Gun Control Quotes

364 Gun Control quotes by 198 unique authors

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… — Gary Kleck
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible… — Unknown Author
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of… — Don Kates
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because… — Cesare Beccaria
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free. — A. E. van Vogt
To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst… — Unknown Author
According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12… — Gary Kleck
During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times,… — John R. Lott Jr.
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to… — James Bovard
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway… — Bob Schaffer
Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them. — Walter F. Mondale
The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our… — Suzanna Hupp
If I could have banned them all...I would have! — Dianne Feinstein
We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns. — Rahm Emanuel
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would… — Charley Reese
It would also be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the… — Antonin Scalia
I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns. — Howard Metzenbaum
The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works! — Unknown Author
There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation. — Unknown Author
I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I… — Michael Dukakis
If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr.… — Dianne Feinstein
If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravate… — John R. Lott Jr.
No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. — William Rawle
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses… — Alex Kozinski
Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not keep Hennard from… — Suzanna Hupp

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