Rahm Emanuel Quotes

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

America should affirm and establish that in no instance should the guns go in advance of the perfect right.

Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.

While law enforcement officers are working hard in Illinois to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, they face a nearly impossible task because of weak gun laws in surrounding states.

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

I constantly hear from residents throughout my community about the need for common sense action in Congress to reduce gun violence.

We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.