“I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.” KnowsI CanMatterUseWalksKnow HowMilitaryAmountWeaponsGunTownsIraqStoresGradesAfghanistanShockedMarineRiflesCaliberShotgunsSnipers Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.” IfsMenTryingStillsReasonOrderHouseRoomsBehindsWindKeysHigherThousandTenGunTownsSuperiorsWeatherLockedPrudenceCasualProceedingDischargeHaresConjectureMoors Book:Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers
“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
“You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.” BoysForeverFiguresGunTownsGoldenThere Comes A TimeGolden Boy Author:George Carlin
“There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.” YearsAmericaGunShotsTownsPlentyDaddy Author:Geraldo Rivera
“Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.” NeedsChildrenSometimesMatterGunEmpowermentTownsFolksProtectionMinoritiesRoughCopPowerless Author:Maya Angelou
“[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.” LooksHomeLostTakenGunTownsMethodPhotographFlightShopsWeekendInvestigationTicketsSmall TownMartiansMemphisHaphazardThoroughness Author:Geoff Dyer
“I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do these teach-ins on the internet, live and split screen, and have real in-depth debate between people that are on the "other" side of issues - nuclear, gun control, whatever. We could really be having a much more democratically involved and exciting debate with people emailing their questions and having a virtual town meeting.” PeopleWarRealSidesTeachIssuesInternetInvolvedGunExcitingTownsMeetingsDepthScreensNuclearDebateSplitsGun ControlRevival Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Do y’all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the biggest gun store in town? Of course I got plenty. I got enough Tasers to light up New York City AND Boston just for giggles. (Bubba)” KindDoeEnoughLightCoursesCitiesNew YorkBearsGunTownsStoresPlentyNew York CityBostonLight UpGiggleBubbaTasers Book:Chronicles of Nick Source: Chronicles of Nick
“That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'” PeopleDemocracyHeardTerribleGunTownsMeetingsCombinationHallsNutsGun ControlOld PeopleDemocracies HaveAmerican DemocracyBingoAk 47 Author:Bill Maher