This file includes guns and gun rights. Also see Patriotism and Politics, Law Enforcement, and the Hunting file (includes a gun song list).

Guns

Page Toppers

• $2 Pistol
• Beat You to the Draw
• Bullseye
• Faster Gun
• Fire When Ready
• Gun Show
• Gunslinger
• If I Had a Great Long Pistol
• Loaded Gun
• On Target
• Pistol-Packin' Mama
• Quick Draw
• Smoking Gun
• Straight-Shootin' Woman
• Target Practice
• Warning Shot

Quotes

• A .32 in the pocket beats a .45 at home in the sock drawer.
• A Colt 45 always beats 4 aces.
• The average response time of a 911 call is 13 minutes, the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
• Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the whole world.
• 'Gun control' means being able to hit your target.
• I know how to load more than a washer and dryer.
• I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. (Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News)
• I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American. (George Carlin)
• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, riddle them with bullets.
• The original point and click interface was a Smith & . . . Wesson.
• A rubber-band pistol was confiscated in algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion in your walks. (Thomas Jefferson)
• To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
• The West wasn't won with a registered gun.
• When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. (Luke 11:21)

Gun Rights

Quotes

• After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. (William Burroughs)
• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? (Patrick Henry)
• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. (Robert A. Heinlein)
• Ban Guns: Make the streets safe for a government takeover.
• Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection--utopian lamentations notwithstanding. (Edgar A. Suter, MD)
• The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. (Samuel Adams, 1788)
• Don't call them ‘illegal firearms'. Call them ‘undocumented weapons' and let them live in sanctuary homes.
• Expecting a car-jacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. (Joseph T. Chew)
• The government can't keep drugs off the street, out of schools, or even out of federal prisons, but they expect us to believe that if we give up our right to bear arms, they can protect us and keep guns out of the hands of criminals. No thanks - I refuse to be a victim.
• Guns have only two enemies - rust and politicians.
• I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials. (George Mason)
• I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American. (George Carlin)
• I was going to turn all my guns over to the government, but I did a background check and none of them were mentally stable.
• If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about?
• It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. (Thomas Paine)
• Know guns, Know peace. No guns, no peace.
• Liberals think conservatives are violent because we own guns. But when was the last time you saw a group of conservatives block a freeway, turn over police cars, riot, loot, throw Molotov cocktails, and burn buildings?
• Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets . . . You may get killed with your own gun, but he'll have to beat you to death with it, cause it'll be empty.
• Making good people helpless will not make bad people harmless. (NRA)
• A man with a gun is a citizen...a man without a gun is a subject.
• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. (Adolph Hitler)
• The only reason after 243 years the government wants to disarm us, is they intend to do something we would shoot them for.
• Remember, 3,000 people died on 9-11 and not one shot was fired. It's not a gun issue it's a hate issue.
• The second amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, there would have been wording such as 'the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' (Ken Konecki, 1992)
• Sign in yard: My next-door neighbor wants to ban all guns! Their house is not armed like mine is. If you are here to rob someone, I promise to respect my neighbor's opinions and not to use my guns to protect them.
• The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. (Thomas Jefferson)
• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (John F. Kennedy)
• To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them... (Richard Henry Lee)
• A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. (U. S. Constitution, Second Amendment)
• You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive!
• We're not seeing reasons for gun control; we're seeing reasons to carry.
• Why are armed citizens standing guard over their property called ‘vigilantes' but rioting anarchists called ‘peaceful protestors'?

Welcome to Kansas

Attention criminals and terrorists, you are now entering the state of Kansas. Over a million Kansas residents own guns. Our state does not require a permit to carry a handgun. We are armed and prepared to defend ourselves against all acts of criminal violence. You have been warned. However, California, New York, and Illinois have disarmed their citizens for your convenience!

Alarming Trend

Number of physicians in the US: 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000
Accidental deaths per physicians: 0.171

Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000
Number of accidental gun deaths per year: 1,500
Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one doctor. Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand.
Remember: Guns don't kill people, doctors do!