115 Carrying Guns Quotes to Help You Understand Self-Defense Benefits

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Famous Carrying Guns Quotes

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms — Thomas Jefferson

Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities. — Tucker Carlson

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer. — Wayne LaPierre

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Cesare Beccaria

I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo. — Tucker Carlson

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms. - George S. Patton

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms. — George S. Patton

I want to go where the guns are! — Chesty Puller

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? — Ernest Gaines

Redneck law: Must have a gun. Must shoot it regularly. — Willie Robertson

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson

Short Carrying Guns Quotes

  • Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! — Humphrey Bogart
  • Free men have arms; slaves do not. — William Blackstone
  • The right to buy weapons is the right to be free. — A. E. van Vogt
  • Words are loaded pistols. — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun — Bruce Campbell
  • Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young. — Kendrick Lamar
  • Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. — Thomas Jefferson
  • More guns means less crime. — Alex Jones
  • Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. — Jeff Cooper
  • If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated — Nancy Pelosi

Carrying Guns Image Quotes

Carrying guns quote A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Carrying A Gun Quotes

When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me. — Andy Griffith

If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence. — Gary Johnson

If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business. — David Prosser, Jr.

Carrying guns quote Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one d
Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. — L. Neil Smith

A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is. — Woody Guthrie

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through. — Voltairine de Cleyre

Carrying guns quote We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown
We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown us out at sea.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. — Katharine Whitehorn

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced. — Jennifer Lawrence

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns? — Neal Boortz

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him. — Conor Oberst

Gun Quotes

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Josef Stalin

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake. — Al Capone

I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun! — Ric Flair

Carrying guns quote Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette' — Matthew Healy

There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time. — Ronald Reagan

Carrying guns quote It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel. — David Duke

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Joseph Stalin

Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success. — Annie Oakley

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry. — Wyatt Earp

Carrying On Quotes

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung

Beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear or the makeup on your face BUT by the way you carry your struggles with smiles, hard work & love — Lauren Jauregui

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up. — John Cena

Carrying guns quote Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it. — Alex Jones

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Carrying guns quote We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; w
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy. — Heinrich Himmler

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented. — Edward Said

Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats. — Jim Elliot

I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour. — Hannibal

Carrying The Load Quotes

It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it. - Lou Holtz

It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it. — Lou Holtz

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better. — Lena Horne

The general trend is that people who frequently carry heavy loads and do other 'back-breaking' work get fewer back injuries than those who sit in chairs for hours bent over a machine. — Daniel Lieberman

Carrying guns quote We seek outside the wonders we carry inside us.
We seek outside the wonders we carry inside us.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. — John Newton

As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads. — Lisa Ann Sandell

We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power. — Brother Yun

Carrying guns quote Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove y
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with." — Brian Tracy

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots? — Saadi Shirazi

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. — Lena Horne

The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently. — Emile Berliner

Carrying A Child Quotes

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. — Bill Cosby

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. — Art Buchwald

I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow. — Joe Mahoney

Carrying guns quote Don't forget to fall in love with yourself first ~Carrie Bradshaw
Don't forget to fall in love with yourself first ~Carrie Bradshaw

Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live. — Randy Alcorn

There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family. — Ronald Reagan

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Carrying guns quote Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be
Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk. — Therese of Lisieux

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child — Joseph Bruchac

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals. — Gretchen Carlson

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet. — Bruce Chatwin

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More Carrying Guns Quotes

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson

If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate assaults would have been avoided yearly. — John R. Lott Jr.

And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me. — Dianne Feinstein

It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who is not, and when their intended victim shoots back it hurts their feelings - along with other things. — Jeff Cooper

I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women. — James Cagney

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson

During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times, and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives. — John R. Lott Jr.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. — Cal Thomas

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. — Chief Joseph

A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty. — John Abbott

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns. — Dan Rather

We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people forever, or to promote an Africa which is confident, peaceful, independent, but cognizant of its huge problems and great values at the same time. — Zeresenay Alemseged

If security guards aren't allowed to carry guns, I don't have to obey their made up rules. — Daniel Tosh

I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead. — Walter E. Williams

On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns. — Al McGuire

I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice. — Lina Wertmuller

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it. — Luke Scott

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. — Warren Buffett

You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter. — Mac Maharaj

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! — Alan Alda

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. — James Earl Jones

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime. — Mike Rutherford

Rand Paul tried hard to upstage Donald Trump at the first debate, talking tough about his guns and his right not to register them. But with his pixie-ish perm, Paul does not impress me as the gunslinger type. Rand Paul is the RuPaul of politics. He would do better to defend his right to carry an unregistered blow-dryer and curling irons. — Michael R. Burch

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time. — Bernhard Goetz

I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security. — Miranda Lambert

...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates. — Kenneth W. Royce

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - — Emily Dickinson

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. — Barack Obama

We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like anyone violent or carrying a gun or anything like that. But I won't know if they disagree with me unless they decide to heckle. — Jen Kirkman

I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for. — John Waters

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose. — Charley Reese

The polls...indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the youth vote. And that he might carry all fifty states....This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves -- that we really are just a nation of...used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anyone else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. — Hunter S. Thompson

We have good security. It's hard to get in here. Barring a tactical entry where terrorists come in and hold us hostage, that's about the only thing that could possibly warrant me carrying a gun in the clubhouse. That's highly unlikely, and I admit that. But my personal belief is I don't want to suffer from the poor choices of others. — Luke Scott

In Conclusion

Why read carrying guns quotes, you may ask? These quotes serve as a reminder of the importance of our rights and freedoms, and the need for responsible actions. They help you understand the implications of carrying a gun, from a philosophical, moral, and legal standpoint. By reading these quotes, you absorb the knowledge and insights of those who have walked this path before. You can use these insights to guide your actions, making you a more informed and responsible gun owner. Let these quotes inspire you, and guide you towards a safer, more responsible approach to carrying a gun.

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