Top 1200 Gun Crime Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

I personally don't like guns at all, so pointing a gun at someone or having a gun pointed at me makes me feel very unbecoming. I think they're a scourge.

Do not forget that there are millions of Americans, who when they hear about gun control measures, are gonna be loudly applauding it. You know how many dumkoffs there are out there who think that it is the gun that is the problem in our culture, and you know how people believe in this gun control business 'cause whatever reasons they support it. You know it's gonna be applauded, and it's gonna be applauded in the Drive-By Media.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.

What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was.

Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation's gun laws.

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial.

If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one agrees with his conclusions, his work is mandatory reading for anyone who is open-minded and serious about the gun control issue. Especially fascinating is his account of the often unscrupulous reactions to his research by gun control advocates, academic critics, and the news media.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

If you live in America, you need a gun, and I am not very fast with a gun, so I think I would walk out very quickly.

If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone?

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

What gun owners would support policies that are blatantly designed to strip them of their constitutional freedom? To put it bluntly: gullible gun owners.

That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.