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The Director: Your family only lived in that gulag for three months. In December 1941 it burned to the ground. All of the prisoners had escaped. All of the guards have been killed. Tortured to death.
The Heavy: I. Like. To shoot. This gun. Is all you need to know.
— "Meet the Director", Team Fortress 2

There's no feeling any greater
than to shoot first and ask questions later,
now I'm Trigger Happy,
Trigger Happy every day (happy every day)!
"Weird Al" Yankovic, "Trigger Happy"

"Mr. West, not every situation requires your patented approach of shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and then when everybody's dead try to ask a question or two."
The President, Wild Wild West

"It's guns! I love guns!...Machine guns? That's even better!"
Ladd Russo, Baccano!!

"John, I want to tell you something I've never put into words before. I LOVE shooting things... [fires and burns giant plant off of Moya] ...and I'm good at it."
D'argo, Farscape

Rollo T: Now there have been a few reports that you're in fact a little 'gun crazy'.
Angry Joe: WHO SAID THAT? [shoots camera]

What a wonder is a gun! What a versatile invention!
First of all, when you've a gun...

[cocks his gun and aims it directly at the audience]
...everybody pays attention!
Charles Guiteau, Assassins

People ask me how I do it
And I say there's nothing to it.
You just stand there looking cute
And when something moves, you shoot.
Tom Lehrer, "The Hunting Song", Songs by Tom Lehrer

I am the scales of justice! Conductor of the choir of death! Sing, Brother Heckler! Sing, Brother Koch! SIIIIIIIIIIIING!

In my experience, if something seems too good to be true, it's best to shoot it just in case.
Fiona Glenanne, Burn Notice "Shot in the Dark"

We'z da shootiest dere iz!
C'mere so I can shoot ya!
I got me an itchy trigger finger!
We'z gonna shoot some stuff up, yeah?
Shore we'll take it, but when do we get to shoot sumfin'?
Ork Flash Gitz, Dawn of War

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