I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
What gun owners would support policies that are blatantly designed to strip them of their constitutional freedom? To put it bluntly: gullible gun owners.
In Florida, to buy a gun, you do not need a permit, you do not need a gun license, and once you buy it, you do not need to register it. You do not need a permit to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun. You can buy as many guns as you want at one time.
In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked.
When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It’s just inside of them. It’s who they are.
According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.
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.’
It takes a while to establish a character. Richard Boone once told me he didn’t really get the character in ‘Have Gun – Will Travel’ until the 16th show. You just plant a seed, water it, let the sun shine on it, and hope it blooms.
Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.
Concealed-carry reciprocity, I believe, undermines American gun laws by forcing states to accept carry-permitting standards of every other state, including some states that have no standards at all.
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
I really enjoy the immediacy of the ‘knife and gun clubs,’ as they’re so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.
I’m sure my father would applaud the explosion of youth activism that has emerged in response to the gun violence pandemic. I’m certain my parents would agree it is gratifying to see young people leading social change projects in a multiracial coalition.
I shoot occasionally, but I’m no gun expert.
The problem is not that there are too many guns. It’s that there are people that will go out and break the law, whether it’s a gun or some other weapon or a bomb.
I love looking at pictures of me in 2012-2017, because every single one of those Machine Gun Kellys looks different.
I grew up watching Hong Kong noir films. As a kid, I often imagined myself playing the lead role in such movies, performing gun fights and sacrificing myself for the sake of friendship.
I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like ‘The Left-Handed Gun.’ They don’t know anything about Western history.
But most good movies have a gun in them.
I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, ‘Maverick’ and ‘Have Gun – Will Travel.’ But filmically, classics like ‘High Noon’ and ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ – that’s one of my favorite films.
The ‘Agent X’ set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
The gun is not out of Irish politics.
I think it’s a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think about is, ‘How can I go promote my gun control agenda?’ as opposed to saying, ‘How do I go pray and help the families that are suffering?’
In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more – no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.
Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that’s still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it’s not forgotten.
Whenever I’m cooking at home over a steamy pot, I daydream about the day I’ll have a soda gun installed in my kitchen to spray seltzer directly into my mouth.
I can take on the world with a glue gun and a can of spray paint!
I grew up in – I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most families had guns for hunting, target practice, whatever. The vast majority of people I knew never used their guns for any crime.
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I’m a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.
I made ‘Bowling for Columbine’ in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.
I’ve always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I’d always return home with a handful of prizes.
