“A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.”

“Seriously if I had a gun I would have shot the plane down.”

Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

“Cheaters, I thought.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

“i will live by the gun and die by the gun”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“My father often told me, “It is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.” I urge readers to use less than lethal means when safe and practicable, but at times there is not a satisfactory substitute for well-aimed lead going down range at high velocity.”

James Wesley Rawles (1960) Survivalist-fiction author and blogger

“Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy.”

Tzvetan Todorov (1939–2017) Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist

“The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said…. Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Stone Gods

“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States