“That was my goal going into the military, whether it was marine, army or navy, I wanted to be a sniper. I was very comfortable with weapons, I loved to shoot them.”— Chris Kyle, bbc.co.uk
“It is just a matter of time before these three-dimensional printers will be able to replicate an entire gun.”— Steve Israel, wired.com
“Guns don’t kill people. Bullets kill people. Fired from guns, brandished by people, who shoot you by accident or on purpose.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“400,000: Americans who died fighting in World War II. 400,000: Americans who died by household Firearms since 2001.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“His fist is big but my gun's bigger He'll find out when I pull the trigger”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun Wait by the door and light a cigarette If he wants a fight well now he's got one And he ain't seen me crazy yet”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“According to the St. George Register, on a clear night last June, at some time between eleven and half-past, my mom — who isn't anything like this — tiptoed down to the basement of the house I grew up in with a Big Boy .44 Magnum in her hands.”— David Ebershoff, amazon.com
“Tyler get me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I want you to know the 24-hour news cycle moves on — I won’t. This is so important to who we are, what kind of nation we are making for our children and our grandchildren. As President Obama said yesterday, and as we all know in our hearts to be true: We are better than this. And if we push hard eno…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Let’s ask ourselves, what can I do? What can I personally do to stop violence and promote justice? How can I show that your life matters to me? That I have a stake in your safety and wellbeing?”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“I know that, just by saying all these things together, I may upset some people. I’m talking about criminal justice reform the day after a horrific attack on police officers. I’m talking about courageous, honorable police officers just a few days after officer-involved killings in Louisiana and Minne…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Gun violence is ripping apart people’s lives. They’re trying to tell us. And we need to listen.”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“For now, let’s focus on what we already know — deep in our hearts. We know there is something wrong with our country. There is too much violence, too much hate, too much senseless killing, too many people dead who shouldn’t be. And we know there is clear evidence that African Americans are much more…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect: if liberals at least acknowledged that the recreational hunter feels the same way about his gun as they feel about their library books, and if conservatives recognized that most women…”— Barack Obama, amazon.com
“Georgia is home to the highest number of toddler shootings, with at least eight incidents since January 2015. Texas and Missouri are tied for second place with seven shootings each, while Florida and Michigan are tied for fourth, with six shootings apiece.”— Hudson Hongo, gawker.com
“What is foolish and unnecessary is the media criticism that immediately ties a well-publicized crime to the gun rather than to the criminal.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Violent crime in our inner cities is out of control. Murder rates are way up. There are far too many hardened drug dealers and gang members who are repeatedly involved in burglaries and drive-by killings. We need to get them off the streets so that they don’t continue to terrorize their neighborhood…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“No other right in the Bill of Rights has been attacked as often as the Second Amendment.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com