Gun Debate Quotes

Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.

We all know the NRA's position: guns don't kill people—grapes do.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

In the litany of issues that separate the two Americas - one more conservative and one more liberal, increasingly as opposed and intractable and opaque to each other as the Palestinians and Israelis - none is so fierce, precise, inviolable and confounding to the other side as guns.

I would like to live long enough to see the day when people talk about which guns are the safest.

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

As soon as the word “guns” enters any political discussion, all rationality goes out the window.

The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

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.

If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

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

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.