Gun Control Quotes

364 Gun Control quotes by 198 unique authors

Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An… — Edward Abbey
If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today,… — John Dingell
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of… — Robert A. Heinlein
Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities… — Mike Royko
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
[President Clinton] boasts about 186,000 people denied firearms under the Brady Law rules. The Brady Law has been in force for three years. In that… — Charlton Heston
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… — Thomas Sowell
She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley. — Barack Obama
I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control. — John McCain
All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars. — Charles Schumer
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be… — Mao Zedong
The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against… — Walter E. Williams
That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace… — Jeff Cooper
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want… — William S. Burroughs
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms. — Thomas Sowell
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. — Thomas Jefferson
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed… — Jeff Cooper
I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish… — Hugh Downs
Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than… — L. Neil Smith
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and… — John Ashcroft
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with… — Malcolm Wallop
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission! — Charles Schumer
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us… — Andrew Ford
One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear… — Jeff Cooper
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a… — John Silber

Who Wrote These Gun Control Quotes

198 authors contributed a total of 364 Gun Control Quotes, led by these top contributors: