Your Favorite Quotes on Guns

[oneounceload]

"It ain't the arrow, it's the Indian".....sorry, don't know the origin

 

[ol' scratch]

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good"

-- George Washington

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."

-- Constitutional scholar Joseph Story, 1840

A few I have heard paraphrased over the years.

 

[Dan M.]

I don't believe that people should be able to own guns.
-Barack Obama(? Saw it once but can't find reliable source. Any help appreciated.)

Maybe derived from variations of the following:

http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm

FactCheck: Yes, Obama endorsed Illinois handgun ban

Obama was being misleading when he denied that his handwriting had been on a document endorsing a state ban on the sale and possession of handguns in Illinois. Obama responded, “No, my writing wasn’t on that particular questionnaire. As I said, I have never favored an all-out ban on handguns.”
Actually, Obama’s writing was on the 1996 document, which was filed when Obama was running for the Illinois state Senate. A Chicago nonprofit, Independent Voters of Illinois, had this question, and Obama took hard line:

35. Do you support state legislation to:
a. ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns? Yes.
b. ban assault weapons? Yes.
c. mandatory waiting periods and background checks? Yes.

Obama’s campaign said, “Sen. Obama didn’t fill out these state Senate questionnaires--a staffer did--and there are several answers that didn’t reflect his views then or now. He may have jotted some notes on the front page of the questionnaire, but some answers didn’t reflect his views.”

Source: FactCheck.org analysis of 2008 Philadelphia primary debate Apr 16, 2008

 

[Straight Shooter]

Not specifically guns but...

"I will teach my children weapons and warfare, so they might teach their children science and law, so they might teach their children art and literature."
- Unknown Greek

 

[mcdonl]

Go ahead and skin that smoke wagon... or something to that effect... Tombstone

 

[jojo200517]

"Gun control has cleared the way for seven major genocides since 1915, in which governments gone bad murdered 56,000,000 persons, including millions of children."
-Aaron Zelman

Your handgun is for fighting your way back to your rifle you shouldn't have laid down in the first damn place

 

[sigsteve]

I made this one up myself....

"You don't need 911 if you have a 1911"

 

[Hardtarget]

I like "aim small, miss small" . Mel Gibson used it in "the Patriot". Not sure that was the first place I heard it.

Mark

 

[the iron horse]

"A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that."

~Shane by Jack Schaefer


My 7th grade Language Art students will be reading this novel
this March.

It's always one of their novels we read.

And we watch the film

 

[Resto Guy]

And the dumbest quote - "It just went off".

 

[mack]

Every gun is always loaded.

Never point a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy.

Keep your finger off the trigger until you are on target.

Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it.


and


There ain't much of nothing that a man can't fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

 

[LeontheProfessional]

Never point a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy.

Most of my guns are pointed at the ceiling at the moment but I really do not wish to destroy the ceiling. So what should I do?

 

[mack]

If it comes to it, be willing to live with replacing a ceiling.

 

[Gungnir]

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

Know thine enemy... I can't honestly believe that she said this, but I wouldn't put it past her.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I’m not going to make very many friends saying this, but it’s about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.

 

[skunkbreeder]

"the mind is the weapon, the gun is a tool" -me

 

[TCB in TN]

Sorry but I have too....................


"I am the only one in this room professional enough.......

 

[LeontheProfessional]

.......in the room that is professional enough, that I know of, to carry a Glock 40.

 

[harmonic]

"Nothing says goodbye like a bullet."

 

[David E]

Little Bill Daggett: Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!

Will Munny: Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.

(thought we might as well get the quote correct)