Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.
The gun went off accidentally.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
If I’m able to communicate one thing to adults, it would be this: it should not be easier to purchase a gun than it is to obtain a driver’s license, and military-grade weapons should not be accessible in civilian settings.
If you get to the point in your career where you’re running with a gun – I’ve yet to run with a gun. I’ve stood still with a gun, and I’ve walked with a gun, but I’ve never run with a gun. Running with a gun, to me, that’s when you know you’ve really made it.
To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear – fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.
No child should be afraid to go to school, and Americans from all walks of life: students, parents, law enforcement, veterans, and law abiding gun owners, are demanding that we act to keep our kids safe.
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
Just because it’s got a gun doesn’t make it a crime novel, and just because there’s a horse doesn’t make it a western.
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It’s actually the starting gun.
I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.
I don’t have a gun, I’ve never owned one and never will.
To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.
We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.
It’s shocking to me that it’s easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
You can only explain America’s gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn’t automatically lead to violence, and it doesn’t lead to violence anywhere else but America.
We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.
My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to stem gun violence, and Romney’s answer was you should marry someone.
We have to continue to do the work, because we can’t see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.
I love New York City; I’ve got a gun.
I like stuff like ‘Top Gun.’ I like horror films. I love them.
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people – if a gun is not present, it’s generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.
I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil – just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.
Gun owners are not buying firearms because they anticipate a confrontation with the government. Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn’t there – or simply doesn’t show up in time.
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
I’m not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around – what’s there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it’s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
What I would love is a crossover between ‘Royal Pains’ and ‘Burn Notice,’ that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.
I don’t really miss pitching in games, and I don’t think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try the radar gun, just not pitch on a consistent basis. I’d love to go and try to fire up the gun, though.
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
I don’t own a gun. I’m a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don’t believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them.
I’m a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.
Long before gun control was touted as ‘common sense’ measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
When I originally came from ‘Cheetah Girls,’ I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a disconnect there. I am a grown woman, and I’ve been through a lot. The most important thing about my music is that we don’t jump the gun and throw anything out there.
I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence – laws the NRA’s leadership has fought against relentlessly.
I’d like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that’s fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.
Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation’s gun laws.
It isn’t brave to stand up for gun control in a building surrounded by armed guards. It’s simply elitist.
There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for – until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.
My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, ‘Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.’ I didn’t want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.
Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried – unless it is committed by an ‘aggrieved’ victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it’s empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
We are proudly a gun state and respect the Second Amendment.
I was shot from the funny gun.
When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I’d become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
I’m a registered, vetted gun owner, but that’s because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
It’s not about infringing upon the rights of people to own guns as gun enthusiasts or hunters, but what it is, is it is getting people to understand that we have to put in place common-sense measures. Just basic measures to keep guns out of the hands of individuals that should not have them.
It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of ’98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
I don’t have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California’s need to be improved.
