Quotes about gun
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“Have you not subdued the whole district, and could you not have taken a few hundred strong men as slaves to have carried all your superfluous stock and the small ivory, and put your one hundred guns in charge?”

Tippu Tip (1837–1905) Swahili slave trader

Source: Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, Page 175 https://archive.org/details/fiveyearswithco00wardgoog/page/n188/mode/2up

Strong, Men

“If they want to engage in activism or whatever, it’s up to them. If they aren’t afraid of the laws, it’s up to them, and if someone finds a gun and shoot them, or throws grenades at them, well, they have to live with that. If they aren’t afraid, it’s up to them.”

Prayut Chan-o-cha (1954) Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician

Prayuth Can't Guarantee Safety of Academics Who Criticize Him (25 November 2015)
Source: [Prayuth Can't Guarantee Safety of Academics Who Criticize Him, http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1448441773, 1 December 2015, Khaosod English, 25 November 2015]

Law

“Carrying a loaded gun into a community 20 miles from your home and shooting unarmed citizens is fundamentally wrong.”

Kyle Rittenhouse (2003) former suspect in the killing of two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Source: 19 November 2021 tweet https://twitter.com/GovPritzker/status/1461802665986465797 by Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker

Home, Communication

“What are you doing? Take back the Senate!
You’ve got guns. Use them. We give you guns for a reason, use them.
Lethal force should have been used.
How come you didn’t protect us? It’s doing your job.”

Lindsey Graham (1955) United States Senator from South Carolina

Source: 6 January 2021, reported 1 November 2021 by Joseph Choi of "The Hill" here https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/579453-graham-told-officers-on-jan-6-to-use-their-guns-on-rioters-report <br class="br">Context: despite what Graham said, lethal force WAS used, as Ashli Babbitt was shot to death

“Changin' laws an' legislatures ain't, as fur as I can see,
Goin' to make this world much better, unless somehow we can
Find a way to make a better an' a finer sort o' man.
The trouble ain't with statutes or with systems—not at all;
It's with humans jus' like we [are] an' their petty ways an' small.
We could stop our writin' law-books an' our regulatin' rules
If a better sort of manhood was the product of our schools.
For the things that we air needin' isn't writin' from a pen
Or bigger guns to shoot with, but a bigger type of men.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: All That Matters (1922), p.57 - The Need, from stanzas 1 (part) and 2.

Men, Books, World, School

“They say music can alter moods and talk to you
Well, can it load a gun up for you and cock it too?
If it can, then the next time you assault a dude
Just tell the judge that it was my fault, and I'll get sued”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Sing For The Moment"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)

Mood, Time, Music

“Entertainment is changin', intertwinin' with gangsters
In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum
Holy or unholy, only have one homie
Only this gun, lonely ‘cause don't anyone know me”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Sing For The Moment"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)

“They took away my right to bear arms
What I'm 'posed to fight with, bare palms?
Yeah right, they're comin' with bombs, I'm comin' with flare guns”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"We As Americans" (2004)
2000s

Fight

“As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, May 2022, Remarks on the School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas (24 May 2022)

God

“So what use are we? Burnside hopes to die exhausted in a cathouse, with the sweet-sweet taste of bourbon on his tongue. My own ambition is less raunchy. I want, at age ninety, to be gunned down while storming the Congress.”

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 142

Hope, Age

“I saw old-fashioned cities, quiet streets, small shops, colorful flags and ornaments and decorations—life before machine guns, before communism and capitalism and the ambitions of generals.”

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 138

Communication, Fashion, Color, Life

“A gun in the hand is worth a corpse in the Promised Land.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)

“You lie so well
I could never even tell
what were facts in your artful rearranging But I came back for more
and you laughed in my face and you rubbed it in
cause I’m a Labrador
and I run
when the gun
drops the dove again”

Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)

"Labrador" · Video (a shot for shot recreation of scenarios from her first hit video with 'Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM <br class="br">Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

Art, Lie

“A common thief with a gun in his hand isn’t half as dangerous as an engineer with a stick of dynamite.”

James Blish book Black Easter

Source: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 12 (p. 110)

“What’s happened to us that we take killings for granted among our children? Don’t give me that hogwash about students at college having to be treated as adults—there’s nothing adult about playing with guns and grenades!”

John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit

Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 78, “No, Of Course Logorrhea Isn’t What Happens When You Break a Log-Jam But the Result Is Pretty Much the Same for Anyone Who’s in the Way ” (p. 282)

Children

“This guy can change the face of what we're dealing with, with regard to guns, assault weapons, with regard to dealing with climate change. And I'm just warning Amy: If I win, I'm coming for him.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2020, March 2020

Guy, Change