#gun

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#crime #evidence #guns #i #reduce

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

This is freedom,’ said the instructress, ‘it’s something very wintry, and cannot be borne for long. One must always keep moving, as we are doing here, one must dance in freedom. It is cold and beautiful. Never fall in love with it. That would only make you sad afterwards, for one can only be in the realm of freedom for a moment, no longer. Look how the wonderful track we are floating on is slowly melting away. Now you can watch freedom dying, if you open your eyes… ↗

— Robert Walser

#robert-walser #beauty

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control. ↗

— Nora Dunn

#control #country #gun #i #i think

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#attorney general #carolina #close #general #governor

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#glory #grace #perfected

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. ↗

— Larry Elder

#colonel #control #demands #further #gun

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#begins #begun #difficult #know #less

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#any #arsenals #bombs #cannot #country

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#choose #film #gun #had #head