Statement on his reasons for leaving Virginia Military Institute after his freshman year to enlist in the US Marine Corps (1918), as quoted in Fox Valley Veterans : A Salute to Hometown Heroism (2008) by George Rawlinson, p. 230
Source: Chesty Puller http://www.polaris.net/~jrube/chestpul.htm
“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”
“I know what I want, and where to go.”
Quoted in Salazar: biographical study - page 339; of Franco Nogueira - Published by Atlantis Publishing, 1977
“I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.”
2002-02-01
The Wondiferous Wizard of Words
Reader's Digest
Rudolph
Chelminski
Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control! If you're going to own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you're doing with it. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.
So I support waiting periods and training requirements for gun ownership, and I like the idea that it shouldn't be incredibly easy to get guns. I support the right to carry concealed weapons, but I think people who want a concealed-weapons permit need to pass a training and safety course. The Constitution calls for a "well-regulated militia." In other words, you need to know how to use your weapon, and practice with it.
Where I draw the line is at gun registration. A law that says that everybody who owns a gun has to be on record is too easy to abuse.
