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“This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.”
“And for God's sake, if you need to shoot make sure to release the safety , he murmured, as we moved across the front, careful to stick to the shadows as often as we could. So far, I hadn't seen any...”
“I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it...”
“I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought.”
“Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.”
“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
“Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.”
“I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.”
“This was a quarrel they did not need | It was one they knew they could never win. Beat us with a bat and we come back with Jiggers | Stick us with a knife and we bring the heaters | Plug one of us,...”
“Fucking GUNS are fucking AWESOME and when you SHOOT them at SHIT, they fucking KILL it!”
“Its herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.”
“Provoking separatist hatreds is an aggressive weed. We all have dirty hands and a broken heart. Put down your flag before you put down your weapons. If you must raise a flag, be sure it says, We is...”
“Tis true, Dr. Buzzard, that a silver bullet must be of the largest and heaviest sort to travel with any amount o range or accuracy. But after yon hellhound took no notice o my challenge or my first...”
“The bullets are gun-eggs,” Collingswood said to Baron, looking at Vardy. Farmers squeezing their holy metal beasts to percussive climax, fertilisation by cordite expulsion, violent ovipositors. See...”
“Guns are like men—only useful for a little while. They can go off at a moment's notice when you don't want them to and they make a lot of damn fool noise doing it.”
“Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.”
“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”
“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.”
“And for God's sake, if you need to shoot make sure to release the safety ,” he murmured, as we moved across the front, careful to stick to the shadows as often as we could. So far, I hadn't seen an...”
“It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.”
