Post your favorite gun and self-defense related quotes.

[Damien45]

My reply to an anti-gunner who said "Violence causes more violence" was simply

"When I have to defend myself against violence, it was already there. I just chose how to end it."


A mom (friend of mine) asked me why I carry a gun. I asked her, "Would you rather have your daughter's date have a condom in his wallet, just in case?"

 

[jeepmor]

A THR member gets credit for this one. Unfortunately, I can't recall the member or the quote exactly, but the premise sure stuck with me.

"you don't schedule an emergency, so carry your gun."

 

[rwdflynavy]

There was a discussion on another forum about what folks say to acquaintances who ask why they carry a gun.

The best response I saw was "In case I have to shoot somebody"

 

[gunsmith]

Hitler didn't say that

This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!
Adolph Hitler

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcbogus.html

 

[Damien45]

Another one I saw somewhere was:

"Carry always, or guess right"

Of course that is up there with:

"Better to be judged by 12, than carried by 6."

 

[wizard of oz]

..in response to john-melb..

Man walking down street in rural oz is stopped by LEO...

"What's that ?" in reference to bulge in front waistband.

man lifts shirt to reveal pistol mexican carry

"YOU CAN'T WALK DOWN THE STREET LIKE THAT !! - You'll blow your nuts off ! Get a holster if you want to carry your gun around"

 

[ZeSpectre]

"If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law." - Sir Winston Churchill

 

[willbrink]

Some one else posted

"NRA life member JFK was shot by ACLU member L. H. Oswald."

Is the above actually true?

 

[Brass Hawg]

When seconds count, remember the police are only 5 min. away.

 

[Pax Jordana]

Gotta love that poster generator.

 

[Damien45]

 

[twenty711]

Jake: What do we do?
Johnston: We solider on.
(Jake nods)
Jake: What do we do with that?
(Eric, Jake, and Johnston turn to look at the tank)
Johnston: Oh.
(Stanley inspecting the tank)
Johnston: Stanley? Got room in your barn?
Stanley: Seriously?
Johnston: Why not? Never know when you might need a tank.
(Johnston walks away)

 

[twenty711]

Fake Soldier: "It's him or us"
Johnston: "I vote for you"
Johnston: "You know, ammunition being in such short supply I doubt those guns are even loaded"
Fake Soldier: "You want to take that chance?"
Johnston: " I know damn well this one is."

 

[Biker]

Well...I hope you're not allergic to lead.

Biker

 

[koja48]

Forgot this one from "Tombstone" ~ ". . . but not before I turn your head into a canoe, Ike."

And my reply to an anti's statement that "Guns scare me." "Bad people scare me." She went shooting with me a time or two, took training, now has her CC permit & a lovely little Lady Smith . . .

 

[Sage of Seattle]

"Try it f**k, and I'll kill ya."

-Me

(the guy I said this to came up to me several days later and apologized profusely for his stepping over the line, so it was all okay.)

 

[MilsurpShooter]

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[Quiet]

"It's better to have a gun and not need it. Than need a gun and not have it." - Christian Slater as Clarence Worley in the movie True Romance.

 

[TonyB]

twenty711...I LOVE Jerico......great quotes from a great show

Here's my fav. gun quote:"anybody worth shooting,is worth shooting twice."
Others:
When in doubt:Mozambeke his a$$
I'm gonna need a bigger gun(me when bears were spotted in our back yard)

You can't argue w/ a 357...well you CAN,but you end up bleeding alot.
I don't beg for my life..I shoot for it.

 

[Biker]

One of my favorites came from one of THR Mods. Can't remember if it was Byron or Correia but it went something like "If you come out of there with a gun, the undertaker will be wiping your butt before morning".

I might plagiarise it someday.

Biker

 

[Rev. DeadCorpse]

As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. Tenche Coxe to James Madison. Federal Gazette. 1789.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry. March 23, 1775

Hávamál 38.
Let a man never stir on his road a step
without his weapons of war;
for unsure is the knowing when
need shall arise
of a spear on the way without.

“Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.”
- John Adams, Boston Gazette, Sept. 5, 1763

"A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government." — Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority (1867)

"Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment’s respite, deserve only the end of a rope... America’s historic misfortune is that her people have seldom been equal to the ideals upon which their nation was established. "— L. Neil Smith, The American Zone (2001)

Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.- L. Neil Smith. The Atlanta Declaration

"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." — L. Neil Smith

 

[kludge]

"When only the police have guns, you live in a police state." -Kludge, 1994. Yup, my local paper actually published that "letter to the editor" after I saw A.G. Janet Reno on the morning news ("Today" show, I think, talking about AWB)

 

[OK-gobbler]

"Yes sir, you can have my guns, but I am going to give you all my bullets first."

"Gun Control means using both hands."

"I got a new rifle for my wife.--The best trade I ever made."

 

[ZeSpectre]

DISCLAIMER: I don't go in much for the chest beating kind of statements but this was a "get control of the situation now or be hurt badly/die" scenario that happened to me as a rookie cop when some punks mistook me for a security guard on the property where they were dealing drugs.

5 punks - Yo man, we done tolt' you rent-a-cops this was our place but youz too damn stupid to stay away. They is five of us and one of you so we gonna make you pay!

Me - (Drawing S&W 686) Well there are five of you and six bullets in this gun so I guess I get to shoot one of you -twice-.

It was quite a shock to them as the security guards were unarmed.

 

[Sawdust]

"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, 4 out of 5 US murders are committed in the other half of the country. So who is crazy?"
- Andrew Ford

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
— John F. Kennedy

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
- Charles A. Beard

"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

"The world consists largely of weak men made and kept free by better men than themselves." - John Stuart Mill, 1865

"Well, we know what motivates the hoplophobe. He simply envies the man who can cope where he, the hoplophobe, cannot. A skilled, armed man lives on a plane of security and contentment different from that of others. This is not egalitarian! The man who cannot cut it, envies, fears, and sometimes hates the man who can." – Jeff Cooper

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -James Madison

"The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible."
-Machiavelli

"My position is that anybody in favor of gun control is a f*cking moron." - Jackie Mason

Sawdust