Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.
What’s the worst that could happen? You’re going to come second or lose? It’s not like someone has got a gun to your head.
Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming ‘soft targets.’
I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to ‘Band Of Brothers.’ That’s always useful. I’ve got lots and lots of random skills I’ll probably never need again.
If there’s one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.
There’s no way I’m not gonna have a gun, ’cause you just never know what’ll go down in Atlanta. But I’d rather be able to protect myself and have the right, and not have to think about the consequences if I’m just trying to protect myself.
This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.
I’m the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.
I am used to doing dramatic work, but its fun to grab a gun, and go running around, getting beat-up. Its fun to do the action stuff, because it is really physical. There is nothing like getting into a character by getting beaten up physically.
I never used a gun in my life.
In its brief 14-episode run, ‘Firefly’ gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course.
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
I don’t run anybody else’s race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.
Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you’re most at risk.
It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate – let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law – that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?
I wasn’t driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.
Hate Story’ is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn’t tell you a joke.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that’s brotherhood. But if you – if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that’s not brotherhood, that’s hypocrisy.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate – all to gun violence.
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
It’s the reckless ideas put forward by the NRA’s leadership, and pushed through by fearful legislators, that have allowed systemic gun violence to expand, wreaking havoc on communities of color for decades.
Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you’ve got to get to it and get to it now – get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick.
Apparently, I’m very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That’s why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That’s my party trick.
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they’d shoot me.
Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn’t come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.
Let’s create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes.
I love ‘Airplane,’ and I love ‘Naked Gun’ and all those films, where you’re parodying.
If you can’t take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn’t even own a gun.
My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired ‘A Time to Remember’ to mobilize a movement for gun control.
I’m a gun owner.
If you want to change our gun laws, the best thing you can do is find a group that speaks to you and get involved.
You can’t go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you’ve got to keep it over your shoulder.
Each year, about 45 million people are affected by war. Three hundred thousand people die looking down the barrel of a gun – and 200,000 of these are killed in countries ostensibly at peace.
To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues.
No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.
The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.
My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There’s a family dynamic in making a television show that you don’t get on a movie, where you’re a hired gun for a few months.
I believe the gun is no solution to problems.
You can’t put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues – and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world.
I’d make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.
I’ve often wondered, when they’ve done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I’ve seen it, how they did that gun thing. I’ve watched it on stage, but I don’t remember it.
If you look down a barrel of a gun… you don’t forget it.
It’s one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don’t reload the gun.
If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I’m firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
The Gun Owner Privacy Act protects the right to keep and bear arms by preventing the Feds from collecting data to monitor and log gun ownership in America. This legislation will give Americans legal recourse and the ability to sue the Feds and collect damages for records illegally stored.
We think it’s reasonable to provide mandatory instant background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere, for anyone.
When American troops find themselves fighting for their lives, there is no better sound than an A-10 – a plane officially nicknamed the Thunderbolt II but known affectionately by the troops as the Warthog – firing its enormous 30-millimeter gun at the enemy.
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, ‘Machine Gun Kelly’ – it is very loud, and it says a lot.
