48 Quotes About Firearms
"It’s a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person’s life. More than that, it’s a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crowd in a moment of panic."
"If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is."
"Firearms can’t ensure safety in the society, only open arms can."
"Second, you two idiots are not getting your hands on any firearms, while you are in this group. You’re too unstable and I don’t want to have to shoot you."
"What was my personal Big Bang? Did I get hooked on guns because I discovered I was good at precisely the moment I was experiencing my first feelings of masculine inadequacy? All I knew at the time was that the rifle range replaced the nurse's office as my place of refuge."
"As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace."
"... By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you."