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"My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead."
"In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way."
"I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime."
"I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America."
"There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also true that liberals who don't want guns are puny by and large. They're not risking anything, all they're doing is saying they don't like something. Liberals are quick to say this should happen and this should not happen, but they don't do anything about it much."
"Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws."
"I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it."
"Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection."
"We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame."
"Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms."
"When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law."
"Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do."
"It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns."
"I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door."
"The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker"
"I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win."
"If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?"
"The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together"
"Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
"An armed man need not fight."
