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0a687df
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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guns
power
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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554be7a
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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
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guns
inspirational
respect
working-together
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Fred Rogers |
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8f7bc47
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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bear-arms
guns
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Alexandre Dumas |
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388dcb3
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As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.
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guns
ideas
life
plans
protection
safety
weapons
world
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Colson Whitehead |
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3995595
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I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
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culture
guns
war
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Don DeLillo |
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3ead00a
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I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.
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guns
klee
painting
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William S. Burroughs |
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Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular informity, have an average intelligence comparable to our own. Of course they are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves -- nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets -- and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.
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guns
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Beryl Markham |
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3e816bf
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Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
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fight
guns
tyler-durden
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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0fd1fc3
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"I snapped the crossbow into the top of the mount, took a canvas bundle from the cart, and unrolled it. Crossbow bolts, tipped with the Galahad warheads. "This is my baby." I petted the stock. "You have a strange relationship with your weapons," Roman said. "You have no idea," Raphael told him. "This from a man with a living staff and a man who once drove four hours both ways for a sword he then put on his wall," I murmured. "It was an Angus Trim," Raphael said. "It's a sharpened strip of metal." "You have an Angus Trim sword?" Kate's eyes lit up.
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guns
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Ilona Andrews |
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Take a little thought experiment. Imagine all the rampage school shooters in Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro, Arkansas; now imagine they were black girls from poor families who lived instead in Chicago, New Haven, Newark, Philadelphia, or Providence. Can you picture the national debate, the headlines, the hand-wringing? There is no doubt we'd be having a national debate about inner-city poor black girls. The entire focus would be on race, class, and gender. The media would doubtless invent a new term for their behavior, as with wilding two decades ago. We'd hear about the culture of poverty, about how living in the city breeds crime and violence. We'd hear some pundits proclaim some putative natural tendency among blacks toward violence. Someone would likely even blame feminism for causing girls to become violent in a vain imitation of boys. Yet the obvious fact that virtually all the rampage school shooters were middle-class white boys barely broke a ripple in the torrent of public discussion. This uniformity cut across all other differences among the shooters: some came from intact families, others from single-parent homes; some boys had acted violently in the past, and others were quiet and unassuming; some boys also expressed rage at their parents (two killed their parents the same morning), and others seemed to live in happy families.
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angry-white-males
angry-young-man
class
class-struggle
guns
media
media-bias
media-distortion
privilege
school-shooting
school-shootings
white-privilege
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Michael S. Kimmel |
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1c0bd2a
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White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.
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fear
guns
music
new-orleans
power
race-relations
white
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Tom Robbins |
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7a97bb3
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I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots--written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements--and found that they called themselves or--it sounded just as bad in English--'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky.
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belarus
colonialism
god
guns
gush-emunim
hebron
israel
israeli-palestinian-conflict
jews
palestine
palestinians
poland
religious-extremism
squatters
students
yeshivas
zionists
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Christopher Hitchens |
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7ea24a1
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You can make laws against weapons but they will be observed only by those who don't intend to use them anyway. The lawless can always smuggle or steal or even make a gun. By refusing to wear a gun you allow the criminal to operate with impunity.
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guns
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Louis L'Amour |
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New Rule: Gun-control people have to stop pressuring Starbucks to ban guns. I want my gun nuts overcaffeinated, twitchy, and accident-prone. That way, the problem will take care of itself. Plus, if just one gun nut kills just one pseudo-intellectual writing a screenplay-slash-graphic-novel on his iPad, natural selection is doing its job.
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coffee
gun-control
guns
humor
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Bill Maher |
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ed6a403
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One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he gave me the Datsun and went out and bought a Lincoln.
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datsun
guns
phallic
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Christopher Moore |
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2fd0730
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Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.
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guns
humor
john-sandford
mgg
michele-cook
nra
outrage
the-singular-menace
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John Sandford |
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44635ab
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"Chris asks, "What are you going to stick to?" "Mah guns, boy, mah guns," I tell him. "That's the Code of the West."
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guns
montana
wild-west
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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b584874
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A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.
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guns
revolver
tension
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Adrian McKinty |
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1482faa
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His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vacancy appeared in the glass, flinging off shards and slivers.
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crime-thriller
gun
gunplay
guns
noir
noir-fiction
pistol
shooter
shooting
shootings
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Cornell Woolrich |
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8a06c1f
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"Just inside the doorway he puts down the bags, motions her to stand by them a minute. He saunters out ahead, carefully casual. Peers up one way, down the other. Nothing. The street's dead to the world. Then suddenly, from nowhere, ping! Something flicks off the wall just behind him, flops at his feet like a dead bug. He doesn't bend down to look closer, he can tell what kind of a bug it is all right. He's seen that kind of bug before, plenty of times. No flash, no report, to show which direction it came from. Silencer, of course. He hasn't moved. Fsssh! and a bee or wasp in a hurry strokes by his cheek, tingles, draws a drop of slow blood. Another pokk! from the wall, another bug rolling over. The insect-world seems very streamlined, very self-destructive, tonight. ("Jane Brown's Body")"
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guns
noir
shots
sniper
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Cornell Woolrich |
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8e8a9e8
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"A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall. A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ("Jane Brown's Body")"
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gunplay
guns
mob
mobsters
noir
shot
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Cornell Woolrich |
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e09c63e
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When guns boom, the arts die.
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guns
war
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Howard Zinn |
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c4f9d8a
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. When you were two years old you were shooting people with toy guns.
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guns
wisdom
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Ray Bradbury |
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c00f055
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Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.
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boys
disappointment
guns
hunting
like-life
lorrie-moore
orgasm
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Lorrie Moore |
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ea49db0
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I went to the door and looked out. The cool night breeze was blowing peacefully down the hall. No excited neighbors hung out of doorways. A small gun had gone off and broken a pane of glass, but noises like that don't mean much any more.
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crime
guns
los-angeles
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Raymond Chandler |
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1a7d7b7
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"That Mossberg," Boris said to me, accepting the bottle passed over the front seat. "Evil dirty thing. Sawed off--? sprays pellets here to Hamburg. Aim it way the fuck away from everyone and still you will hit half the people in the room."
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guns
killing
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Donna Tartt |
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8ab9027
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Wars were connected by arms manufacturers, the same arms manufacturers who made the guns used in robberies, who made the guns used by crazy people in America when they when on the rampage in a shopping centre or hamburger restaurant. So already you had connection between hamburgers and dictators. Start from there and the thing just grew and grew.
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crime-fiction
guns
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Ian Rankin |