Quote by Brad Parks

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

— Ed Helms

“gun crime: it wasn’t equally distributed throughout black America. Rather, it was concentrated among the poorest blacks, who were forced into living conditions that…

— James Forman Jr

“Everything boiled down to alcohol and guns.”

— Nisi Shawl

“In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.”

— Bryant McGill

When I was in So Solid Crew, people were always asking if we were associated with the rise in gun crime.

— Ashley Walters

“Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the texture of their lives. It wasn’t so much…

— Dan Baum

“Guns and dope are the soup and sandwich of American crime.”

— Don Winslow

“I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the…

— Edward Abbey

“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great Depression.”

— Lance Dodes

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were…

— Bob Costas

“For decades, the government has worked tirelessly to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Somehow believing that a disarmed society is immune from violence, the…

— Scottie Nell Hughes

Guns are part of the American identity.

— Henry Rollins