- Nov 07, 2020
Gun Quotes
On family, danger, and a debate that never quite settles.
One quote recalls a son asking for a gun for Christmas and a parent deciding it was finally time, while another reflects on relatives in law enforcement and the hard choices that job can involve. Read more in our Danger quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.
- Firearms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners will not prevent a deranged individual or criminal from obtaining and misusing firearms to commit violence.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one time I shot a gun, the feelings I felt, I was guilty for feeling them. There is an exhilaration and a glamour, and I felt awful for feeling that.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
- Disarmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.
- Dealers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that the crime committed by people with guns by criminals, they get the guns by flouting the law to begin with. They don't go to gun shows.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020