Jim Allchin Quotes

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

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

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

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

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.

One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

He who points a gun kills.

I wonder why he shot me?.

This non-violent stuff ain’t no good. It’ll get you killed.

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with [ordinary] weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming..

In high school and college, I gathered a number of medals for marksmanship, but I have long since abandoned this activity, having concluded that the world would be a better place with fewer sharpshooters.

Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and mindless, but still Will. He stops running and mirrors me, his feet planted and his gun up. In an instant, I see his finger poised over the trigger and hear the bullet slide into the chamber, and I fire. My eyes squeezed shut. Can't breathe. The bullet hit him in the head. I know because that's where I aimed it.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.