"Let's Make America a 'Sad-Free Zone'!" (18 April 2007).
2007
Context: Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.
From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?
“He can't even shoot straight.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
On his son Yakov’s suicide attempt, as quoted in Encyclopedia of Useless Information (2007) by William Harston
Contemporary witnesses
“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won’t shoot your foot off.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)
Source: Miles in Love
“I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)
“Cupid is fat and slow and can't hit moving targets.”
Donald Miller (1971) American writer
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“But if you shoot at everyone you see,
Can't be my friend 'cause you might shoot at me.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
When a Kid Goes Bad
Lyrics, The Last DJ (2002)
