Guns Quotes

“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 moves.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“No,” Gideon says. “No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.”
― Paula Stokes, Vicarious

“While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“She thought she should take a moment to pray. But, as she was holding a loaded rifle, conventional prayer did not seem entirely suitable. Sister Peg hoped that God would help her, but it was her belief that He much preferred for people to attend to themselves. Life was a test; it was up to you to pass it or not. She raised the gun to her clavicle and angled one eye down the length of the barrel.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“When has a civilian ever stopped a mass shooting with an AR-15? An AR-15 is a perfect weapon for mass murderers -- not so much for self-defense. Would you bring an AR-15 along on a date? To your place of work? To the movies? If not, how can owning an AR-15 save your life in the event of a mass shooting? Why does the NRA keep telling us we need semi-automatic rifles for self-defense? Whose side are they really on?”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Just a thought for all you God-fearin', gun-lovin', Bible-thumpin' 2nd Amendment patriots. If it turns out Heaven's a gun-free zone, what's plan B???”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“To all the kids from the "special" reading class back in high school (the one where you tried to form words using wooden blocks) -- PLEASE stop telling me that I can't blame an "inanimate object" for the off-the-hook gun violence in this country. YES! ... I CAN!!! I blame all the "inanimate objects" in Congress who refuse to pass sensible gun legislation because they're too chicken-shit to take on Wayne LaPierre and the gun lobby.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Only a few days after my encounter with the police, two patrolmen tackled Alton Sterling onto a car, then pinned him down on the ground and shot him in the chest while he was selling CDs in front of a convenience store, seventy-five miles up the road in Baton Rouge. A day after that, Philando Castile was shot in the passenger seat of his car during a police traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, as his girlfriend recorded the aftermath via Facebook Live.

Then, the day after Castile was killed, five policemen were shot dead by a sniper in Dallas. It felt as if the world was subsumed by cascades of unceasing despair. I mourned for the family and friends of Sterling and Castille. I felt deep sympathy for the families of the policemen who died. I also felt a real fear that, as a result of what took place in Dallas, law enforcement would become more deeply entrenched in their biases against black men, leading to the possibility of even more violence.

The stream of names of those who have been killed at the hands of the police feels endless, and I become overwhelmed when I consider all the names we do not know—all of those who lost their lives and had no camera there to capture it, nothing to corroborate police reports that named them as threats. Closed cases. I watch the collective mourning transpire across my social-media feeds. I watch as people declare that they cannot get out of bed, cannot bear to go to work, cannot function as a human being is meant to function. This sense of anxiety is something I have become unsettlingly accustomed to. The familiar knot in my stomach. The tightness in my chest. But becoming accustomed to something does not mean that it does not take a toll. Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.”
― Clint Smith

“The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.”
― Christopher L. Bennett, Watching the Clock

“Forget 'pray the gay away.' I you're more turned on by an AR-15 than a pair of tits, time for some serious therapy. Time for all you gun-humpers to come out of the closet. Is this really about the 2nd Amendment and self-defense -- or just a pathetic fetish for guys with tiny pee-pees?”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, Horse Latitudes

“Surrender is no guarantee that an armed police officer will not shoot you.”
― Steven Magee

“It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Guns don't kill people. People kill people.'
'But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go?”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Detective

“I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“Before we part, she returns my gun and says, "As long as you carry this you are in danger of using it.”
― Joaquin Lowe, Bullet Catcher

“A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The embrace of essential beastliness, made scientific and respectable by a reading of Darwin that may or may not have done justice to his intentions, thrilled and enthralled Western thought in certain quarters and in fact still does enthrall persons and groups that experience live in society as a barely tolerable constraint on a kind of freedom they consider a birthright. This freedom appears to have most of the essential features of a war of each against all, whether a hot war that compels them to go armed to Starbucks or to church or a cold war that makes a virtue of craftiness and guile, the ability to loot and wreck the national economy without getting caught.”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

“Chris asks, "What are you going to stick to?"

"Mah guns, boy, mah guns," I tell him. "That’s the Code of the West.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory (POAAT) is why you need to video record the police before they shoot you. Always start the video camera at the first contact, as it can go sour at any time and without warning.”
― Steven Magee

“We were not restrained in our chairs, but there were so many guns on us that if I scratched my nose, the shooting aftermath would look like somebody had just spilled a huge lasagna here.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“The weapons attacking her were a diverse mix: antiques such as American carbines, Czech-style machine guns, Japanese Type-38 rifles; newer weapons such as standard-issue People's Liberation Army rifles and submachine guns, stolen from the PLA after the publication of the "August Editorial"; and even a few Chinese dadao swords and spears.”
― Liu Cixin, Iel Migration Law in China

“Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I wouldn't care to shoot my own townsmen over a difference of opinion about politics. Keep 'em yourself if you think you need 'em; but I suggest you'll be better off to put 'em away where you can't get at 'em. The trouble with a pistol is that if you show it, you've got to use it, and once you use it you've committed yourself.”
― Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell

“If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.”
― James Hickey, Charity's Stone

“The only thing Americans love more than Walmart and firearms (and buying firearms at Walmart) is accents.”
― Brian Moylan

“I always win.”
― Brittany Noel Bostic, The Fight

“Quando un uomo con la penna incontra un uomo col fucile... L'uomo con la penna è un uomo morto!”
― Tuono Pettinato, Garibaldi: Resoconto veritiero delle sue valorose imprese, ad uso delle giovini menti

“The Gottschalk was a fine weapon.
"You," I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."
Great. Now I was talking to guns.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“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.”
― Todd Berger

“I’m not a fan of Kurt’s…I’m no longer writing my thesis on him.”

“Why?”

“He liked guns too much. It didn’t sit right with me as a gun control advocate.”

So, she had become a true conformist, one of the dreaded campus normals!”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor