Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 7, p. 178 : exchange between 'Lucky Ned Pepper' and 'Mattie Ross'
“Nice girls don’t carry guns.”
Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 19 (p. 325)
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“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
Cited in: Jerry White, Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville https://books.google.nl/books?id=QpXZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT136&dq=%22All+you+need+for+a+movie+is+a+gun+and+a+girl%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB-5vnrJ_LAhXCLQ8KHZ1yCTgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22All%20you%20need%20for%20a%20movie%20is%20a%20gun%20and%20a%20girl%22&f=false, 2013
Source: Journal entry, May 16, 1991.

On Heath High School shooting where a teenaged gunman killed 3 students at a prayer meeting at the school, on Politically Incorrect (18 December 1997).
1980s-90s

The Merchants of Venus (p. 22)
Platinum Pohl (2005)
“You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.”
Source: Empowerment Radio with Tunde Obazee KNON 89.3 FM Dallas, Tx - Live Broadcast Oct. 23, 2006
“The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Quoted in MTV Justin Bieber: "Girls Look Better Without Make-Up" http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/justin-bieber/202740-justin-bieber, April 2010

“Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.”
Source: Playing with Fire