Guns Quotes

“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with toy guns.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Veldt

“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, The Testaments

“Well known how violent it is in the States. Worst you'll get here,' said Jack, 'is a good punch-up and maybe your car pushed over the cliff.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“The worse the leaders are, the more afraid they are of an armed populace”
― Keiichi Sigsawa, Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World

“الطوب الذي يلقى على أي فكرة جديدة هو أشبه بالمدافع التى تطلق لتحية زائر عظيم”
― مصطفى أمين, أفكار ممنوعة

“the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren’t much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

“A blessing on those happy ages that did not know the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor is, I feel sure, being rewarded in hell for his diabolical creation, by which he made it possible for an infamous and cowardly hand to take away the life of a brave knight as, in the heat of the courage and resolution that fires and animates the gallant breast, a stray bullet appears, nobody knows how or from where - fired perhaps by some fellow who took fright at the flash of the fiendish contraption, and fled - and in an instant put an end to the life and loves of one who deserved to live for many a long age.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Fondling their weapons, feeling suddenly so young and good they are reminded that guns are more than decoration, intimidation or comfort. They are meant.”
― Toni Morrison, Paradise

“Guns are the tools of the poorly educated.”
― Steven Magee

“How can we speak to each other like equals when one of us is holding a gun?”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

“When you have to kill to get it, you’re gonna get killed If you keep it. That’s Karma”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Since they were made by hand, no two long rifles were exactly alike. Granted, the majority might appear very similar to anyone except their rightful owner. But look closer, and each weapon's uniqueness became obvious. Small variations in the wood furniture or the fittings were of course to be expected. Much larger innovations were also common—Sergeant Murphy, for instance, was believed to have had a double-barreled rifle. It was an over-under design, with one barrel above the other. The arrangement would have made it quicker for him to get off a second shot, a key asset in battle as well as hunting.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“While guns are commonly used to commit suicide, it tends to be a poor choice because many people survive the gunshot wound and slowly bleed to death in pain.”
― Steven Magee

“It is no exaggeration to give John Browning credit for creating much of the modern world of guns. "To say he was the Edison of the modern firearms industry does not quite cover the case, for he was even greater than that," wrote Captain Paul Curtis in Guns and Gunning. "Browning was unique. He stood alone, and there was in his time or before no one whose genius along those lines could remotely compare with his.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“The gun's roots go straight back to the last days of the nineteenth century. The U.S. Army was deep in the jungles of the Philippine Islands, which they inherited after the Spanish-American War. Our soldiers were fighting a fierce counterinsurgency war against radical Islamist Moro tribesmen. The tribesmen had a habit of charging Americans with long knives while wearing wood-and leather body armor. The Moro fanatics supposedly fought under the influence of powerful narcotics, which made them almost immune to pain. Shoot them, and they just kept coming. It was like something out of a zombie movie. The regulation firearms at the time, .38 Long Colt revolvers and .30 Krag rifles, didn't have the man-stopping power for this kind of an attack.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“There's an urban myth, still popular in some quarters, that the Glock can't be detected by X-ray machines. The myth was spread by a Bruce Willis line in the 1990 movie Die Hard 2: "That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun, made in Germany. Doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines." Every bit of the line was false: there was no such thing as a "Glock 7"; Glocks are made of polymer, not porcelain; it was made in Austria, not Germany; and they do show up on X-ray machines. But in a strange twist, the firestorm of controversy triggered by the false rumors may have helped goose publicity and aid Glock sales.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“Whether they're used in war or for keeping the peace, guns are just tools. And like any tool, the way they're used reflects the society they're part of. As times change, guns have evolved. If you don't like guns, blame it on the society they're part of.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“Any idiot can kill his enemy with a gun; the hardest is to kill your enemy with love! Love kills her enemy by making the enemy her friend!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In the waning decades of the twentieth century, liberals and conservatives alike cast the lingering divisions of the 1960s less as matters of law and order than as matters of life and death. Either abortion was murder and guns meant freedom or guns meant murder and abortion was freedom. How this sorted out came to depend upon party affiliation.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“It is wiser to be homeless with a gun than be gunless in your home.”
― Evann Puskas Tremblay

“I screamed but he couldn't hear me over the blast of the gun or the explosions that followed. I wish I had never touched the damn thing. Guns cause more problems than they're worth.”
― Ben Ditmars, The Zeppelin Chronicles

“An eccentric feature of the new gun laws is that people entering the state capitol can skip the long lines of tourists waiting to pass through metal detectors if they show the guards a license-to-carry permit. In other words, the people most likely to bring weapons into the building aren't scanned at all. Many of the people who breeze through are lawmakers or staffers who actually do tote concealed weapons into the offices and onto the floor of the legislature. But some lobbyists and reporters have also obtained gun licenses just to skirt the lines.
I'm one of those people.”
― Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

“With more than a million Texans licensed to carry handguns, the state is actually far behind Florida, with 1.7 million. "I'm EMBARRASSED," Governor Greg Abbott tweeted in 2015; "Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA”
― Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

“Disarming law-abiding citizens will not stop unlawful citizens from obtaining one.”
― Cliff Hannold

“Every time there is a mass shooting in the USA, I wonder if the shooter was an insane masturbator.”
― Steven Magee

“Guns are a product of their time. An American long rifle, stock smooth and silky, frame lightweight, barrel long and sleek—the man who made this gun worked in the dim light of a small forge, and chose carefully the wood to use. His fingers went raw as he honed the stock, and the iron from a nearby mine stained his hands and the water he used to cool the parts as he finished.
Take the gun up now, and the smell of black powder and saltpeter sting the air. Raise the rifle to your shoulder and look into the distance. You see not a target but a whole continent of potential, of great things to come, a promising future . . . but also toil, trial, and hardship. The firearm in your hands is a tool to help you through it.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“A Spencer—now here is an intricate machine, a clockwork of a gun finely thought out, each piece doing many different parts of the job as the weapon is aimed and gotten ready to fire. This is a gun of a time when imagination sprang forward, when the brain was a storm of ideas, one leading to another, then more, and others beyond that. This is a machine of pieces in a complicated dance, made to work as one; a machine no stronger than its weakest part. It is a sum far more than the simple addition of stamped metal bits and honed edges.”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms

“It would be a wonderful thing if USA police officers were trained to rely on their bullet proof vests instead of their guns.”
― Steven Magee

“If we are already holding and pointing the gun to our heads, let no one other presses the trigger.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pomračenje

“America is drowning in guns. Even if they were all banned from midnight tonight, it would probably take a century or two to get them all out of circulation and maybe not even then.”
― Stewart Stafford