“Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located.”

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

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

“I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.”

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

“I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.”

“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!”

“You might have deemed our long gun-deck
Two hundred feet of hell.”

“I want to go where the guns are!”

“I am that last, that
final thing, the body
in a white sheet listening”