“Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.”

Letter quoted in "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" (2006) by Julie Phillips

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American science fiction writer 1915–1987

Jean Kambanda (1955) Rwandan politician

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

“We are going to shoot them, they are going to run; We are going to shoot them, with the machine gun; They are going to run. You are a white man – We are going to hit them – and you are going to run! Shoot the Boer! We are going to hit them – they are going to run! The Cabinet will shoot them with the machine gun! The Cabinet will shoot them with the machine gun! Shoot the Boer!”

Jacob Zuma (1942) 4th President of South Africa

Singing to supporters at ANC celebrations in Bloemfontein on 8 January 2012, Is Jan van Riebeeck really the cause of all SA's misfortunes? http://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/is-jan-van-riebeeck-really-the-cause-of-all-sas-mi, Dave Steward (16 January 2015) <br class="br"> Jacob Zuma sings kill the Boer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb3MLHblnbQ, youtube

“I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"Love and Marriage"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Tommy, Stanza 5.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“I'm too drunk to taste this chicken”

Harland Sanders (1890–1980) American entrepreneur and businessman

“He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.”

William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer

I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
Grand Street, no. 37 & The War Universe (1992)

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Adventures of Sally

Source: The Adventures of Sally (1922)

“Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.”

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