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This article is about the projectile weapon. For other uses, see Gun (disambiguation).
In military parlance, a gun is a muzzle or breech-loaded projectile-firing weapon. There are various definitions depending on the nation and branch of service. .A "gun" may be distinguished from other firearms in being a crew served weapon such as a howitzer or mortar, as opposed to a small arm like a rifle or pistol, but there are exceptions, such as the USAF's GUU5/P.^ It is only illegal if there is no actual fire, since such an action may lead to injury or death resulting from unnecessary panic.
  • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If I wanted to kill a lot of people (for whatever reason), I would choose somewhere I believed there would not be others with guns to stop me.
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 ^ While there may be various reasons for this, I believe one reason is that they are not considered "soft" targets by those that may be motivated to kill lots of others.
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 At one time, land-based artillery tubes were called cannon and sea-based naval cannon were called guns. .The term "gun" morphed into a generic term for any tube launched projectile firing weapon used by sailors including boarding parties and Marines.^ Forged using the design of Sonic's own blade, the FyreForce is a devastating weapon in a battle against any foe weak to fire.
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

 ^ A ranged fire weapon like no other, this bow fires two elemental arrows into your enemy at a time!
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The undead demon Stragath's tongue had been forged into a weapon of darkness and fire!
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]
.In modern parlance, a gun is a projectile weapon using a hollow, tubular barrel with a closed end—the breech—as the means of directing the projectile (as well as other purposes, for example stabilizing the projectile's trajectory, aiming, as an expansion chamber for propellant, etc), and firing in a generally flat trajectory.^ If that means the use of guns, so be it.
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 ^ He could have used a bomb or other means but he chose hand guns.
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 ^ Outlaw guns, and pathological killers will use other means....
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The term "gun" has also taken on a more generic meaning, by which it has come to refer to any one of a number of trigger-initiated, hand-held, and hand-directed implements, especially with an extending bore, which thereby resemble the class of weapon in either form or concept. Examples of this usage include staple gun, nail gun, glue gun, grease gun. Occasionally, this tendency is ironically reversed, such as the case of the American M3 submachine gun which carries the nickname "Grease Gun".
.Most guns are described by the type of barrel used, the means of firing, the purpose of the weapon, the caliber, or the commonly accepted name for a particular variation.^ If that means the use of guns, so be it.
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 ^ Forged using the design of Sonic's own blade, the FyreForce is a devastating weapon in a battle against any foe weak to fire.
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

 ^ This odd Drakel firearm can be used as a sword or a gun, and can power up if you use SP! Click the bayonet to switch between shooting and swinging this weapon, and click the barrel of the gun to spend SP to boost your accuracy, damage, or BOTH! .
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]
Barrel types include rifled—a series of spiraled grooves or angles within the barrel—when the projectile requires an induced spin to stabilize it and smoothbore when the projectile is stabilized by other means or is undesired or unnecessary. Typically, interior barrel diameter and the associated projectile size is a means to identify gun variations. Barrel diameter is reported in several ways. The more conventional measure is reporting the interior diameter of the barrel in decimal fractions of the inch or in millimeters. .Some guns—such as shotguns—report the weapon's gauge or—as in some British ordnance—the weight of the weapon's usual projectile.^ They can be made to be lethal weapons, are are used as such in some circumstances.
  • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If you have a gun, you might use it, but if you don't, is a desk really such a bad weapon?
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 ^ Certain weapons, such as RPGs and Tanks with working main guns are also illegal.
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.A gun projectile may be a simple, single-piece item like a bullet, a casing containing a payload like a shotshell or explosive shell, or complex projectile like a sub-caliber projectile and sabot.^ This gun might fire its projectile with the primitive power of gunpowder, but a bullet can be just as effective as a laser or plasma bolt (sometimes!
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 The propellant may be air, an explosive solid, or an explosive liquid. Some variations like the Gyrojet and certain other types combine the projectile and propellant into a single item.
USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984.

