Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

Ensuring guns are out of the reach of children and holding those accountable who are irresponsible is the first step in reducing firearm accidents.

We must work to stop gun violence. I’ve consoled far too many parents whose children were taken too soon. We need to come together across party, racial, and religious lines. It’s time to take responsibility for making sure our babies grow up.

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

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.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

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

We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.

We have bills that make it impossible for children to get into an aspirin bottle. Do my colleagues not think that we should do the same thing with a gun.

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

Having a firearm in your home, not only doesn’t protect you, but it puts you at 300 percent more risk that someone in your family will be killed in a homicide and 500 percent more likely that someone in your family will be killed by suicide…. The NRA didn’t like the fact that the research, very legitimate, high quality research, showed that having a gun in your home put’s you at more risk and it doesn’t protect you.

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

When it comes to our children, the most precious treasure God ever gives us, we protect them with a little sign that says, 'No guns allowed.'

I want President Obama to want to take your guns away. I don't trust you with your guns. I don't trust you to fire them safely. I don't trust you to store them safely. I don't trust your kids not to find them. I don't trust you not to get them stolen.

Pledge to ask if there is a gun where your kid visits or plays. Pledge to protect your children from harm's way.

The true gun safety advocates, as they have been for centuries, are the millions of members of the NRA and other training organizations.

Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.

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.

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

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.