David Hogg Quotes

We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety.

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

I support the Second Amendment just like everybody else. It's not about taking guns away. It's about doing very simple things that will save lives.

Not a single federal dollar should be used for states or cities efforts to target law-abiding gun owners.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

I am all for controlling guns.

[Referring to gun control:] You've got to protect your legitimate sportsman and hunter, but by God, you've got to protect your police officers too.

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

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Let’s not sacrifice the lives of our children to the 2nd Amendment

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation.

When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should allow guns in day care centers, but they're protecting themselves by not allowing guns in their workplace, that would be in that category of lunatics.

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We're a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we've got to figure out a way to keep America safe.

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.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.

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

It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.