Rachel Nichols Quotes
The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
There had been a major drive to tighten gun control and register guns in Canada, regulate how guns are stored and how they are transported. The percentage of gun-related deaths went down in the subsequent years. By American standards however they were already far lower before any of the gun control legislation was enacted.
This is yet another quotation demonstrating that the image of early America as a gun culture where most men were armed, skilled with those arms, and ready to come to the defense of the country. It turns out that none of the three corresponded to any historical reality for most Americans.
This quotation is particularly interesting because it belies the image of America as a society where almost everyone was familiar with guns and firearms—that we had a gun culture. In reality most Americans from Colonial times on, could not afford guns and many that could afford them preferred other weapons for defense due to the lack of reliability of firearms. Guns were always a status symbol however. This quotation shows that most American soldiers did not know how to properly care for guns even in fundamental ways and could not be trusted to care for them much less repair them—a far cry from the image of the American rifleman alone in the first with his trusty weapon with which he was familiar and skilled.
Even though the research was done by the U. S. CDC (Communicable Disease Center), the finest public health research center in the world, it was still attacked by the National Rifle Association and many of their supporters in Congress. The response was so intense that in the appropriations for the CDC there was an amendment that required that Federal Money not be spent for “Gun Safety Research”. So Federal Health Agencies were actually barred by Congress from doing any research as to how guns can be used, stored and manufactured more safely.
Rachel Emily Nichols is an American actress and model. Nichols began modeling while attending Columbia University in New York City in the late 1990s, and transitioned into acting by the early 2000s; she had a part in the romantic drama Autumn in New York (2000) and a one-episode role in the fourth season of Sex and the City (2002). Her first major role was in the comedy Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003), and she went on to achieve wider recognition playing Rachel Gibson in the final season of the action television series Alias (2005–2006) and for her role in the horror film The Amityville Horror (2005).
