You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

The Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun.

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.

He reaches into my holster and pulls my gun out. I'm looking in the barrel of my own gun - he's got it in both hands one foot away from my stomach.