Gun Control Quote Quotes

Personally, I think we should remove the word "shooting" from the vernacular. It's an ugly, biased word that somehow creates the assumption that a gun was involved. Let's go with 'Interpersonal Ballistic Event' (IBE). ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. ~ Larry Elder

"Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals? ~ Mike Gunn

We would need less gun control if we had better birth control. ~ Richard Jeni

Saying gun control hurts our freedom is a false argument amounting to propaganda. Gun laws don't curtail freedom any more than speed limits or seat belts. You still get to drive your car and have guns, we're just trying to save lives as you do. ~ DaShanne Stokes

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control. ~ Jesse Ventura

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

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws. ~ Juan Williams

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. ~ Eliot Spitzer

The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous. ~ Chuck Todd

Why ban guns? Let's give everyone rocket launchers! What could possibly go wrong? ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control. ~ William J. Clinton

I don't support any gun control legislation. ~ Mitt Romney

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction. ~ CrimethInc.

Anybody who's in favor of gun control is a fucking moron. ~ Jackie Mason

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common ... ~ Charley Reese

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. ~ Michael Badnarik

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders. ~ Chris Rock

Laws can't control the lawless. ~ Wayne LaPierre

I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe. ~ Colleen Hanabusa

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them. ~ John McGinnis

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control. ~ Si Robertson

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. ~ Thomas Sowell

If the GOP truly cared about saving lives, they'd stop blocking gun violence research. ~ DaShanne Stokes

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. ~ Jackson Katz

My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. ~ Jerry Brown

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. ~ Gary Kleck

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

There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence ~ Kim Campbell

Just a thought for all you God-fearin', gun-lovin', Bible-thumpin' 2nd Amendment patriots. If it turns out Heaven's a gun-free zone, what's plan B??? ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. ~ Joe Wurzelbacher

Gun Control is mind control. ~ L. Neil Smith

The issue isn't gun control but state control
obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties. ~ George Jonas

The downside to gun control is genocide. ~ John Ross

New Rule: Gun-control people have to stop pressuring Starbucks to ban guns. I want my gun nuts overcaffeinated, twitchy, and accident-prone. That way, the problem will take care of itself. Plus, if just one gun nut kills just one pseudo-intellectual writing a screenplay-slash-graphic-novel on his iPad, natural selection is doing its job. ~ Bill Maher

It's not the gun you should be scared of - it's the crazy man with the gun ~ Jennifer McMahon

Guns make losers feel like winners. That's why people who suck at life don't want to give up their guns. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid. ~ Charley Reese

We don't have a gun problem; we have a math problem: ZERO GUNS = ZERO GUN-RELATED DEATHS. ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem. ~ Steven Milloy

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections. ~ Wayne LaPierre

I'm sick of all you ammo-phobes being intolerant of my gun. ~ Patrick Henry

C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada. ~ Sharon Carstairs

If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it's not that you are anti-gun. You'll need the police's guns to take away other people's guns. So you're very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous ... ) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions. ~ Stefan Molyneux

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. ~ Alan Keyes

One man with a gun can control a hundred without one. ~ Vladimir Lenin

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy. ~ Juan Williams

This is not a book about race, though the disproportionate number of those who fell that day were black, and certain racial themes are unavoidable. It is not a book that sets out to compare the United States unfavorably with Britain, though it is written by a Briton to whom gun culture is alien. Finally, it is not a book about gun control; it is a book made possible by the absence of gun control. ~ Gary Younge

If guns don't kill people, why do mass killers arm themselves with guns? ~ DaShanne Stokes

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. ~ Jeffrey Toobin

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats. ~ John Dingell

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. ~ Michael Badnarik

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming. ~ Niger Innis

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

The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence ... ~ Joe Lieberman

It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control. ~ Michael Coren

They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible. ~ Dave Kopel

The NRA brainwashes you into believing that you need to buy a bunch of guns, to protect yourself from all the people with guns. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so. ~ Don Feder

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are. ~ Rand Paul

Why do Second Amendment advocates assume every time a well-meaning legislator suggests common-sense gun control legislation, politicians must be coming for our guns? ~ Mark M. Bello

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come. ~ Joe Biden

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. ~ Anna Quindlen

Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing. ~ Mark Levin

Why ban guns? Let's give everyone a rocket launcher! What could possibly go wrong? ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms, ~ Steve Largent

If it were up to me we'd ban them all. ~ Mel Reynolds

Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you know, the guns. ~ Stephen Colbert

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals ... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. ~ Howard Metzenbaum

Although we've been authoritatively informed that a majority of Americans support a "pathway to citizenship," approximately five hundred times in the last two years alone, according to a quick Nexis search,18 that is a lie. This is part of the media's campaign to convince Americans they're nuts for preferring not to turn America into Mexico. Polls are irrelevant if you lie to the people being polled. Poll: Do you support commonsense gun safety or are you against it? Headline: MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT GUN CONTROL. But I hate gun control! Too late! You agreed to "commonsense gun safety" - that means gun control. ~ Ann Coulter

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up. ~ Rush Limbaugh

What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Before you're allowed to own a .44, your IQ should be higher than .44. ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. ~ Robert Dallek

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control. ~ Nora Dunn

Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship. ~ Stephen Halbrook

If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about? ~ Clint Smith

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby. ~ Michael Steele

To all the kids from the "special" reading class back in high school (the one where you tried to form words using wooden blocks)
PLEASE stop telling me that I can't blame an "inanimate object" for the off-the-hook gun violence in this country. YES! ... I CAN!!! I blame all the "inanimate objects" in Congress who refuse to pass sensible gun legislation because they're too chicken-shit to take on Wayne LaPierre and the gun lobby. ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

Do not fuck with gun nuts because they are nuts about their guns. ~ Bill Maher

In America, people with pre-existing mental health issues have access to firearms but not healthcare. Thanks, Republicans! ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Anyone can shoot a gun but the real power comes from non-violent means. ~ J.C. Phillips

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year. ~ Dianne Feinstein

I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home. ~ Ronald Reagan

Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to exploit the emotions of uninformed American people for political gain. ~ Walter E. Williams

Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one. ~ Andy Borowitz

I'm not anti-gun or pro-gun, but if you put a gun in your hand, you feel different. ~ Matt Servitto

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. ~ Larry Elder

Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem. ~ Gary Kleck

Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. ~ Cass Sunstein

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows. ~ Frank Lautenberg

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me. ~ Tyson Gay

America: Land of the free and home of the gun.
We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing. ~ Jonathan Heatt

But shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game? ~ Barack Obama

A quiet woman is a firearms with a silencer. ~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Nothing we're going to do is going to fundamentally alter or eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting ... ~ Joe Biden

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism. ~ Luke Scott

You don't need a weapon to protect yourself. ~ Bill Maher

When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York. ~ Thomas Sowell

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco ... ~ P. J. O'Rourke