Guns Quotes
The page has a mixed set of names: Krist Novoselic, Thomas Jefferson, 50 Cent, Ida B. Wells and the legal scholar Adam Winkler. The sourced lines include Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times (1892), on the freedman’s need for more than freedom, and Emerson’s 1847 poem about naming all the birds without a gun.
Three popular lines carry flags. The statement about not allowing subject races to possess arms, credited to Hitler, is disputed. The Massachusetts amendment credited to Samuel Adams is disputed, and the notes show it differs from what is documented in the state convention of 6 February 1788. A passage on arms discouraging and keeping the peace, credited to Thomas Paine, is marked misattributed.
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Could you really feel the hand of destiny while pointing a Glock?
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands].
I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.
It's not gun registration that produces gun confiscation and genocide; it's people who do.
As long as I have a pen in my hand and a revolver in my pocket, I fear no one.
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
There's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.