Sunday, March 25, 2012 – Guns
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Basically, there’s not enough sex in movies, that’s it. I’m trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not. ~ Zoe Saldana
Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. ~ Edward Abbey
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. ~ David Seabury
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA – ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State. ~ Heinrich Himmler
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ~ Hermann Goering
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I’m used to having a few guns around to protect me. ~ Loretta Lynn
I don’t shoot guns. I don’t know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists. ~ Jimmy Fallon
I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favorite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks. ~ Jeri Ryan
I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off. ~ Roger Moore
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses ’em – sometimes just for the hell of it. ~ Shelley Duvall
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. ~ Joseph Stalin
If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler’s mum, guns and broccoli. ~ Dominic Monaghan
If you can’t protect yourself with talk, you won’t be alive to protect yourself with guns. ~ Arthur Boyd
In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn’t have any, they gave you some. ~ Emo Philips
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout “Bang!” ~ George Will
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~ Ernest Gaines
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun. ~ Don Henley
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 your constant companion of your walks. ~ Thomas Jefferson
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it’s happened I guess I’m just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy. ~ John Dillinger
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. ~ Jean-Luc Godard
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. ~ Daniel Boone
An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. ~ Ross MacDonald
Don’t carry a gun. It’s nice to have them close by, but don’t carry them. You might get arrested. ~ John Gotti
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 have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
I love New York City; I’ve got a gun. ~ Charles Barkley
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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. ~ Douglas Horton
When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun. ~ Craig Bruce
Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns. ~ Mitch Ratcliffe
I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn’t trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string. ~ Scott Adams
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun). ~ Eddie Izzard
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn’t be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. ~ Irwin Shaw
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. ~ Marshall Rosenberg
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ~ Alan Paton