Gun Control Quotes

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.

The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now."

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.

Gun Control is mind control.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

Just a thought for all you God-fearin', gun-lovin', Bible-thumpin' 2nd Amendment patriots. If it turns out Heaven's a gun-free zone, what's plan B???

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

America: Land of the free and home of the gun. We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

WTF is praying gonna do for Vegas? Apparently God likes mass shootings.

I think we may have reached the point where guns need to be confiscated from police officers.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.

I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks

Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.

GUNS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. WE ARE.

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.

I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.