Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. – Gabrielle Giffords
I’ve never seen ‘The Goonies.’ I’ve never seen ‘Indiana Jones.’ I watched ‘UHF’ over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched ‘Naked Gun,’ ‘UHF,’ and ‘Airplane!’ over and over. – Eric Andre
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up. – Gordon Brown
I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I’d learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you’re in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. – Connie Nielsen
Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time! – Donald Trump Condemning rapper Snoop Dogg for satirical video in which he fired a fake gun at a clown called Ronald Klump.
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist. – Gary Bauer
The truth is that a number of us have been saying for quite some time that it was only a matter of time until someone went to a gun show, bought a military-like semi-automatic assault weapon with a large capacity magazine, and did enormous damage. – David Petraeus
Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction. – Donald Rumsfeld
Long before gun control was touted as ‘common sense’ measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites. – Niger Innis
I don’t run anybody else’s race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race. – Catherine Ndereba
The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers’ license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. – Eliot Spitzer
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. – P. J. O’Rourke
All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. – F. Sionil Jose
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who’s paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We’ve been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won’t insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily. – Michael D. Barnes
As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. – Michael F. Easley
Doesn’t it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there’s no such option for a gun? – Nicholas Kristof
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons. – Gabrielle Giffords
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. – Diane Abbott
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. – Michael Badnarik
Let’s create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes. – Eliot Spitzer
Film’s hard when you don’t have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you’d be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too. – P. J. O’Rourke
I like to stay within the context of the character’s background. If he’s a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun. – Donnie Yen
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ as a dancing Indian. – Casey Nicholaw
In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress. – Gabrielle Giffords
It doesn’t matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets. – Don Lemon
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. – David Mamet