Molly Ivins Quotes

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

One of the really painful things we have found out about weapons carried by our kids is that they think they have to bring in the weapons to protect themselves.

One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?

Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.

In the hands of fiends, guns will kill you. In your hands, they protect against such fiends.

I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

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. You'd use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I've been watching too many Bruce Willis movies!

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Recently a guy was having trouble with his computer. So he unplugs it, takes it out in the alley, pulls out a gun, and shoots it eight times. Coincidentally, that's how Hillary got rid of her emails.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.