Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.
Let bygones be bygones. . . but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.
By journalistic custom and D. C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.
I would have turned any offer down, if it had turned into a thriller. I would have seen no point in a thriller here. I don't need to entertain people, on top of what we were doing. It's not a question of whether he did it or not. I would have thought that was banal and uninteresting, and I wouldn't care. And it could have also turned into a shoot-out because there were a lot of guns in the film.
Cop families have guns in their houses.
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part. . . Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed!. . . We pay the first cost on all human life.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.
We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.
I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.
The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.
Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980.
I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.
I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.
Silent guns have virtue.
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home.