President Barack Obama cried during his announcement of new executive actions designed to curb gun violence in the United States by restricting the access to firearms of those who present a clear danger to themselves or others and improving access to mental health services for those in need.
There is an energy that you carry when you’re nurturing another life where you’re protecting first – and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter’s gun, you can be a little more daring.
Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws.
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don’t need to be in conflict.
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they’re willing to take that risk.
It doesn’t matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
I was offered to take over for Reba in ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ but it wasn’t where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it’s just beginning.
I’m happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
I’ve been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to pull someone down to the ground, it looks and feels natural for me.
I’m not an NRA member, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.
This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.
We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.
I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.
A car is a killing machine. It’s like waving a loaded gun. People don’t realise how dangerous they are.
Americans have a warrior’s mentality, most of them. That’s how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.
I’m active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.
I don’t think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
Do you want to know where President Barack Obama is ultimately headed with his gun control edicts? Look no further than his second embrace of the tyranny of Australia’s massive gun ‘buyback’ program.
Ain’t nobody ever seen a picture of me with no gun. I have my guns for safety.
Nobody held a gun to my head and forced me to write recaps about the tenth season of ‘American Idol.’ Although I feel like someone must have and I just forgot about it.
I have a history with domestic violence myself. I have toddlers in my home, and I’m a gun owner. And, as a veteran, I’m a member of a community that has a very high suicide rate. So all of those things have touched my life.
I’m generally a very happy guy because I’m doing what I want. I’m willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don’t have to be the fastest gun in the West.
As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
I don’t recall having a gun. I really don’t. I don’t think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.
It doesn’t fill me with joy, being the gun guy.
Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.
This is the sheriff you’re talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
There’s a lot of work you have to do before you ever fire the starting gun on a health reform bill – doing the scut work with members of Congress, talking to your allies – to figure out the best plan.
Ending gun violence isn’t political. This is personal.
A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn’t a bad word.
By the end, everybody had a label – pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary… If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.
I like to stay within the context of the character’s background. If he’s a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
I am a gun owner and a hunter and a gun rights supporter.
It’s the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.
In Canadian comedy, you’ll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it’s like, ‘Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!’ Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
I have been pleased to receive petitions from groups that seek a range of new gun control measures and groups and individuals who believe additional laws are unnecessary or unwise.
There’s a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don’t know. It’s very real.
If in the script there is an argument about gun control, the most precious document you could produce at ‘The West Wing’ that week is a passionate, intelligent case against gun control. We know how to do the other one.
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it’s something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn’t mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
I always seem to love the shows with cops. I really want to play a cop – I want a badge and a gun. I’d love to do a guest spot on ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Castle.’ I think ‘Once Upon a Time’ is a great time. Fun stuff. I like to have fun with characters.
I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is – based on fact – the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That’s what socialism is and communism.
From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs’ tentacles infiltrate all parts of America’s public debates.
I don’t sit under the tattoo gun unless I’m sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
You don’t spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.
Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
When I go to Lockheed or General Motors… all those union members are gun owners. They believe in responsible gun ownership and responsible gun safety, but all those guys are gun owners, and that’s not necessarily an issue in New Jersey.
