One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.
I remember this vividly: It was 1977, and I was in Sears with my mom. And I saw this display, and it was for ‘Love Gun.’ I bought the record just because of the look of that display. Because I really loved monsters.
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
I don’t know whether I’m, like, jumping the gun but it’s possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can’t receive at the moment.
When I was 10 or 11, I was on this TV series called ‘Dead Man’s Gun’ and Henry Winkler was a guest star. He hung out with me and my brother the whole time. We had no idea who he was. Our parents were star struck.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there’s somebody out there in the parking lot, and they’re getting out of their car, and they’ve got an A-15 on their shoulder, or… John Q. Public wants to sell a handgun or whatever, then there’s no background check.
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
I’ve always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.
I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.
People tend to see all black congressmen as liberals with an urban twist: They’re all for gun control and against the death penalty. It’s not true, and it shouldn’t be true.
I don’t believe in gun bans; that’s a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That’s not true.
For people who don’t love running, they don’t understand – but I never feel like anyone is putting a gun to my head to go out for a run. I feel like a kid going out to play – that feeling of when you had a bike as a kid and you’d go out and just ride and be free and have fun.
I didn’t want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, ‘Oh, Mom’s a gun moll in the movies.’
Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?
To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn’t exist before and couldn’t exist after. It’s almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you’re dead – not them. To me, photography’s always like that.
Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It’s not funny. It’s not for the movies.
The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You’re feeling gun shots. I mean, it’s not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That’s what you feel.
The characters I’ve played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There’s just one problem – it’s in North Korea.
I rarely carried a gun undercover.
If you’re old enough to be arrested, you’re old enough to carry a gun.
I don’t find imitating other people’s music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early ’90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn’t get the call to audition. I wouldn’t be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.
Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.
I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.
The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.
I’ve used guns in combat. On more than one occasion, guns have saved my life. But there’s a big difference between a U.S. Marine with a rifle and a civilian with a gun.
The NRA is funded by weapons manufacturers, and those same manufacturers know that they stand to lose some business if we pass common-sense gun legislation. As a result, the NRA contributes money to politicians to ensure that gun control never happens.
The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That’s happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn’t like it.
Donald Trump is correct when he suggests that African-Americans are outraged by gun violence.
I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
If we’re going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.
I was working on a heat pump that used water as a working fluid, and I made some jet pumps for it. I accidentally shot a stream of water across a bathroom where I was doing the experiment and thought to myself, ‘this would make a great gun.’
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.
Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.
It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. But I am friends with a lot of them, and most have armed guards with them or outside their homes.
What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It’s a scandal if he actually thinks it – that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state.
America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.
‘The Way of the Gun’ I wrote in five days.
I’ll tell ya, I’m a pro-Second Amendment person, I’m a gun owner. I went to combat with a 9 millimeter strapped to my chest and a 20 millimeter cannon on the front of my jet. I’m no stranger to weapons.
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people’s votes and the people’s guns are always inseparable twins.
Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.
You’re under the gun at all times because it’s live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you’re having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh – which is terrifying… People are filing into the audience, and you’re writing a new joke for the end of it.
We know that gun violence disproportionately affects Black people in this country, and that was no exception with my son Jordan.
I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.
I’ve really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.
If you’re a terrorist, you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun.
If you’re on a no-fly list… you probably shouldn’t own a gun without careful vetting.
The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it’s out of control.
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.
This isn’t about grabbing people’s guns; this isn’t about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list – a dangerous terrorist – should not be able to purchase a gun.
There is no one policy that can end gun violence. But a ban on the sale of assault weapons to the general public is a critical goal that must be achieved if we are ever going to have peaceful communities.
The only thing that’s going to free Huey is gun powder.
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.
I’m not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s not something I feel comfortable participating in.
