Casey Stengel Quotes

If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun.

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

Before going into a room, make sure you can get out again.

We must institute reasonable, common-sense limits, such as barring those with a history of mental instability, those with a history of violent crime or adjudged dangerous and subject to restraining orders, and those whose names have been placed on a terrorist watch list from owning weapons.

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

I ask the question all the time of people that are on the anti-gun side. And I say, OK, if you're in a situation like the tragedy and the murderous rage in San Bernardino and you're in a room like that, would you want somebody that knew how to use a firearm and had one with them, or if somebody breaks into your house, what are you going to do if they are armed and you are not? And there's not a good answer. There's no good answer except you're a sitting duck for the most part if you're not armed.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.

If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

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

The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It's like a septic tank saying, 'You need a mint.'

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?