speakers

Looking at buying new speakers for my computer. Narrowed it down to 2 choices: Klipsch Promedia Ultra 5.1 Creative Gigaworks S750 Wattage and output don't matter to me, I won't be cranking these things too terribly loud anytime in the near future (cranky old people in the townhouse...

Could somebody translate this for me? It's in a Tom Clancy novel (The Bear and the Dragon) and while it is described as "Best said to somebody while you already have a gun pointed at them" an english translation isnt given. With that, it may be offensive, but I'm just curious. I've tried Google...