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(Talking about the proliferation of guns in the U.S., following the murder of Phil Hartman in 1998, who was shot to death by his wife) Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you`re gonna have. It`s pathetic. It really is pathetic. It`s sad. We`re living in the Dark Ages over there. It has to be stopped, and someone really has to go on the line, a certain dauntless political figure, and say, "It`s ending, it`s over, all bets are off." It`s not 200 years ago, we don`t need this any more, and the rest of the world doesn`t have it. Why should we?

- Sylvester Stallone

Owning a handgun doesn`t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

- Jeff Cooper

If you`re working in a high-crime neighborhood, and you see a person on a street corner hitching his belt up in a way that he would if he were concealing a handgun, you would want to examine that situation more closely. Or if you were patrolling a known drug-sales zone at three in the morning and saw somebody on their cell phone, you would want to look into that. But if you get to the fifth or sixth situation, and everybody that you have come across to this point has been black, you`re going to second-guess yourself.

- Heather MacDonald

We know at this point that it did come from inside the house. It appears to be his father`s handgun that was secured in an office that his father has in that house.

- Mike Hill

When the door was opened the occupant was confronted by a man armed with a handgun, ... A shot was then fired through the locked security door, hitting the wooden door.

- Wayne Wilson

This here`s a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and it can blow your head clean off. Now, you must ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well do you, punk? - Clint Eastwood

- Dirty Harry

It started out as some type of verbal argument, ended up in a wrestling or some type of a fight in residence, and Mr. Geffrard ended up pulling out a handgun and shooting, and one of the shots struck the female that`s now in the hospital.

- Arch Currid