Bob Barr Quotes

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Gun control is not the answer. Culture control is the answer.

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.

We must get rid of all the guns.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

Where there are sick people and easy access to guns, there will be terror …. Maybe we should rethink this whole gun control thing.

There are too many guns too easily accessible to kids, and we have to do something about it …. We no longer live in a society where mass murder … is unthinkable.

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

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

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

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

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

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

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.

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.

Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.