“If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil.” PeopleIfsI CanGunBlamePencilsMisspelled Words Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.” PeopleThinkingStillsSexViolenceHugeGunUncomfortableShockingGun ViolenceBlockbuster Author:Morgan Saylor
“Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.” PeopleStatesHomeAbleAmericaLawUnitedWatchesUnited StatesGoodnessGunSakeListsTerroristUnited States Of America Author:Hillary Clinton
“We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.” PeopleShouldHandsGun Author:Hillary Clinton
“We have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them.” PeopleGunBad People Author:Donald Trump
“Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!” PeopleBlackGunShotsCracksOfficersBlack PeopleThugAnthemHahaKneelingExpletives Author:Steve Clevenger
“In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' before you do it, but in my case it was a gun."” PeopleSaidGuyCoursesNumbersClassCasesTeachingPaperGunSavedPrisonerPapersDaggersLaura Author:Margaret Atwood
“I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans.” PeopleTurnsWaitingRepublicanGunDustSettling Author:Junot Diaz
“Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.” PeopleWantMeanAbleSupportMembersGunOur FamilyAmendmentsSecond Amendment Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsYearsKindMatterShowsDiesDifferencesGunBackgroundsChecksReformMaking A DifferenceOnlineSensibleAmendmentsComprehensiveSecond AmendmentLoopholesBackground Checks Author:Hillary Clinton
“Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.” PeopleHomeGunAppropriateDozenLoadedToddlerPrecautionLoaded Gun Author:Hillary Clinton
“I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others. So I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.” PeopleWayTryingWantedAcceptingCasesProtectConflictGunCourtStoresAcceptedSavingReasonableAmendmentsRegulationSecond AmendmentColumbiaToddler Author:Hillary Clinton
“I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.” PeopleKnowsShouldBelieveGun Author:Ann Patchett
“We're gonna be in a world of hurt if we don't get it fixed, because there's going to be billions of people out there - they're hungry, they're mad. One thing that they can get their hands on is guns.” PeopleIfsWorldHandsHurtOne ThingGunMadBillionsHungryFixed Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The gun lobby whips up people and makes them believe that President Obama or I are coming for their guns. Well, that's ridiculous. And he's said it, I have said it. But we do want to save lives by keeping a gun from somebody who shouldn't have it.” PeopleWantBelieveWellsSaidPresidentGunRidiculousLive ByPresident ObamaWhipsSave A Life Author:Hillary Clinton
“Gun violence is real. People don't come back.” PeopleRealViolenceGunGun Violence Author:Stevie Wonder
“Obviously you want to be smart enough to take other people's advice and take that into consideration, and obviously try to surround yourself with people that are smarter than you. As far as sticking to your guns, I think there is no better advice than to just find something that you really give a s - about and then go do it.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingTryingEnoughAdviceSmartGunConsiderationSurroundSmarterBeing SmartSurround YourselfSurround Yourself With People Author:Chelsea Handler
“Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.” PeopleProblemStuffCrazyGayGunAddDemocratSpendingAbortionPushingGun ControlDeficitGay MarriageDeficit Spending Author:Collin Peterson
“The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.” PeopleUseAmountGunVersusMillennium Author:Kanye West
“People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.” PeopleIfsNeedsSchoolFilmViolenceGunHip HopEntertainmentHipsHopsFilm School Author:Kanye West
“We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like anyone violent or carrying a gun or anything like that. But I won't know if they disagree with me unless they decide to heckle.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantKindHateCrimeTrumpGunViolentDisagreeSupporterHate CrimeSteroid Author:Jen Kirkman
“I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFeelsYearsChildrenHardDoneFactsSchoolChristianSocialWhiteStudyCrazyConditionsGunMalesWagesGoing CrazySocial Conditions Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindArmsBearsGunShould HaveRight To Bear Arms Author:Jim Jarmusch
“The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where the most innocent lives are always slaughtered. Those squawking the loudest for banning guns from we the people will not get rid of their we-the-people tax-dollar-paid armed security guards.” PeopleCareHateFightingSecurityCrimeTaxesGunPaidDollarsInnocentSavingZoneReducingSave A LifeTax DollarsSecurity GuardsInnocent Life Author:Ted Nugent
