“I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.”

— Harry Truman

Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)

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American politician, 33rd president of the United States (i… 1884–1972

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Awakening / The Struggle

“Guns are not only for soldiers. Every person can own a gun. If they shoot, you shoot back.”

Jean Kambanda (1955) Rwandan politician

Translated from Rwanda-Rundi
PBS Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/etc/script.html. Transcript.

“Theyʹre shooting at us,ʺ I said incredulously. ʺTheyʹre actually shooting at us!”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back.”

Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator

"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?

“I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot.”

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter

Cahiers du Cinema (1960)
Context: I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let me thoughts wander freely.