN at me, let alone fire it. And you know what I'm doing while they're aiming it at me I just sort of slip off to the side, and then suddenly run up and kick the GUN out of their hands." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a GUN in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict GUN control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and GUNs, I will protect my family." »Carl T. Rowan, Jr. |
| "GUN control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have GUNs are criminals. We have the strictest GUN laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed." »Lowell Duckett |
| "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the GUN. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your GUN therefore be the constant companion of your walks." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine GUNs versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine GUN is assumed to be a machine GUN-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." »Josh Sugarmann |
| "They'll have to shoot me first to take my GUN." »Roy Rogers |
| "The end move in politics is always to pick up a GUN." »Richard Buckminster Fuller |
| "The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a GUN." »Patrick Henry |
| "The National Rifle Association are the GUN nuts of the world." »Cecil Andrus |
| "Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the GUN." »Don Marquis |
| "It is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it. on GUN control" »James Brady |
| "Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a GUN." »Mao Tse Tung |
| "Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a GUN, freedom of speech has no power." »Yoshimi Ishikawa |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong GUN control legislation." »Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. |
| "To make inexpensive GUNs impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a GUN. It's racism in its worst form." »Roy Innis |
| "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 |
| "Instead of a Seeing Eye dog, what about a GUN It's cheaper than a dog, plus if you walk around shooting all the time people are going to get out of the way. Cars, too" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a GUN." »Al Capone |
| "In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these GUN registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons." »Colin Greenwood |
| "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a GUN in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." »Harper Lee |
| "Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a GUN is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces." »Joseph T. Chew |
| "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 |
| "Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your GUN when you fancy yourself betrayed." »Quentin Crisp |
| "As long as there are GUNs, the individual that wants a GUN for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Banning GUN shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving." »Bill McIntire |
| "You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a GUN than a kind word alone." »Al Capone |
| "The GUN lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time." »Sarah Brady |
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