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Terminology

The use of the term "cannon" is interchangeable with "gun" as words borrowed from the French language during the early 15th century, from Old French canon, itself a borrowing from the Italian cannone, a "large tube" augmentive of Latin canna "reed or cane".[1] Recent scholarship indicates that the term "gun" may also have its origins in the Norse woman's name "Gunnildr", which was often shortened to "Gunna".[2] The earliest recorded use of the term "gonne" was in a Latin document circa 1339. Other names for guns during this era were "schioppi" (Italian translation-"thunderers"), and "donrebusse" (Dutch translation-"thunder gun") which was incorporated into the English language as "blunderbuss".[3] Artillerymen were often referred to as "gonners" and "artillers".[4] Early guns and the men who used them were often associated with the devil and the gunner's craft was considered a black art, a point reinforced by the smell of sulfur on battlefields created from the firing of guns along with the muzzle blast and accompanying flash.[5]
.In military use, the term "gun" refers primarily to direct fire weapons that capitalize on their velocity for penetration or range.^ Forged using the design of Sonic's own blade, the FyreForce is a devastating weapon in a battle against any foe weak to fire.
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

 ^ A ranged fire weapon like no other, this bow fires two elemental arrows into your enemy at a time!
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Are you suggesting that, to defend oneself or family against an armed (with a GUN) attacker, that it's perfectly reasonable to tell folks to use a chair or desk as a comparable weapon?
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 .In modern parlance, these weapons are breech-loaded and built primarily for long range fire with a low or almost flat ballistic arc.^ A ranged fire weapon like no other, this bow fires two elemental arrows into your enemy at a time!
  • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

 ^ An awesome 2-hit ranged fire weapon designed by the techno-savvy Drakel.
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 ^ If guns were the problem then you'd find these sorts of murders taking place at firing ranges, NRA conventions, and gun shows.
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 A variation is the howitzer or gun-howitzer designed to offer the ability to fire both low or high-angle ballistic arcs. .In this use, example guns include naval guns.^ That in this one case guns might have been helpful is like using the example of a lottery winner to prove that investing in the lottery makes financial sense.
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 .A less strict application of the word is to identify one artillery weapon system or non-machine gun projectile armament on aircraft.^ Countries with strict gun control laws have far less gun violence.
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 ^ Not one of those gunned down students, or a bystander, was carrying a weapon of their own!!??
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 ^ I am in favor of some type of control simular to the machine gun ban, and I think/believe it will have to be done on the makers of these weapons/clips.
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The word cannon is retained in some cases for the actual gun tube but not the weapon system. The title gunner is applied to the member of the team charged with operating, aiming, and firing a gun.
Autocannon are automatic guns designed primarily to fire shells and are mounted on a vehicle or other mount. Machine guns are similar, but usually designed to fire simple projectiles. In some calibers and some usages, these two definitions overlap.
.A related military use of the word is in describing gun-type fission weapon.^ Are you suggesting that, to defend oneself or family against an armed (with a GUN) attacker, that it's perfectly reasonable to tell folks to use a chair or desk as a comparable weapon?
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 ^ If you have a gun, you might use it, but if you don't, is a desk really such a bad weapon?
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 ^ I am in favor of some type of control simular to the machine gun ban, and I think/believe it will have to be done on the makers of these weapons/clips.
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 In this instance, the "gun" is part of a nuclear weapon and contains an explosively propelled sub-critical slug of fissile material within a barrel to be fired into a second sub-critical mass in order to initiate the fission reaction. Potentially confused with this usage are small nuclear devices capable of being fired by artillery or recoilless rifle.
In civilian use, a related item used in agriculture is a captive bolt gun. .Such captive piston guns are often used to humanely stun farm animals for slaughter.^ If you have a gun, you might use it, but if you don't, is a desk really such a bad weapon?
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 [6]
.Shotguns are normally civilian weapons used primarily for hunting.^ Most Americans have no problem with hunting rifles and shotguns, but seme-auto and automatic weapons should not be sold to the public.
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 .These weapons are typically smooth bored and fire a shell containing small lead or steel balls.^ Semi-Automatic means that the spent shell is ejected from the weapon and a new round is chambered and the weapon can be fired with the next pull of the trigger.
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 Variations use rifled barrels or fire other projectiles including solid lead slugs, a Taser XREP projectile capable of stunning a target, or other payloads. In military versions, these weapons are often used to burst door hinges or locks in addition to antipersonnel uses.1

