Capable Quote by Jeff Cooper

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

— Jeff Cooper

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you…

— Jeff Cooper

In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from…

— Jeff Cooper

Where there are more guns, there are more gun problems, it 's particularly dangerous to have a gun around when people do things spontaneously.…

— David Hemenway

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have,…

— Michael Gartner

As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get…

— Ronald Reagan

Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?

— Natalie Angier

I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own…

— John Silber

I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in a situation…

— Sean Hannity

I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun.

— Kinky Friedman

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to…

— Sam Harris

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over…

— Bob Costas