“I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A lot of people shouldn't own guns. I should. I have a safety record. Guns are a lot of fun out here.” PeopleWayShouldBelieveFunI BelieveRecordsHugeWeaponsGunSafetyShould I Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoImportantCountryUseLawCommunityResultsViolenceStreetsCitizensGunTraditionIllegalHuntingOwnershipAbidingUsageSportsmanshipHandgunsLaw Abiding CitizenGun Ownership Author:Barack Obama
“We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.” PeopleThinkingGunTraditionThoughtfulReasonableAmendmentsGun ControlSecond Amendment Author:Barack Obama
“In one way, we're on an upward swing, but at the same time there's still a lot of evil that goes on in the world. I think it's definitely heading in a better direction, but it seems to take so long for all the people with the power, who control the negative side of life and all the bad inventions they have like guns and bombs and hate. But there has to be a balance. We've got to all try harder to manifest more love in order to counteract all that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTryingLongStillsSeemsHateOrderEvilSidesGoes OnBalanceGunNegativeHarderInventionOne WayBombsManifestSwingsHeadings Author:George Harrison
“The Democrat Party is in as much trouble as the Republican Party is for different reasons. But if they have to go back to "taxing the rich," if they have to go back to "gun control," it is a sure sign things are in a state of great disarray. In addition, Mrs. Clinton wants to make abortions totally free for people on Medicaid.” PeopleIfsWantDifferentStatesReasonPartyRichTroubleRepublicanGunClintonDemocratAbortionGun ControlRepublican PartyMedicaidDisarray Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.” PeopleIfsYearsChristianLastsChoicesBlackWhiteOne ThingRepublicanGunIndependentDemocratAtheistBuddhistI've LearnedNativeVeganSocialistAsianLecturesLatinoFascistsPro LifeInteractingPro GunThings I've LearnedBlack WhiteAnti Gun Author:Gary Yourofsky
“In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a capitalist society, you've got to expand your market. They were selling guns to the military. That's a pretty limited market. What about all the rest of the people? So what started was all kinds of fantastic stories about Wyatt Earp and the gunmen and the Wild West, how exciting it was to have these guys with guns defending themselves against all sorts of things.” PeopleKindStoriesRememberGuyCenturyMilitaryLateGunExcitingWestSellingAll KindsFantasticCapitalistNineteenth CenturyWild WestGunmen Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.” PeopleThinkingHappensLawCultureFightingLeftTroubleSeriousGunEmbraceTiredGun LawGun CultureTired Of Fighting Author:Irvine Welsh
“America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.” PeopleWantPersonsRunningAmericaYoungStrongPowerfulMillionsStreetsWallGunSafetyEnvironmentalCorporationsVotingMost PowerfulGun ControlWant UClicksLobbyists Author:Patti Smith
“In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.” PeopleIfsLightPoorCitiesDarknessCarHigherGunBiggerFellowsShiningHotelGatesGetting HighDelhiCreviceLice Author:Arundhati Roy
“It became inescapable that as conservatives were wrong about people of color, they were also wrong about women. They were wrong about gay people. The only individual freedoms they seemed to get exercised about were the freedom to make a profit and the freedom to own a gun.” PeopleIndividualColorGayGunProfitGay PeopleIndividual Freedom Author:Steve Erickson
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsTwoCountryStatesTurnsCultureChristUnitedPartyHalfUnited StatesCoupleThousandProtectGunYears AgoThirdsPopulationUsaExpectingThousand YearsGun Culture Author:Noam Chomsky
“How are people who are young and look like Oscar [Grant] portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with [and] they might have formed opinions about.” PeopleThinkingLooksMightYoungGivenCommunityOpinionMediaProtectGunPoliceGrantsOscarsBadgesProtect And Serve Author:Michael B. Jordan
“People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie.” PeopleIfsNeedsGunHip HopEntertainmentHipsHops Author:Kanye West
“As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They're ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantEnoughProblemPastSidesRaceHalfReadyGunIndiaPopulationChinaExperimentsReactionsFasterPerformingDragBoth SidesEnough Is EnoughWorld PopulationChina And India Author:Paul Saffo
