Michael D. Barnes Quotes

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.