Gun control Quotes · Page 7

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

— Ronald Reagan

Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.

— Janet Reno

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

— George Washington

The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!

— Dean Armstrong

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

— Ronald Reagan

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...

— William J. Clinton

The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.

— Josh Sugarmann

You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.

— Isoroku Yamamoto

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun…

— Ted Nugent

Not only do the Amy Schumers of the world and the gun control groups who support her fail to provide real gun…

— Katie Pavlich

I have lived in circumstances and in states where gun control was pushed, and I can tell you that it was not…

— Anna Paulina Luna

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united…

— George H. W. Bush

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights…

— John Adams

Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your…

— Joe Biden

There once was a man name Barack, Whose re-election came as a shock. He raised the taxes I pay, And then turned…

— Stephen Colbert

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

— Joseph Goebbels

America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's…

— Patti Smith

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents,…

— Barack Obama

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those…

— Charlton Heston

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise…

— Thomas Jefferson

The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not…

— Suzanna Hupp

It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake.…

— Adam Cohen

I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are…

— David Icke

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

— Chuck Todd

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

— Charley Reese

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

— Thomas Jefferson

To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.

— Sarah Brady

“And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.”

— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

— Stockwell Day

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

— Chuck Todd

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

— Ann Coulter

...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.

— Seneca the Younger

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

— Harvey Weinstein

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

— Noah Webster

“They have gun control in Cuba. They have Universal Healthcare in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?”

— Paul Harvey

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

— Dianne Feinstein

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

— Steve Largent

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

— Adolf Hitler

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

— Charles Schumer