Types of guns

Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver
Marlin Model 1894C — a carbine in .357 Magnum

Military firearms

Machine guns

Handguns

Autocannon

Artillery guns

Tank guns

Hunting guns

Guns for training and entertainment

See also

Citations and notes

  1. ^ Online Etymological Dictionary
  2. ^ Kelly, Jack. (2004). Gunpowder Alchemy, Bombards, & Pyrotechnics:The History of the Explosive that Changed the World. Basic Books. pg.31
  3. ^ Ibid:pg.31
  4. ^ Ibid:pg.30
  5. ^ Ibid:pg.32
  6. ^ Captive Bolt Stunning Equipment and the Law - How it applies to you (pdf)

References

  • Lee, R.G., Introduction to battlefield weapons, systems & technology, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, UK, Brassey's Publishers, Oxford, 1981
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  • "Every communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.^ Let's get our guns out and fight like a man!
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     ^ Joe Truth, "Or do you think our country, with its horrible crime record involving guns, is a model for the rest of the world to follow?"
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     ^ Our government should raise taxes to pay for a program where every gun nut yahoo is forced to spend a summer in a sane country.
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     .Yet, having guns, we can create Party organizations, as witness the powerful Party organizations which the Eighth Route Army has created in northern China.^ Even so, the opening skirmish came not over law enforcement, but over the Gun Control Act's creation of a secretarial power to require submission of reports by licensees.
    • THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guncite.com [Source type: Original source]

     We can also create cadres, create schools, create culture, create mass movements. Everything in Yenan has been created by having guns. .All things grow out of the barrel of a gun."^ The availability of a gun can make all of the difference in the world-- imagine if the latest mass murderer set out to kill 32 people with a only a knife.
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     ^ All we want are some logical sensical laws that will weed out the mentally unstable or dangerous from buying a hand gun.
    • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Answer one question - how will you eliminate all the guns currently out there?
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    • Mao Zedong, "Problems of War and Strategy", 1938 [1]. Mao was justifying war as a means to achieving political ends. .The quote has been altered or otherwise interpreted by American gun control opponents as a totalitarian endorsement of gun control, for instance with the phrasing, "The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."
  • "If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of crime rates reduced by such legislation.^ Violent gun crimes transend all ethnic types.
    • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Gun Control worked great for Hitler.
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     ^ What we have right now on the books for gun control laws is not working.
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     .That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime."^ The manufacturer might also invoke the Gun Control Act's general exemption for arms "sold or shipped to" the United States.
    • THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guncite.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ While FOPA's main thrust was directed at the Gun Control Act, it also affects other firearms laws as well.
    • THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guncite.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ United States, 446 U.S. 398 (1980) both held that a defendant charged with an offense which embodied enhanced punishment for use of a weapon could not also be charged under the Gun Control Act with the offense of using a firearm in a federal felony.
    • THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guncite.com [Source type: Original source]

