“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
“My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.” IfsMenLinesMilitaryFrontsGunTownsHeavyBuriedFiringHeadquarters Author:Gordon Bennett
“You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensSaidJobsCommunityChristianityGoneGunTownsTradeClintonIslamBitterAdministrationFrustrationImmigrantsSentimentsSurprisingReplacedSmall TownHusseinClingingPennsylvaniaMind BlowingMidwestAntipathyAnti ReligionChristianity And IslamRural AmericaBlowing It Author:Barack Obama
“I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.” PeopleKnowsMightListeningGunCriticismTownsPraiseAddCandidatesSmall Town Author:Sarah Palin
“Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!” SleepBrainGunTownsBig Sleep Author:Humphrey Bogart