“History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.” YearsLongTodaySkyWasteAchievementPagesGunAngelTongueSavedExilePrintedBruised Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.” PeopleLittlesUseTodayRightsTroubleEffectsGunCriminalsGun ControlSubsidies Author:Sheldon Richman
“Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.” BigsTodayWantedPlayerGunCharismatic Author:Gene Littler
“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.” PeopleIfsWantLooksCountryPlayTodayLyingFightingWinningSimpleEffortHalfMillionsImpossibleExerciseBattleMajorsPercentGunTasksResponsibleCommittedHouseholdOwnershipItemsRestrictionUphill BattlesGun Ownership Author:Dave Kopel
“The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.” PeopleKnowsGivingYearsSelfFactsTodayFightingEvilForceSidesRolesGiving UpGunAngelYears AgoWarmRighteousGun ControlFellowshipMundaneLoftyProhibitionLives Of OthersCrusadesSelf RighteousKnow It AllFighting OnZealotry Author:Thomas Sowell
“Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.” IfsBelieveEndsTodayCultureI BelieveBoysAliveCarGunArgumentUltimateTragedySafetyCurrentsStoresLoudFlawsAvoidingTeenageDisputesConvenienceConfrontationLive For TodayBaitHandgunsLoud MusicGun Culture Author:Bob Costas
“When I came here in 1999, all one could hear was the sound of the guns as guns were booming all around. Today I am only hearing clapping of hands.” HandsTodayMotivationSoundGunIndiaHearingClapping Author:Narendra Modi
“We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.” FirstsProblemTodayLawCausesLinesViolenceYouthProduceMoralityBehaviorGunDefenseYesterdayRealizationAcknowledgeCivilizedRegulationGun ViolenceCivilized SocietyUncivilized Author:Walter E. Williams
“It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's putatively socialist wing. It was the grandfathers and mothers of the "enlightened public" of today's Israel who literally drove tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians into the sea in 1947-48 all along the Mediterranean coast, or who marched them at gunpoint to Ramallah.” TodayMotherSeaGunWingsIsraelLegacyEnlightenedGrandfatherPalestinianSocialistCoastIndigenousRight WingZionismSettlers Author:Max Blumenthal
“Here they are today, the Democrats; they're making this big deal about how this woman [Hillary Clinton] has overcome all of this discrimination. She has overcome the biggest guns of opposition that have been arrayed against her!” Has BeensBigsTodayDealsGunOvercomingClintonDemocratDiscriminationOppositionBig Deal Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.” ProblemBigsTodayViolenceSeeingGunPlagueGun ViolenceContributors Author:Hillary Clinton
“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.” ChildrenCountryTodayParentMillionsEnvironmentPeriodsDrugGunAccidentsAlcoholOwnersGun ControlMisuseUndisciplinedGun OwnersGun SafetyShooting GunsBad Parent Author:Ted Nugent
“I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'” UseTodayGirlGoneGunQueens Author:Zoe Saldana
“I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what with being locked up in a refrigerator, I plumb forgot what was in here to start with. But being that this is a 45 magnum, the most powerful handgun in existence, and it could blow your head clean off, you just got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?" Christ," Spiro whispered. "She thinks she's f**king Clint Eastwood.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsWellsSaidTodayAsksChristPowerfulExistenceSilenceKingsLuckyGunCleanBlowConfusionMost PowerfulPunkLockedBulletsGrandmaRefrigeratorsLocked UpHandguns Author:Janet Evanovich
“maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.” IfsMenTryingCountryHardLightTodayYoungWalksStepsPathOur LivesSkyMissingIgnoranceCoupleGunArgumentBusyRememberedYoung ManSilverWhat IfResolveWakingYellowCandleGlowingSwearingDiscsOverlappingBlackbirdsSapphires Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.” ImportantTodayLeftCenturyGunBulletsClergyEducation And Knowledge Book:The Wasted Vigil Source: The Wasted Vigil
“Cheyenne snatched back her phone. "Someone took her brave pills today." "And washed them down with stupid juice," Casper added, cocking his gun.” TodayStupidGunBravePhonesPillsJuiceCasperCheyenne Book:The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night Source: The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.” NeedsTodayPurposeNationsFreedomLibertySacrificeWillingArmsCitizensGunRegardPreparedLibertarianDaily LifeLibertarianismPreservationFreedom And LibertyMiscellaneousSecond AmendmentFirearmsRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsLimiting GovernmentFounding Fathers GunAmendment 19Minutemen Author:John F. Kennedy
“If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].” IfsTodayGroupsDangerPicksGunAlcoholGun ControlSelectTobaccoFascistsFirearmsAmerican Society Author:John Dingell
“The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.” IfsStillsProblemWould BeTodayAcceptingStreetsMediaCrimeMajorsGunConcernConnectionsCriminalsGun ControlFree SocietyAccepting The Truth Author:Jeff Cooper
“Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.” PeopleTodayDesireLosesAbilityRightsGunBillsCourtSecurePreservesPrincipalGun ControlBill Of RightsVigilant Author:Earl Warren
“I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.” ThinkingAgeTodayEvilRightsCenturyGunAgreeBillsGun ControlBill Of Rights18th Century Author:Hugo Black
“Thousands of dead fish have now washed up on shore along the coast of South Carolina. Today the NRA said that this wouldn't have happened if those fish had guns.” IfsSaidTodayHappenedGunSouthFishesShoreGun ControlCoastCarolinaSouth CarolinaNra Author:Jay Leno