     .
  • "Remember when she had Tom Selleck on her program a while back?^ The right to bear arms is of a piece with the right of self-defense.
    • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Gun control laws clearly work better than the right to bear arms when it comes to stopping gun violence.
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     ^ I am always perfectly fine with any American excersising the Constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.
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     She blind-sided Tom Selleck! He's a good fella, ain't never hurt nobody, but he's in the NRA, so she hates that. She was like, 'Well, you're in the NRA. Let me tell you something, Tom: guns kill people!' .Do you believe she said that?^ Jesus also said "if you have no sword then sell your cloak" I believe this was in referance to self-defense!
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     On the Rosie O'Fatass show! .She looks right at him and says, 'Guns kill people!'^ Guns don't kill people, people kill people!
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     ^ Guns don't kill people, gun nuts do.
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     ^ Guns kill people!
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     .Let me tell you something: husbands that come home early kill people!^ 'Who would you blame if Cho would have made homemade bombs instead of a firearm and killed even more people' .
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     ^ Every time I read an article about some poor teenager killing himself with a firearm from his home, I will think of you.
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     ^ Saint Pius X School, Ottawa Robert Poulin, an 18-year-old militia sharpshooter, kills a girl at a youth home, then shoots six people at Saint Pius X school in Ottawa.
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     Alright? .The gun was just sitting there!^ There is obviously no guarantee that any of this would have prevented what happened, just as it is obvious that different gun laws would not have guaranteed a different outcome.
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     ^ No, the liberal would legislate gun control and there would be no gun fight to begin with, just you running away from a liberal shaking a stick at you.
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     .If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil!^ If guns kill people, pencils cause misspelled words.
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     ^ Guns don't kill people, people kill people!
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     ^ Guns don't kill people, gun nuts do.
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     Git-r-done!" .
  • "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.^ I take it that many of you are not really aware than a whole bunch of Circuit Courts of Appeal have ruled that way, while others have ruled in favor of the individual's right to bear arms.
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     If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn."
    • Mahatma Gandhi, "An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth", Chapter 27, Recruiting Campaign, from a leaflet urging Indians to serve with the British Army in World War II. [2]
  • "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."
  • "And in my mind, I'm going why can't I just shoot this guy in the spine right now; shoot him in the spine, explain the facts of life to him"
    • Ted Nugent, as guest DJ on WRIF-FM, Detroit, September 28, 1990; referring to an encounter with a Hare Krishna
  • "GUN CONTROL: An ongoing public debate that might easily be resolved if we allowed everyone to obtain firearms but suspended the production of bullets."
    • Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary, 1997
  • "My personal opinion is that guns kill people."
    • Sam Donaldson, ABC News Primetime Live, February 22, 1990
  • "Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advise by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual was to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia."
    • George Mason, June 14, 1788, quoted on page 380 of The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, 1861, Jonathan Elliot, ed. (The "artful man" in the quote is Sir William Keith.) .This quote has typically been rephrased by gun control opponents; for instance, "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them."
  • "The laws of [false utility] are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent.^ When people see you walking around with this they know you mean trouble to any dragons who stand in your way!
    • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

     .Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance?^ Volkmer) (FOPA will direct "enforcement toward those who illegally traffic in firearms, toward those who criminally use firearms, and away from regulation of the law-abiding citizen").
    • THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guncite.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ [I]f the failure was due to a mistake of law or fact or due to negligence on the part of the licensee, the violation of the law most likely would not be punishable.
    • THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guncite.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The dealer will be held accountable for any sales in violation of applicable state or local laws, and it is up to the Treasury Department to update those handbooks on a regular basis."
    • THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVE 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guncite.com [Source type: Original source]

     Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator?"
    • Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, 1764, Chapter 40 [3].
    • Has been falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson transcribed this passage (in the original Italian) in his Legal Commonplace Book, item 828.
  • "A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."
    • George Washington, January 8, 1790, First State of the Union Address [4]
    • This quote concerns national war preparations. .It has sometimes been altered by gun control opponents into an endorsement of private gun ownership; for example "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
  • "The [balance of power] would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not others dare not lay them aside.^ The only people who follow gun control laws are only the good guys!
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     ^ Who would benefit from gun control?
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     ^ The only people who follow gun control laws are the good guys!
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     .And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up.^ Maybe we should take down all the red lights and stop signs too and just rely on all drivers being good drivers and having personal responsibility?
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     Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong."
    • Thomas Paine, Thoughts on Defensive War, July, 1775 [5]. (Written anonymously but attributed to Paine.)
      • .
  • Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon — rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.^ Thin Man I have a concealed weapons license.
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     ^ We should ALL carry concealed weapons?
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     ^ What sad is that Virgina is a state that allows law abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons, however not on school grounds or university grounds.
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  • "...Let me make a short, opening, blanket comment. .There are no good guns.^ Joe Truth - the reaon you're appalled is that there is no factual basis for you gun control stance.
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     ^ The simple minded are quick to say:"Well if there were no guns then those kids wouldn't have died".
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     ^ There is obviously no guarantee that any of this would have prevented what happened, just as it is obvious that different gun laws would not have guaranteed a different outcome.
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     There are no bad guns. .Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing.^ Bad people will get guns, (they do in the UK, where they're BANNED) and when they do, the only thing that can stop them is a good person with a gun.
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     .Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody -- except bad people..."^ Knowing that a school is gun-free, such a person can go on a shooting rampage secure that no one at the school is likely to fire back at him or her.
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     ^ I think this incident proves that "requiring" everyone to have personal responsibility is a bad argument for no gun control.
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     ^ Personally I want to have my gun in my hand when one nut goes off and tries to kill everyone in sight.
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    • former NRA president Charlton Heston, at NBC's "Meet the Press", May 18, 1997
  • "If people don't want to defend themselves, they deserve to die."^ Haha, it is ironic to have these NRA ideologues saying that guns don't kill people -- people kill people.
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     ^ These are things the forefathers could not have foreseen and I don't believe they would want every citizen to own a tank for the cause of securing a free state.
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     ^ Anyone not convicted of a felony, or violent crime should be encouraged to arm themselves to defend GOOD people from the EVIL that a culture of death can produce.
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    • Ted Nugent, quoted by Wisconsin State Senator David Zien, November 3, 2005 [7].
  • "There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"
    • Arms dealer Yuri Orlov (played by Nicolas Cage), Lord of War, 2005 [8]
  • The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. .
    • Hubert Humphrey, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies, p.^ Profiling is wrong, don't you know nuthin?
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  • Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a populace is much easier to herd, loot — and dispose of — if it has been stripped of its weapons. .The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.^ Place a gun in every classroom and all public places (malls, schools, public buildings etc.
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     ^ To stop murder, all we have to do is pass a law banning citizens from owning guns.
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     ^ All we want are some logical sensical laws that will weed out the mentally unstable or dangerous from buying a hand gun.
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  • Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.^ The gun is responsible not the person who used it.
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     ^ I don't personaly own a gun, I don't plan to, however, don't tell me I can't have one, and that preventing me from having one is going to stop a psychotic from commiting crime.
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     ^ Having seen the damage this kind of weapon does while serving this Country in war, I am well aware of the damage these weapons will cause in the hands of people who should or should not possess them.
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  • Be not afraid of any man no matter what his size; when danger threatens, call on me, and I will equalize. .
    • Legend on a Colt revolver
  • "There's no question that weapons in the hands of the public have prevented acts of terror or stopped them."^ There is simply no need whatsoever for an AK-47 or any other weapon that can shoot hundreds of rounds in a matter of seconds.
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     ^ John Edwards (D-N.C.) said about the Patriot Act, "we simply cannot prevail in the battle against terrorism if the right hand of our government has no idea what the left hand is doing" (Press release, 10/26/01) .
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     ^ There are no lists of what hasn't happened, and the basis for my statement that the core of the patriot act as been upheld is that so little of it has been overruled.
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     .
    • Israeli Police Inspector General Shlomo Aharonisk
  • "After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."^ It's time to take the guns away, and throw them away...
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     ^ Hey, pants allow people to conceal these guns we want to ban, let's ban pants.
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     ^ The only people who follow gun control laws are the good guys!
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  • "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word."
    • Al Capone
  • "Everyone has a right to bear arms. .If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys."^ When people see you walking around with this they know you mean trouble to any dragons who stand in your way!
    • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

