Gun Ownership Laws Quotes

We are for reasonable and sensible gun ownership so long as it's responsible in the way that criminals can't get it.

There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.

A gun saved my life. That's why I won't let my Second Amendment right be taken away from me.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

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

In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police.

This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.

If the framers of the Constitution had any way to predict what our society would look like today, they would think it ridiculous to see the proliferation of guns.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

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.

As long as there have been guns in America there have been regulations governing their use and storage. Without government direction there would have been no body of Minutemen to muster on the town greens at Lexington and Concord. If the Founders had imbibed the strong gun rights ideology that drives today's gun debate we would all be drinking tea and singing, "God save our gracious Queen.

In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.

I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

Guns are part of the American identity.

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

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.

I don't think you need an AK-47 [assault rifle] to defend your family.

If you live in America, you need a gun, and I am not very fast with a gun, so I think I would walk out very quickly.

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.