Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louie Gohmert

There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

Louie Gohmert

I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office...

John Cusack

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

John Chafee

I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

Lilith Saintcrow

The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

Lil Wayne

I'ma call my guns jumpers, cause my bullets just leapin to 'em.

Lady Gaga

Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

Joseph Story

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic ...

Joseph Story

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

Mother Teresa

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Mike Huckabee

I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced - at gun point no less - to listen to every David Barton message.

Peter Kreeft

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

Pauly Shore

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

Phil Gramm

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

Phil Collins

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.

Queen Rania of Jordan

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Mackenzie Astin

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Haruki Murakami

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

Hanan Ashrawi

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

John Dryden

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

John Lydon

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

John Locke

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

John Lennon

Don't need a gun to blow your mind

John Lennon

Happiness is a warm gun.

Judith Miller

The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.

Josh Sugarmann

Although the District of Columbiahas had a ban on handgun sale and possession since 1976, Washingtonresidents are held hostage by the lax gun laws of surroundingjurisdictions.

Josh Sugarmann

The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.

Josh Sugarmann

One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year. We are.

Josh Sugarmann

... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

Josh Sugarmann

To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

Josh Sugarmann

Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The 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. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.