Quotes about handgun

A collection of quotes on the topic of handgun, gun, time, rifle.

Quotes about handgun

“I walked into the range, rented a handgun from the ugly old redneck cashier, and started to practice shooting at paper targets. As I fired my first few rounds, I felt so sick to the stomach. I questioned my whole life, and I looked at the gun in front of me and asked myself “What am I doing here? How could things have led to this?” I couldn’t believe my life was actually turning out this way. There I was, practicing shooting with real guns because I had a plan to carry out a massacre. Why did things have to be this way, I silently questioned myself as I looked at the handgun I was holding in front of me. I paid my fee and left the range within minutes, feeling as if I was going to be sick.”

Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer

My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Building to Violence

Life , Way , Feeling , Question

“My first act of preparation was the purchase my first handgun. I did this quickly and hastily, at a local gun shop called Goleta Gun and Supply. I had already done some research on handguns, and I decided to purchase the Glock 34 semiautomatic pistol, an efficient and highly accurate weapon. I signed all of the papers and was told that my pickup day was in mid-December. That fell in nicely, because that was when I was planning on staying in Santa Barbara till. After I picked up the handgun, I brought it back to my room and felt a new sense of power. I was now armed. Who’s the alpha male now, bitches?”

Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer

My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Building to Violence

Sense , Bitch

“The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Democracy

“I needed two working handguns at the same time, as that was how I planned to commit suicide; with two simultaneous shots to the head.”

Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer

My Twisted World (2014), Final Days

Suicide , Time

“Tact comes as naturally to full-bore handguns as, say, ice-skating to African elephants, but there comes a time when an exceptional individual is prepared to stand up and break the mould.”

Tom Holt (1961) British writer

My Hero (1996)

Nature , Time
Peter Rhee photo

“It’s a perfect killing machine…A handgun [wound] is simply a stabbing with a bullet. It goes in like a nail…[With the high-velocity rounds of the AR-15 style rifle] it's as if you shot somebody with a Coke can.”

Peter Rhee (1961) American surgeon

[February 22, 2018, All-American Killer: How the AR-15 Became Mass Shooters’ Weapon of Choice, w:Tim Dickinson, Tim, Dickinson, Rolling Stone, September 4, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/all-american-killer-how-the-ar-15-became-mass-shooters-weapon-of-choice-107819/]

Perfection

“Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon — rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.”

L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer

" The Atlanta Declaration http://www.lneilsmith.org/AtlantaDeclaration.swf," http://www.lneilsmith.org/atlanta.html presented at WeaponsCon I, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1987.

Time
Larry Niven photo

“Cheap superconductors imply maglev trains everywhere. Computers could get big again, with RAM/ROM rising by powers of forty and fifty, if superconductors shed the heat.
Laser handguns against superconducting armor. I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.”

Larry Niven (1938) American writer

Space.com interview (2000)

Love , Training
Amy Poehler photo

“A 14-year-old Indiana girl was arrested after she came to a middle school with a handgun, ammunition, and six small bags of marijuana. Man, Dakota Fanning's growing up so fast!”

Amy Poehler (1971) American actress

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/05/05cupdate.phtml
Weekend Update samples

School , Girl , Marijuana
Joycelyn Elders photo

“Handguns are a public health issue.”

Joycelyn Elders (1933) American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States

[Mimi, Hall, Elders makes assault on guns, USA Today, 9 November 1993, A5ff]

Health
Bill Clinton photo

“You know, we can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles -- it's something I strongly support -- we can't be so fixated on that that we are unable to think about the reality of life that millions of Americans face on streets that are unsafe, under conditions that no other nation—no other nations—has permitted to exist. And at some point, I still hope that the leadership of the National Rifle Association will go back to doing what it did when I was a boy and which made me want to be a lifetime member because they put out valuable information about hunting and marksmanship and safe use of guns. But just to know of the conditions we face today in a lot of our cities and other places in this country and the enormous threat to public safety is amazing.”

Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Adult Learning Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46264, March 1, 1993
1990s

Life , Hope , Boy , Support
Carl Rowan photo

“We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!”

Carl Rowan (1925–2000) American journalist

1981 column.
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"

Law , Home

“People accuse me of being a single-issue writer, a single-issue thinker, and a single-issue voter, but it isn't true. What I've chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably demonstrates what any politician — or political philosophy — is made of, right down to the creamy liquid center.
Make no mistake: all politicians — even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership — hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician — or political philosophy — can be put.
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash — for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything”

L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer

without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.
"Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?" (3 August 1999) http://www.lneilsmith.org/.

Hate , People , World , Idea
Rachel Marsden photo

“The Second Amendment was meant to give citizens the right to bear arms against the government, back when Uncle Sam's toys were as lame as yours… Handguns are sheer lunacy”

Rachel Marsden (1974) journalist

On gun control in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings
Blasting the myths http://www.rachelmarsden.com/columns/vtech.htm By Rachel Marsden. Published Toronto Sun, April 23, 2007

50 Cent photo

“When that window rolls down and that A. K. comes out? You can squeeze your little handgun, until you run out.”

50 Cent (1975) American rapper, actor, businessman, investor and television producer

Heat
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)

Massad Ayoob photo

“Suffice it to say that from the pure "gun" side of it, the Five-seveN is a fascinating design that deserves a place in modern gun collections, and which has written a fascinating and complex chapter in the evolution of modern handguns.”

Massad Ayoob (1948) American firearms and self-defence instructor

Defensive Handguns - The FN Five-seveN (2010)

Massad Ayoob photo

“The Five-seveN has been loved and hated in the years since its introduction. It is one of the most controversial handguns of our time, and was so even before the Fort Hood atrocity.”

Massad Ayoob (1948) American firearms and self-defence instructor

Defensive Handguns - The FN Five-seveN (2010)

Hate , Time , Love