Where did this quote come from ??

[MIL-DOT]

It's driving me friggin' berserk,LOL!! I've run across this line as a sig-line from a couple guys on another forum (actually, a gun classified site that's in a forum format). The line is......

"Any scumbag should be flattered to be shot by such a beautiful firearm..."

I know I've heard it before, but I just cant place it, and it doesn't pop up on Google or Yahoo search engines.
My first and strongest feeling was that it was from Jayne Cobb on "Firefly", or possibly even Joe Piscopo's character "Danny Vermin" from "Johnny Dangerously" (but that was more of a longshot guess.
I could even see it being a Clint Eastwood line, but that would've surely came up on Google (assuming it's quoted correctly).
I've read through sites that have lengthy lists of quotes from this show and movie, but so far, no joy.
Does that line ring a bell with anyone?
Thanks........

 

[Swing]

Doesn't ring a bell. I doubt it is an Eastwood picture and it most certainly isn't from the Dirty Harry series. It has been a while since I've Johnny Dangerously, but I doubt that one too, though Danny Vermin does mention becoming a "real scumbag", or something to that effect.

 

[Poper]

I don't really know, but it sounds like something from "Dead Six" or possibly one of the "Lethal Weapon" flicks.

 

[Red Wind]

I just waded through a whole mess of over 300 mainly anti gun quotes and rhetoric and still did not come up with your baby!

 

[MIL-DOT]

Hey, thanks anyway guys. I found an earlier guy that posted it, and just PM'd him (on this other forum). Hopefully he'll know, and won't just tell me, "I dunno where I heard it, just thought it was a cool line".

 

[MICHAEL T]

May be from movie The way of the gun

 

[TheVision]

I thought it was an actual quote from "Carbine" Williams, but I can't remember where I read it.

 

[Warp]

That is new to me

 

[NormH3]

Even my Google-foo couldn't find it.

 

[200Apples]

.
How about this one:

Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing is sure - any man who covers his face and packs a gun is a legitimate target for any decent citizen.

 

[Beakerz]

Dead pool

 

[Theohazard]

MIL-DOT, while I don't doubt that you have the overall gist of the quote correct, I'd be willing to bet you have some (or many) of the key words wrong. Google is a pretty good search engine, so the fact that you (and I -- I tried) can't find anything in Google tells me we're missing something.

 

[Tirod]

Maybe it's just something wandering around viral on the net. No reason to think that movie script writers have an exclusive license to turn a phrase.

I wouldn't be the type to put it in my sig line. It's demeaning, arrogant, offensive, and certainly depicts a gun carrier as making life and death choices based on discrimination.

I thought the Nazi Death Camp operators were the only ones who did that. Or maybe a few bad cops on the mean streets. Or Mongol bikers. Or . . .

Just plays to the anti gunners description of us as ignorant bigots willing to shoot anyone on sight. Most likely it sprang from the fertile imagination of a 17 year old texting to a web site in study hall, and meant as a snarky parody.

Really, paraphrased it sounds like "My guns are almost too awesome to use shooting vermin like you." Small comfort when someone is pointing a gold plated Beretta at the back of someone kneeling in the sand. In Germany they just shot them with normal Lugers and Walthers and such.

In My Lai we did it with M16's.

What a wonderful thing to be associated with.

 

[txblackout]

google search for scumbag "beautiful firearm" only pulls 103 results, so something is wrong with those words in the quote.

 

[MIL-DOT]

MIL-DOT, while I don't doubt that you have the overall gist of the quote correct, I'd be willing to bet you have some (or many) of the key words wrong. Google is a pretty good search engine, so the fact that you (and I -- I tried) can't find anything in Google tells me we're missing something.

You could be correct (that it's wrong), but I'm quoting it exactly as I came across it, so if it's misquoted, it happened further up the evidence chain.
Also, I tried a couple slightly different variations and adjectives, and started with just the beginning portion, "Any scumbag should be flattered", then went to, "Any scumbag should be flattered to be shot", fully expecting to get a Goggle hit before I finished typing even that much.
So, you're likely right that there's something amiss with this phrasing.
(But i still have the nagging feeling that this, or something very similar, was said by Jayne on Firefly, though a search of Firefly quotes didn't have it either.)
Anyway, no biggie, I'll just let it gnaw at the core of my brain until my dying breath !



edit: by the way, I just tried to Google a well known quote from Sgt Schultz (of Hogan's heroes), "When it comes to war, I don't like to take sides", but it never came up, though the exact quote is in the character bios on Wikipedia. So Google isn't infallible.