     .Even a pacifist, he insists, would get violent if someone were trying to kill him.^ 'Who would you blame if Cho would have made homemade bombs instead of a firearm and killed even more people' .
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     ^ If someone had taken him out early, perhaps 30 people would still be alive.
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     ^ If they had legal carry (CCW) someone -be that a student or instructor- may very well have stop him from all the killing......
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     "You would fight for your life."
  • "And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun"
  • "The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers."
    • Samuel Colt. (From ForbesLife Magazine)
  • "25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. .However, 4 out of 5 U.S. murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who is crazy?"^ I'm afraid he would have carried out his biding with some other form of destruction, but it is damn hard to mass murder or drive by with a muzzel loader.
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     ^ Leave the rest of the country to law abiding people who don't want to murder and want their kids safe .
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     ^ Making more things to do with guns illegal isn't going to deter people who intend to commit Murder, Rape , Robbery.
    • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Andrew Ford
  • "History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
  • "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms."
  • "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
  • "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. .Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."^ They permit murders as to which people would otherwise have time to rethink or lack sufficient will to overcome the higher barriers.
    • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]
    • James Earl Jones
  • "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
  • 'Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
    • General MacArthur
  • "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms." .
  • "To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death.^ You cannot honestly tell me that because my favorite radio host informs me of things that are going on in the world and with my government, that he is spewing hate!
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     ^ I don't personaly own a gun, I don't plan to, however, don't tell me I can't have one, and that preventing me from having one is going to stop a psychotic from commiting crime.
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     ^ If the local government, if even VT, had done their job, that inforamton would have gone into the National Crime Database and he wopuld have been prevented from purchasing or owning any gun, even any ammunition.
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     How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic."
  • "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
    • Joseph Story
  • "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe."
  • "Gun Control: The notion that Matthew Shepard tied to a fence post in the middle of Wyoming is morally superior to Matthew Shepard explaining to the local sheriff how his attackers got all those fatal bullet holes."
    • Dan Weiner
  • "Hell, when the man said Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, I just thought he was making a delivery!"
    • James Wesley, Rawles
  • "I believe that guns don't kill people, husbands that come home early do."
    • Daniel Lawrence Whitney (Larry the Cable Guy)
  • "Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God."
  • "The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's goodbye to the Bill of Rights."
    • Unknown
  • "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." .
    • Unknown
  • "If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns."^ When you outlaw guns, only the outlaws have guns.
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     .
    • Unknown
  • "You want more gun control?^ This is one gun that you don't want to get wet!
    • AQ Weapon List 21 January 2010 19:26 UTC www.battleon.com [Source type: General]

     Use both hands."
    • Unknown
  • "Smith & Wesson, the original point and click interface."
    • Unknown
  • "Guns, the American way to keep crime at bay. "Civilized" Europeans must settle for extra Vaseline. .
    • Unknown
  • "GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE, I KILL PEOPLE WITH GUNS!!!."^ I am sick and tired of silly comments like "guns don't kill people, people do", etc., etc., ad nauseam.
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     ^ If guns kill people, pencils cause misspelled words.
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     ^ What I do care about is the senseless killing PEOPLE do with GUNS. Guns don't kill, people do.
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    • Chase Dowpalpatine
  • "God made man and God made woman, but Samuel Colt made them equal."
    • Unknown
  • "Study: 1.7 Million Children in Homes Where Loaded, Unlocked Gun Kept. .Most have been told not to take gun to school, fire on teachers, classmates."^ Knowing that a school is gun-free, such a person can go on a shooting rampage secure that no one at the school is likely to fire back at him or her.
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     ^ If guns were the problem then you'd find these sorts of murders taking place at firing ranges, NRA conventions, and gun shows.
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     ^ School Number One, Beslan, Russia Chechen militants take over School Number One in Beslan, Russia, where more than 1,100 students, teachers and parents become hostages.
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  • "...treatment of a gunshot wound to the chest costs on average $322,000, according to the Violence Prevention Institute..."
  • "Guns, in the hands of a countries citizenry, are what makes the difference between a free state and a totalitarian one."
    • Brian Lott
  • "Shooting is not about aggression. Honest!"
    • Unnamed British Armed Forces Officer

Misattributed

  • "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Falsely attributed to Sigmund Freud.
    • This has been sourced to General Introduction to Psychoanalysis [10] [11] [12] [13] due to a misreading of a 1990 essay by Don B. Kates [14]. .The quote is Kates' own characterization of a passage in Freud and Oppenheim, Dreams in Folklore, and not Freud's words.
  • "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."^ You have a right to bear arms for a reason.
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     ^ The argument that we need to retain the right to bear 'arms' in order to resist an oppressive government: .
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     ^ That will not be allowed to happen here, and the reason is that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall be infringed."
    • The Fix - Parsing the Polls on Gun Control 6 February 2010 11:41 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: Original source]

     - Falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson
    • This has been sourced to "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson", edited by C.J. Boyd. The quote does not appear in Jefferson's collected papers as searched in Google Print. The name of the editor is also problematic: some volumes of Jefferson's papers were edited by Julian P. Boyd, not C.J. Boyd.

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