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->'''Simon:''' I'm going to stand behind you and hold your shoulders.\\
'''C.J.:''' I don't need training wheels.\\
'''Simon:''' Okay.\\
(''she fires and is knocked flat by the recoil'')\\
'''Simon:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Be careful]], that .357's got a bit of a kick.\\
'''C.J.:''' That thing practically broke my arm! I've been wrong about guns, we should just hand these out to criminals!\\
'''Simon:''' Want to go home now?\\
'''C.J.:''' What do you got?\\
'''Simon:''' I'm sorry?\\
'''C.J.:''' Marksmanship-wise?\\
'''Simon:''' Well, I can fire a gun without falling down, if that's what you mean.
-->--''Series/TheWestWing''
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->"Every reaction drive makes an equal and opposite [[WeaponisedExhaust weapon!]]"

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->"Every ->''"Every reaction drive makes an equal and opposite [[WeaponisedExhaust weapon!]]"weapon!]]"''
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->"Every reaction drive makes an equal and opposite [[WeaponisedExhaust weapon!]]"
-->-- '''Tom Paris''', ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''

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->Recoilless rifles, aren't.

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->Recoilless ->''"Recoilless rifles, aren't."''



->''If a boy fires off a gun, whether at a fox, a landlord or a reigning sovereign, he will be rebuked according to the relative value of these objects. But if he fires off a gun for the first time it is very likely that he will not expect the recoil, or know what a heavy knock it can give him. He may go blazing away through life at these and similar objects in the landscape; but he will be less and less surprised by the recoil; that is, by the reaction. He may even dissuade his little sister of six from firing off one of the heavy rifles designed for the destruction of elephants;''
-->'''Creator/GKChesterton'''

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->''If ->''"If a boy fires off a gun, whether at a fox, a landlord or a reigning sovereign, he will be rebuked according to the relative value of these objects. But if he fires off a gun for the first time it is very likely that he will not expect the recoil, or know what a heavy knock it can give him. He may go blazing away through life at these and similar objects in the landscape; but he will be less and less surprised by the recoil; that is, by the reaction. He may even dissuade his little sister of six from firing off one of the heavy rifles designed for the destruction of elephants;''
-->'''Creator/GKChesterton'''
elephants;"''
-->-- '''Creator/GKChesterton'''
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-> Recoilless rifles -aren't.

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-> Recoilless rifles -aren't.->Recoilless rifles, aren't.



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-->'''GKChesterton'''

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->''If a boy fires off a gun, whether at a fox, a landlord or a reigning sovereign, he will be rebuked according to the relative value of these objects. But if he fires off a gun for the first time it is very likely that he will not expect the recoil, or know what a heavy knock it can give him. He may go blazing away through life at these and similar objects in the landscape; but he will be less and less surprised by the recoil; that is, by the reaction. He may even dissuade his little sister of six from firing off one of the heavy rifles designed for the destruction of elephants;''
-->'''GKChesterton'''

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