Joe Manchin Quotes

I have an A rating from the NRA.

Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

I'm a gun owner.

I believe the gun has no power at all.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

We all know the NRA's position: guns don't kill people—grapes do.

Self defense—a reason which is not accepted in Great Britain as a reason for owning a gun.

If abortion is different because it’s about life and death, so too, potentially, are guns, yet we seem positively loath to examine people’s reasons for wanting to own them.... And unlike abortion, guns kill more than 32,000 actually existing people every year.

Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.

The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of thousands of Americans each year.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

I hate guns.

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

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.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.