Massachusetts Bay Colony Quotes

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

If you go out in the woods in hunting season, your going to get shot.

I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.

I've been shooting all my life.

I have never been a shooter.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just sport. The ones who believe they have a constitutional right to 100-round magazines to fight off I don't know what - a zombie apocalypse? - try to shut down dialogue with threats and other macho posing because of their flawed beliefs.

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

I'm completely opposed to selling automatic rifles. I don't see any reason why they ever made semiautomatics. I've been a member of the NRA; I collect, make and shoot guns. I've never used an automatic or semiautomatic for hunting. There's no need to. They have no place in anybody's arsenal. If any SOB can't hit a deer with one shot, then he ought to quit shooting.

The real firearms argument is not a historical dispute about revolutionary America but a political one about 21st century America.

A great many sportsmen have urged me to support this bill. It is hard for me to understand the interest of sportsmen in pistols. I myself have fished and hunted a great deal. I have a deep interest in outdoor sports and the various associations which foster them, but it is common knowledge, of course, that fishermen never use a pistol and hunters practically never use a pistol... [even for] theoretical self-protection, the value of a revolver is very problematical..

I support the work of the NRA. I'm a member of the NRA.

I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.

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?

I'm a 'big' who just knows how to shoot.

I shoot occasionally, but I'm no gun expert.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!