Radley Balko Quotes

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

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

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.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

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.

Easy access to guns is one of the biggest factors in violent crime.

The United States homicide rate without guns is higher than most European country’s homicide rates including guns.

Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

If you ignore the homicides, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.

You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.

The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the goblins do not know who is armed and who is not, their professional enthusiasm declines. Now that Britain has made sure (insofar as any law can so insure) that everybody is disarmed, the streets arem given back to the bad kid with the baseball bat. We hope they are satisfied.

I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.