Dick Cavett Quotes

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

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 have never been a shooter.

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

You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.

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?

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.

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.

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

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

SELF-PROTECTORS TO TRAVELLERS AND PLANTERS: For travellers, housekeepers, captaias, planters, and others, they are an indispensable article, as persons, both male and female, can with this pistol protect their lives or property if attacked by many persons.

The militiaman is best employed at his plough

To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.

Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

You break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

Because criminals know that when they see a house with 2 foot tall grass, a dog on a chain, and an engine hanging from a tree, a gun lives in that house. And if you want to know what kind, just break in at 2 in the morning.

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.