A Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

Melvin Van Peebles

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Barrel Down Forget Forget It Gun Look

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Melvin Van Peebles
American - Novelist
Born: August 21, 1932

If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

Chuck Norris

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

Dalai Lama

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Christina Milian

It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

Linda Colley

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

Henry Rollins

The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

P. J. O'Rourke

We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.

Baba Kalyani

Each year, about 45 million people are affected by war. Three hundred thousand people die looking down the barrel of a gun - and 200,000 of these are killed in countries ostensibly at peace.