{"quotes":[{"text":"I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["guns","ideas"],"id":3468,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"Evan stares at me.I try to hug him. He takes a step back. I pause, my heart in my throat. I’ve got to reach out to him, let myself be vulnerable. I find the courage, but he backs up again.“You can’t go to Iraq anymore.”“I know.”He looks up at Deanna, then back to me. “Did you fight bad guys? You told me you weren’t.” His voice is suspicious, full of accusation. He doesn’t trust me, and I don’t blame him for that.“No, Evan. I didn’t fight bad guys.”I can’t bring myself to tell him the complete truth. I want so desperately to go back into this fight. I miss it every day. I always felt I could change the world with a rifle in my hands and our flag on my shoulder.“Did you get shot?” he looks me over, apparently searching for bullet wounds.I grin a little. “No, Bud, I didn’t get shot.”“People get shot in Iraq.”“Yes, they do.” It strikes me then that Evan for the first time has a grasp on the dangers that are faced over there. He’s six now, and the world is coming into focus for him.“People get shot, Daddy. They die. Bad guys kill them.”I think of Edward Iwan and Sean Sims.“Yeah, I know they do, Evan.","author":"David Bellavia","tags":["army","dad","death","die","fight","guns","iraq","military","soldiers","son","terrorism","war"],"id":12450,"author_id":"David+Bellavia"},{"text":"The dude feels right fatherly. Takes her down to the crick to wash the underground off of her. Just can't bring himself to shoot her while she's filthy and starving. There's time. Offers her a cake of French-milled soap he brought all the way out from Chicago. Smells like gardenias if you know your flowers, and the dude does. Snow White knows something's skewed but she grabs it, strips off like it's nothing and climbs in the water. She don't shiver even though that stream has to be as cold as a wagon tire. The miner's crud comes off her in black ribbons. The duded watches another girl come out of the blind mole-skin she was walking around it. This one has muscles like a mountain cat and a kind of pretty he doesn't know what to do with. For fairness he'd take her stepmother six days and twice on Sunday. The beauty Snow White's got has nothing to do with him. She's scarred up and suspicious an shameless. Her pretty's not for him. It's like saying the moon's got a fine figure on her. Maybe true, but what good is that to a man?","author":"Catherynne M. Valente","tags":["beauty","guns","moon","snow-white"],"id":16037,"author_id":"Catherynne+M.+Valente"},{"text":"I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.","author":"Nathan Fillion","tags":["ship","movies","guns "],"id":20285,"author_id":"Nathan+Fillion"},{"text":"I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.","author":"D.W. Griffith","tags":["cinema","film","filmmaking","girl","girls","gun","guns","movies"],"id":20295,"author_id":"D.W.+Griffith"},{"text":"Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.","author":"Jean Zimmerman","tags":["guns","violence"],"id":28866,"author_id":"Jean+Zimmerman"},{"text":"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["guns","humor","hunting","perspective","shooting"],"id":29237,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","army","guns","horror","humour","shooting","thriller"],"id":31722,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks.","author":"Stanley Victor Paskavich","tags":["assult-rifles","gun-control","guns","laws","nra","rights","second-amendment"],"id":32894,"author_id":"Stanley+Victor+Paskavich"},{"text":"G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.","author":"Karen Traviss","tags":["heart","me","guns "],"id":35029,"author_id":"Karen+Traviss"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":170,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}