Top 1200 Gun Ownership Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

Our vision for the world is making car ownership unnecessary.

When you find new genres of music, you take ownership of them.

Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

When it comes to the great either/or of pet ownership, I am definitely a cat person.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.

I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

When 'Top Gun' came out, my sisters were like, 'Oh, my God, 'Top Gun!' Tom Cruise!' And I very confidently said, 'I'm going to marry him one day.' It wasn't like, 'How do I get to Tom Cruise?' It was just, 'I think I'm going to marry him. Why not? He'll like me. I'm fun.'

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

Clubs need to take more ownership on how they recruit managers.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. Otherwise you may never become a mom.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like the Wild West. We made a couple weird things, like a tribute to the Zucker brothers, where we had a panel discussion about the Naked Gun movies. We wrote a script and made jokes that I'm sure were terrible and showed clips of The Naked Gun without permission.

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.

If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.

So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy.

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people.

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

I don't want to help brand someone else and not have equity or ownership in that company.

The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.

Taking ownership of your feelings is so vital to getting better.

We need more flexibility and ownership over the value we bring to the league.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.

Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless.

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.