Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.
It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.
I have several guns. I have several dirt bikes and ATVs, good old country-boy things.
I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it.
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.
Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state.
We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.