Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry. — Wyatt Earp
You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun! — Roddy Piper
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. — George Washington
If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert — Thomas Ian Nicholas
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. — Al Capone
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver — Hermann Goring
If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated — Nancy Pelosi
Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? — Malala Yousafzai
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. — William S. Burroughs
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
Funny Gun Quotes
I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win." — Mitch Hedberg
Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives. — James Gosling
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. — Dianne Feinstein
You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun. — Mitch Hedberg
People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction. — Bill Hicks
Never go to clubs with metal detectors. Sure it feels safe inside. But what about all those niggas waiting outside with guns? They know you ain't got one. — Chris Rock
Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one. — Andy Borowitz
Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie
Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun). — Eddie Izzard
Anti Gun Quotes
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party. — Mao Zedong
I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder. — Harry Patch
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison. — Rosie O'Donnell
I don't believe people should to be able to own guns. — Barack Obama
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free. — A. E. van Vogt
All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars. — Charles Schumer
If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available. — Diana DeGette
No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. — James Burgh
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans. — William J. Clinton
Short Gun Quotes
I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them! — John Chafee
What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. — Sarah Vaughan
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn! — Josh Hartnett
We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously present. Let us take the guns away from the people. — Patrick V. Murphy
The left has written books and done little short vignette movies about assassinating George W. Bush. And once again, for all the CNN fear running around about violence against journalists, the only people I've seen picking up guns is Democrats aiming at Republicans. — Rush Limbaugh
Nick O'Leary is a tough kid. He doesn't use gloves. It's freezing outside and he's obviously wearing short sleeves like all the other guys that let their "guns" stick out. — Jack Nicklaus
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules. — Gagan Narang
The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range. — Jeff Cooper
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. — Ethan Zuckerman
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? — Arundhati Roy
Pro Gun Quotes
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. — Seneca
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' — John Fugelsang
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. — George Orwell
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home. — Ronald Reagan
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. — Wayne LaPierre
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. — Samuel Adams
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants. Pro-Bitcoin advocates want protection against tyrants, too. The difference is how these two groups define tyranny. — Max Keiser
There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys. — Charlton Heston
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms. — Joseph Story
Top Gun Quotes
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine. — Angelina Jolie
There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns. — Andy Richter
My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, "The Russians are Coming". So we screened Red Dawn and Top Gun. — Olivia Thirlby
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down. — Scott Baio
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude. — P. J. O'Rourke
The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory. — Rush Limbaugh
If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can. — Barack Obama
The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets. — Walter Winchell
Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best. — Jim Hill
Top Gun was one of my favorite movies growing up. — Stephen Colletti
Gun Control Quotes
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
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
You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. — Clint Eastwood
Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls. — Snoop Dogg
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. — Malcolm X
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. — Vladimir Lenin
Carrying Guns 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.
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.
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
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
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism. — Malala Yousafzai
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. — Mario Puzo
Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! — Humphrey Bogart
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? — Mae West
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce
Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe. — Dianne Feinstein
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
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
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
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. — Huey Newton
Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation. — Sheila Jackson Lee
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank Costello
A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison. — Joe Arpaio
One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time. — Jeff Cooper
One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy. — Jeff Cooper
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster
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