Gun Control Laws Quotes

[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.

I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control! If you're going to own a gun, you have an obligation to know what you're doing with it. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. So I support waiting periods and training requirements for gun ownership, and I like the idea that is shouldn't be incredibly easy to get guns.

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.

I am all for controlling guns.

It [gun control] is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it.

How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

I don’t think there is a Constitutional right for individuals to bear arms. But I’m against gun control. So there!

Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.

We will ban all handguns from peoples’ homes.

I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.

If gun control worked, the District of Columbia would be the safest place in America.

I've always found it very difficult to understand the laws as far as nudity in America - how some things are pornographic and some things are not pornographic. It's against the law to go topless on the beach, but you can go buy a gun. That just seems so absurd to me.

A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.

You can have 90% of the people for gun control, but the National Rifle Association will still prevailed. They go out and work harder.

Now there's a seven-day waiting period to buy a gun. Who can stay mad that long?

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

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.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

If the U.S. refused to take part in the U.N.'s international gun registry, other nations could potentially ban their domestic firearm manufacturers from exporting firearms to the United States.

Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.