“My neighbour is a “lefty” of sorts (Obama bumper stickers, gung-ho socialized medicine, “guns should be banned”). So this past spring I put this sign up in my yard after one of his anti-gun rants at a neighbourhood cocktail party. ![]() The sign wasn’t up more than an hour before he called the police and wanted them to make me take down the sign. Fortunately, the officer politely informed him that it was not their job to take such action without a court order and that he had to file a complaint “downtown” first, which would be reviewed by the city attorney to see if it violated any city, county, or state ordinances, which if there was a violation a court order would be sent to the offending party (me) to “remove the sign in seven days.” After several weeks he was informed that the sign was legal (by a quarter of an inch) and there was nothing the city could do, which obviously made him madder. I tried to smooth things over by inviting him to go shooting with me and my friends at the hunting club, but that seemed to make him even more angry. I am at a loss how to reconcile our long relationship (notice I did not say friendship). Any suggestions would be welcome...” ![]() Gun Control: Using both hands - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Leave the gun, take the cannoli. - The Godfather The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley A gun gives you the body, not the bird. - Henry David Thoreau Guns have only two enemies - rust and politicians. - Unknown The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller Shooting Star: A famous actor who uses his gun too often - Daffynitions joe-ks.com A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun. - Unknown Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. - W S Gilbert Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? - Mae West Anti-social behavior is a trait in a world full of conformists. - Nikola Tesla Guns don't kill people. Dads with pretty daughters kill people. - Unknown Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. - Thomas Jefferson A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo Window: 1. A looking-out glass; 2. Place in the truck to hang your guns. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. - Norman Cousins You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. - Al Capone There's something fundamentally wrong with bringing a knife to a gun fight. - Sean Connery Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness If you have a gun you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank you can rob everyone. - Unknown It's better to have a gun and need it, than to not have a gun and not need it. - Ricky Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody, except bad people. - Charlton Heston I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan When I take a gun in hand, the safest place for a pheasant is just opposite the muzzle. - Sydney Smith The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. - Lyndon B Johnson A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson Like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone. - Malcolm Muggeridge The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? - Paul Harvey The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. - Huey Newton To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun. - Andy Dunn Only think of two things - the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other. - Sam Mussabini The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. - P G Wodehouse Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas. - Joseph Stalin Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single. - Tiny Tim I not only knew Houdini, but we had a very lovely relationship. I really though we had something going, and then the son of a gun disappeared. - Betty White I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. - George Carlin see also House, Police, Relationship, Security & Sign Sections Neighbour Love Neighbour Trap Problem Neighbour |
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