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“Something which is very much common in our society and our world at these days is that everyone worried and busy about stopping terrorism, let me to tell you that, Yes there is an easy way to stop ...”
“It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing vie...”
“He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and...”
“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
“I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.”
“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”
“You can't win because of the guns," said Adam with a sigh. "Machine guns, mortars, field guns, howitzers: it doesn't matter how much courage soldiers have, how much will; flesh and blood can't pass...”
“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. Seek...”
“Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the foundation for the invention and use of the gun, not the other way around.”
“The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.”
“the fighting machines that kept the country safe, and, the coffers full.”
“Guns are like menonly 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.”
“They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days an...”
“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.”
“I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) An...”
“Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.”
“They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”
“We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.”
“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.”