Quote by Laurent Gayer

My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known…

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

“Predictable but Contingent: The First ‘Political’ Killing at Karachi University On 25 February 1981, a group of left-wing students from the NSF and PSF…

— Laurent Gayer

Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student…

— Conan O'Brien

“Within a very few years the Kalashnikov’s attributes—its mechanical characteristics combined with its unprecedented availability—transformed Stalin’s rifle, conceived as a tool of the state,…

— C.J. Chivers

“Considering most of the weapons and equipment used in Afghanistan were of Russian origin, Keegan suspected it was a Dragunov; a heavy sniper rifle…

— Will Jordan

The automatic Kalashnikov is a tool, an implement designed for ordinary men, without much training or undue complications, to kill other men, and to…

— C. J. Chivers

Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one…

— Jeff Cooper

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some…

— Bill Dedman

“The weapon, which Kalashnikov emphasizes as a defensive tool and a shared monument to the population’s creative energy, was rather a marker of the…

— C.J. Chivers

There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.

— Dizzee Rascal

“Taliban stands for student; own a pen not gun.”

— Vinita Kinra

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