Quotes about Guns
I know this might be breaking news to Nicholas Kristof, but guns being 'more lethal than anything else you have around' is sort of the whole point. The issue should not really be the lethality of the gun, but the but the psychology of the person holding it.
- Glenn Beck
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.
- Grover Norquist
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.
- Ayn Rand
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
- Barack Obama
They were wearing camouflage gear direct from central casting, and if it hadn't been for the guns I might have laughed, not yet realizing that female laughter would soon be in short supply.
- Margaret Atwood
We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.
- Jeffrey Wright
Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
If you believe that you have the right to force me—use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.
- Ayn Rand
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
- Barack Obama
I'm prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.
- Kamala Harris
It is because of our fear of death that we want more military strength and more guns. It is because of our fear of death that we want to keep others from having access to our store of material blessings from God. It is because of our fear of death that we act in abusive ways toward each other and toward ourselves. It is because of that same fear that we have an inordinate need to be right in ways that excommunicate the other.
- Walter Brueggemann
Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.
- John Kennedy