“From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.” WellsMadeHandsKidsAgeKnownBoysCrimeSixGunTownsSurpriseWestSizeSpreadEastPocketsLegendsDaringVirginiaColoradoVestsEast And WestRioWest VirginiaColtsWheeling Author:Billy Joel
“condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.” FourSixGunTwentiesAidsChamberCondomRouletteRussian Roulette Book:Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War Source: Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War
“When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.” ShouldWarMatterAgeGenerationsYouthSixGunPostsThrowingInstructionToysAshesWomanhoodManhoodFutilityDepravityPubertyIdiocyPost WarToy Guns Author:Edna Ferber
“More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.” YearsWarLastsDiesMonthsSixGunDiedSuicideIraqTerroristAfghanistanSix MonthsTerrorist AttacksHomicide Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket.” IfsStillsWholeDealsFiveViolenceSixGunShotsHolesFactorsContributingBucketsPlugsGun Violence Author:Joycelyn Elders
“There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsMeanIdeasSongFightingFoundHouseHeavenHoursWonderfulMinesSixGunExcuseVersionsMake SenseSatTunesDreamerGrammarLiteralKimExcuse MeDyslexiaForteWonderful DayAlways FightingExplain Yourself Author:Kevin Drew
“You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.” PeopleYearsSchoolLawPracticeStreetsMonthsAmountProtectSixTrainingGunEightLawyerInsaneIronCopGoing OutSix Months Author:Colin Kaepernick
“A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.” UseFireSixGunEmptyManagersReliefVillainPitcherShooter Author:Dan Quisenberry
“Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” LittlesMomentsHomeRememberResponsibilityMoralWifeCrimeSixGunMadnessPartnersRoutineInstructionDessertManifestosPartners In CrimeCannolis Author:Sarah Vowell
“Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone to protect them from things that are scarier than the tax man or a knife-wielding stranger. Things that a gun won’t stop. As long as their lives hang in the balance, what’s a little humiliation for me? (Acheron)” PeopleMenNeedsLittlesLongReasonEarthSinBalanceProtectTaxesSixGunStrangerBillionsKnivesTolerateHumiliationResigned Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon