I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they’d shoot me. – Tracy Chapman
I’d take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I’d step in front of you even though I’ve never met you. – Steve Wilkos
If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you’re playing a first-person shooter. – Zachary Levi
I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane’s Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun. – Taye Diggs
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. – Yasser Arafat
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. – Stephen Daldry
A car is a killing machine. It’s like waving a loaded gun. People don’t realise how dangerous they are. – Victoria Pendleton
I don’t sit under the tattoo gun unless I’m sold on it completely and it will define me as a person. – Yelawolf
When the term ‘machine gun’ enters common parlance, the word ‘machine’ becomes much more sinister. – Scott Westerfeld
I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they’re in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don’t have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun. – Wesley Snipes
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I’d never held one before and I’m physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff. – Yvonne Strahovski
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. – Steven Pinker
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil. – Taya Kyle
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado’s a redneck with a gun and all this stuff. – Trey Parker
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. – Ted Nugent
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn’t grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California. – Susan Straight
I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting. – William Sadler
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery. – Toussaint Louverture
If there’s one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence. – William Bratton
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I’d pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. – W. H. Auden
My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There’s a family dynamic in making a television show that you don’t get on a movie, where you’re a hired gun for a few months. – Ted Danson
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. – Thomas Carlyle
As soon as you define what an assault weapon is, you know, you can’t sell a weapon, and here’s how we describe it, gun manufacturers just make one adjustment or two, and they say, ‘See, this isn’t subject to the limitation.’ – Tim Kaine
At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now, my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum – that gun weighed more than I did! – Susana Martinez
I feel like I’ve got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety. – Tim Walz