#gun

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#begun #ends #shame #whatever

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#bills #choices #cops #family #get

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#begun #coherent #conducting #declared #government

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#against #assault #asset #been #essential

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment. ↗

— David Soul

#anger #arrested #awful #begun #called

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#control #dent #facts #gun #gun control

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#countries #data #gun #gun control #laws

The gun went off accidentally. ↗

— Phil Spector

#gun #off #went

Let's create a regime that makes sale of bullets to anybody not licensed to carry a gun illegal, makes resale illegal, micro-stamps bullets so they can be traced. No Second Amendment issues here. This would have a remarkable impact on both violence and the capacity to solve shooting crimes. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#anybody #both #bullets #capacity #carry

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#death #delay #gun #gun control #guns