Quotes About Firearm

#1. How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

Luke Scott

#2. Colt makes a heavy firearm." - Virgil Cole

Robert B. Parker

#3. The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

Herb Gray

#4. It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the next state it is totally illegal. There are real problems to that, but as soon as you bring up the subject and say 'gun control,' it sets a red flag.

Joe Perry

#5. An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Mario Benedetti

#6. Protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

Allan Rock

#7. Most firearm-related deaths in America are suicides.

Firmin Debrabander

#8. Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded, keep it close. With a cool head, steady hand, and plenty of ammunition, one human is more than a match for an army of zombies.

Max Brooks

#9. A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

John Abbott

#10. An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

Jeff Cooper

#11. I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

Barack Obama

#12. Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Jeff Miller

#13. If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail. (148)

Don DeLillo

#14. Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#15. No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood.

Brian McGreevy

#16. It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.

Jeff Cooper

#17. I don't know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of facts. Armed citizens deter far more crimes than the police, and far more lives are saved by the intended victim being armed than are lost in firearm accidents.

Paul Craig Roberts

#18. There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Michael D. Barnes

#19. Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder.

Garry McCarthy

#20. We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Paul Broun

#21. Wielding a hammer, however, you're at the very heart of the experience, being flooded with wonderful sensations that simply can't be yours if you use a firearm. Now, you might be asking yourself how I came to discover the splendors of hammer attack. I'll tell you. You won't want to hear it, though.

Richard Laymon

#22. We should be licensing everybody with a gun. I have to have a license for my dog. I have to have a license for my car. If you're going to do my hair later you have to have a license ... We don't require a license to own a firearm?

Michael Moore

#23. Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.

John O'Hara

#24. The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.

Janet Reno

#25. The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

Wayne LaPierre

#26. If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

David Mamet

#27. New Rule: From now on, duct tape must be called what it really is
murder tape. A search of the suspected Craigslist Killer's home yielded a firearm, restraints, and duct tape, or, as we call that here in Hollywood, Phil Spector's earthquake kit.

Bill Maher

#28. There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

Nicolas Cage

#29. There is one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, 'How do we arm the other eleven?'

Yuri Orlov

#30. The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

Tom McClintock

#31. With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana