“There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.”

– Ted Nugent


“Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the most gun control, you have the highest crime rate.”

– Ted Nugent

“We say keep your change, we’ll keep our God, our guns, our Constitution.” – Sarah Palin

“The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?”

– P. J. O’Rourke


“Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people’s votes and the people’s guns are always inseparable twins.”

– Robert Mugabe

“America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.”

– Brad Pitt

“I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.”

– Maya Angelou

“People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.”

– Cal Thomas

“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.”

– James Earl Jones

“In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That’s what makes them criminals.”

– Rick Perry

“If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.”

– Bruce Willis

“That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.”

– Lyn Nofziger

“Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I’m used to having a few guns around to protect me.”

– Loretta Lynn

“The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them ‘more’ illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.”

– David Mamet

“I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.”

– Eva Longoria

“I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, ‘This is la-la land.’ God doesn’t say, ‘Welcome to Earth. Everything’s perfect. There’s no crime. There’s no murder. There’s no death.’ The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.”

– Luke Scott

“I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart.”

– Rick Perry

“I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric of minimal restrictions on individuals.”

– Michael Shermer

“I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.”

– Taya Kyle

“Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.”

– Gabrielle Giffords