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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

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

Quotes by Stephen Daldry

Growing Up
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Nov 07, 2020

'Top Gun' was one of my favorite movies growing up.

Quotes by Stephen Colletti

Politics
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Nov 07, 2020

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Quotes by Stendhal

Need
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Nov 07, 2020

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

Quotes by Si Robertson

Community
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Nov 07, 2020

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.

Quotes by Sheila Jackson Lee

Hot
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Nov 07, 2020

In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.

Quotes by Sharon Needles

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

Quotes by Shanola Hampton

People
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Nov 07, 2020

If someone fires a gun in a movie, it should always be a big deal. I don't like movies where someone shoots at someone else but they just run away and manage to dodge the bullet. Or people are all firing at each other continuously for 10 minutes.

Quotes by Shane Black

Deemed
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Nov 07, 2020

It is absolutely absurd that someone who is deemed unsafe to get on an airplane is allowed to buy a gun in America. It's truly absurd.

Quotes by Seth Moulton

Nov 07, 2020

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

Quotes by Serena Williams

Machine
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Nov 07, 2020

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

Nov 07, 2020

In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.

Quotes by Scott Thompson

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

If you can tell me what gun, type of gun, I can possess, then I didn't really get that right to keep and bear arms from God. It was not bequeathed to me; it was not unalienable, right?

Quotes by Scott Pruitt

Nov 07, 2020

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

Quotes by Scott Baio

Nov 07, 2020

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

Quotes by Sarah Vaughan

Time
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Nov 07, 2020

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

Quotes by Sarah Brady

Owners
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

Quotes by Sarah Brady

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

Ever since I was a kid and growing up and watching things like the 'Naked Gun' movies, there was always this stereotype about how Arabs were perceived and portrayed. I've never watched those Arab villains in the movie and felt like that was me.

Quotes by Sami Zayn

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.

Quotes by Ryan Coogler

Nov 07, 2020

If you live in America, you need a gun, and I am not very fast with a gun, so I think I would walk out very quickly.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

Elsewhere the tone turns serious, naming a gun violence epidemic that's shaped a whole generation, alongside a different argument about the internet's role in gun owners organizing around the Second Amendment. Compare these with our Controversy quotes or thoughts on Power.

Gun Quotes

On family, danger, and a debate that never quite settles.

Elsewhere the tone turns serious, naming a gun violence epidemic that's shaped a whole generation, alongside a different argument about the internet's role in gun owners organizing around the Second Amendment. Compare these with our Controversy quotes or thoughts on Power.

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