“As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsDoneMightYoungGraceImagineCoupleGunFollowingCreditTeenagerYoung WomenMicrophonesGrate Author:Barack Obama
“The way I lived, I grew up in a time where people would take your shoes, they'll take your jacket, they'll take your cheese without a gun. So people would jump on you - this was like fourteen, fifteen years old. So it always taught me that you gotta have your crew, in some ways you gotta move, don't put your self in harm's way, and definitely if you're a street dude and want any kind off credibility, don't put yourself under the mercy of anybody else, or you'll be at their mercy; they can do what they want to do to you.” PeopleIfsWayWantYearsKindSelfMovingCan DoStreetsTaughtGrewGrew UpGunMercyShoesHarmCheeseFifteenCrewCredibilityJacketsFourteenFifteen YearsFifteen Years Old Author:Gucci Mane
“I challenge Hillary Clinton; take away your Secret Service. Take it away now! Take away your Secret Service! Dismiss them! Have no security around you. Have no guns around you, Hillary. I dare you! I dare you! Obama, same thing. Drop your guns, Obama! Take your Secret Service away, Obama. Take it all away! Leave the White House unguarded, Obama. Let everybody know there's no guns on the White House grounds, Obama. You know what would happen in 30 seconds? Both of those people would no longer be on planet Earth.” PeopleKnowsHappensEarthHouseChallengesWhiteSecretSecurityPlanetsGunClintonDareWhite HouseSecondsPlanet EarthSecret Service Author:Matt Drudge
“With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my résumé I did without reading them or knowing what they were. I just said I'd do that because a friend wrote it, directed, produced, acted in it. With directing, I'm sticking to my guns, not that a lot of people are begging me to direct.” PeopleIfsSaidShowsReadingActingKnowingTvsGunDirectTv ShowsBegging Author:Bob Odenkirk
“Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for centuries, by the Mughals, the Russians, their own people, so they have always had to fight for freedom... we cannot take away the context. But they legitimised it by using jihad, a religious sanction, so they could be seen as mujahids, fighting for Allah. And you cannot say there is nothing concrete.” PeopleFightingReligiousViolenceCenturyGunHistoricalDuesLegacyConcreteSanctionsSuppressionDeprivationJihadFighting For Freedom Author:Asghar Ali Engineer
“I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.” PeopleThinkingLossPerspectiveGunMental Health Author:Daayiee Abdullah
“The ghost caliphate will be a virtual organization; it'll be decentralised, with no leadership, and it will just encourage people to keep acting now that the caliphate's gone, that individuals should go do self-starting jihad. Get a gun, get an improvised weapon, take your car, and carry out the jihad.” PeopleIndividualActingCarGunGhostJihad Author:Malcolm Wrightson Nance
“There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also true that liberals who don't want guns are puny by and large. They're not risking anything, all they're doing is saying they don't like something. Liberals are quick to say this should happen and this should not happen, but they don't do anything about it much.” PeopleGun Author:Richard Ford
“We haven't been leading anybody. We've been acquiescing to a bunch of linguini-spined leftists all over the world, at the United Nations, in NATO, wherever it is. The people who don't even pay for their own defense. The people that don't even believe in guns and bullets to protect yourself are the people we have been acquiescing to. And they think this is called leadership. Leadership is sponsoring America's decline. Leadership is administering America's decline. Leadership is admitting that America's superpower status was never deserved or warranted.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveProtectGunUnited NationsSuperpowerNatoProtect Yourself Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The problem is not gun possession; the problem is manufacturing guns - who's making these guns and how they gettin' out on the street? There shouldn't even be guns for us to possess. If there wasn't any, then it wouldn't be a problem. So we need to go to the source of the problem. They're making all these wars so they can make more weapons and sell them, and they wanna kill more people - they need population control,'cause people have to die in order for this world to continue. That's the government's goal right now.” PeopleWorldWarProblemGoalGunPossession Author:Prodigy