Firearms Quotes

“The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.”
― levitt, steven, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?”
― Steven Wright

“Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.”
― Tim Dorsey, Atomic Lobster

“If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.”
― Dan Rather

“Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner. This is the smallest caliber pistol cartridge made; but it is also one of the most accurate and easy to hit with, since the pistol has no recoil. I have killed many horses with it, cripples and bear baits, with a single shot, and what will kill a horse will kill a man. I have hit six dueling silhouettes in the head with it at regulation distance in five seconds. It was this type of pistol that Millen boys’ colleague, Abe Faber, did all his killings with. Yet this same pistol bullet fired at point blank range will not dent a grizzly’s skull, and to shoot a grizzly with a .22 caliber pistol would simply be one way of committing suicide”
― Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway on Hunting

“Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Dreadful Lemon Sky

“A civilian has no more rights to bear arms, than the state has to bear nuclear weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“I like to load up on mescaline and turn my amplifier up to 110 decibels for a taste
of "White Rabbit" while the sun comes up on the snow-peaks along the Continental Divide.
Which is not entirely the point. The world is full of places where a man can run wild on
drugs and loud music and firepower -- but not for long.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I like to load up on mescaline and turn my amplifier up to 110 decibels for a taste of "White Rabbit" while the sun comes up on the snow-peaks along the Continental Divide.
Which is not entirely the point.
The world is full of places where a man can run wild on drugs and loud music and firepower -- but not for long.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“One gun has more power to take life than a hundred surgeons have to preserve it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“There is much tradition and mystique in the bequest of personal weapons to a surviving comrade in arms. It has to do with a continuation of values past individual mortality. People living in a time made safe for them by others may find this difficult to understand.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“What was my personal Big Bang? Did I get hooked on guns because I discovered I was good at precisely the moment I was experiencing my first feelings of masculine inadequacy? All I knew at the time was that the rifle range replaced the nurse's office as my place of refuge.”
― Dan Baum, Gun Guys: A Road Trip

“More dangerous than a terrorist with a gun, is a civilian with a gun.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Gun-Fetish (The Sonnet)

When I was in my teenage years,
I believed, having a gun would be so cool.
Then I grew up and it occurred to me,
Firearm fetish is but hysteria of the fool.
Guns don't make the society safe,
Any more than nukes ensure world peace.
Civilians carrying personal firearm,
Are but rabid dogs without a leash.
If you are worried about self-defense,
Daily practice some form of martial arts.
Your gun is not only a threat to you,
It is also a threat to your loved ones.
So I beg you my responsible civilian sibling,
Give up your gun and uphold peacemaking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Civilians carrying personal firearm, are but rabid dogs without a leash.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Firearm fetish is but hysteria of the fool.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Guns don't make the society safe, any more than nukes ensure world peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“I hate guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“Carry goodness, not guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Guns can be a strength in the hands of trained law enforcement officials and soldiers with character, but in the hands of civilians they are not just weakness, but a sickness. Without a trained host with character, a gun acts like a parasite, it not only makes the host sick both mentally and physically, but more importantly it sickens an entire society. Let me put this in perspective. In the hands of a civilian, snake venom is poison, in the hands of a scientist, it is medicine. So to put it in a nutshell - carry goodness, not guns. Civilization will never see the sun till the civilians reject their gun.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Society that confuses guns with gallantry, has no idea what gallantry is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“It is important to realize in the USA that ‘reaching for an object’ in your car may get you legally killed by the police.”
― Steven Magee

“Soldiers carrying guns is part of a bigger problem, but when civilians carry guns, civilians are the problem.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. ”
― Thomas Jefferson

“We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Guns are just viagra for the impotent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Sometimes the universe explodes out of my muzzle.”
― Dark Night Beacon