I don't get debate agains guns at all. Because we have it after every mass shooting. And now a terror attack. And the proposals that are talked about almost always have nothing to do with this specific event.
I don't care much about the outcome. I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think that's in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That'll never happen because they've got all the guns now. At least they've got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision.
I'm not going to go into Russia and tell [Vladimir Putin] to go to hell and things like that. That's not the way things are done. You chip away at something, and you hope there will be dialogue and that the situation can get better. You don't just go in there with guns blazing and say, 'Well, to hell with you. ' Because they're going to say, 'To hell with you, and get out of the country. '
The fundamental truth is that the guys with the guns matter more than most.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.
I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not. . . the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. . . our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!
when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.
The Democrats really are not interested in keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists. They're interested in keeping you from being able to get guns.
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the past 150 years of warfare are totally unprecedented in that we introduced a breathtakingly inefficient technology: guns. In the First World War, and this is not an exaggeration, it took 10,000 rounds of ammunition to kill one person. Any given shot had a one in 10,000 probability of ending someone's life.
I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N. W. A. push shuffle and anything will come on.
Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!
Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up. . . Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.
[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.
If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns
My guess [is]. . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.