“Adam grasped the rail as gun by gun the American began to retaliate […] He winced as he felt the iron smashing into the hull or through the rigging overhead.”

— Douglas Reeman

For My Country's Freedom, Cap 11 "Like Father, Like Son"

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British author 1924–2017

Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels

Part IV, CH 6: Chamberlain, p. 365
The Killer Angels (1974)

“A new study by Adam Lankford, of the University of Alabama, which will be presented next week at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association, shows a strong correlation between the availability of guns and the prevalence of gun massacres. With the same certainty that David Hemenway’s work established the link between the number of guns in a society and the number of gun killings, we now know that there is a correlation between the availability of guns and the major public assaults that have been a part of American life since Columbine.”

Adam Gopnik (1956) American journalist

Roanoke and the Value of Guns, The New Yorker (2015)

“Magic bullet: One that wends its way through several bodies, smashing bones on the way, but ends up in pristine condition, conveniently located for police attribution to the gun of choice.”

Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) American journalist

Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 152.

“Sun is one of many US companies that file software patents regularly, the reason we file software patents regularly is the same reason that Americans buy guns. Americans buy guns, because Americans buy guns. American corporations file software patents because American corporations file software patents.”

Simon Phipps computer scientist

Keynote Speech at FOSDEM 2007: Liberating Java http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-Liberating-Java.ogg

“Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Chapter 5 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch05.htm, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)

“A. J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Guns don't kill people – Americans kill people.”

Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist

Michael Moore on The Ed Show, MSNBC, March 22, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVORszwdNA
2012

“Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto III, line 11
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

“If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.”

Chuck Hagel (1946) United States Secretary of Defense

[Andrew, Stephen, http://www.newstatesman.com/200602270021, Deputy Dick: What We Don't Know, New Statesman, 27 February 2006, 2006-10-16]
2006

“Look these bastards in the eyes, and if anyone attacks you, already decide who will be the one to disconnect the railing where you are, and beat the hell out of them, the no-good bastards! And if you don't have a gun, every one of them has one gun, two guns, maybe three guns. In self-defense, if they attack you, take their goddamn guns from them and use their guns on them! In self-defense. Giuliani is known for taking his police and sending them off in riots. If any one of these bastards riots here today, you take their nightstick the way they did brother Abner Louima and ram it up their behind and jam it down their damn throats!”

Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001) American activist

Million Youth March (5 September 1998), quoted in The Village Voice (13 October 1998) "The Hunt for Khallid Abdul Muhammad" by Peter Noel

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