- Feet
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- 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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
On healthcare, climate change, nuclear disarmament, gun control and countless other issues, President Obama consistently made difficult choices and put the national interest over his own political interest to do what was right. All the while, he resisted the politics of cynicism in a system that too often encourages it.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020