Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge. – David Ignatius
If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. – Michael D. Barnes
But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA. – Michael D. Barnes
Say you can’t put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you’re not flexible at all. We’ll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that. – Chad Stahelski
One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun. – Niger Innis
If you get to the point in your career where you’re running with a gun – I’ve yet to run with a gun. I’ve stood still with a gun, and I’ve walked with a gun, but I’ve never run with a gun. Running with a gun, to me, that’s when you know you’ve really made it. – David Costabile
There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it. – Mike Quigley
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up. – Michael Nutter
Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried – unless it is committed by an ‘aggrieved’ victim against what they consider a corrupt institution. – Gary Bauer
Non-crazy gun advocates – the ones who aren’t stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion – don’t like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it’ll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market. – Gail Collins
It’s a complicated issue, and you can’t boil it down in a tweet… two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate… The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals. – Dan Carter
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it’s empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain. – Dan Quisenberry
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. – P. G. Wodehouse
I’d like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I’ll go with him. I can’t think of anything better than to die in place ‘s just beginning their lives. – F. Murray Abraham
I’m a registered, vetted gun owner, but that’s because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere. – Naomi Judd
I wasn’t driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window. – Coolio
Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it. – Elizabeth Esty
If you don’t have the smoking gun, then it’s pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up. – David Frost
I really want to be part of things from the ground up wherever possible. Not to say that I’m not open to being a gun for hire – I am, absolutely – but I really enjoy developing. – Michelle MacLaren
If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I’m firing a gun and helicopters are coming down. – Emmanuel Jal
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. – Dean Norris
I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for. – Foster Friess
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. – P. J. O’Rourke