Collateral Quote by Daniel D. Polsby

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…

— Michael Steele

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding…

— Thomas Sowell

The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access…

— Alan Keyes

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…

— James Bovard

When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

— Adam Cohen

Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not…

— J. Neil Schulman

Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their…

— Sheldon Richman

Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun used by…

— David Icke

To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product.…

— Josh Sugarmann

The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson,…

— George Jonas

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…

— Rand Paul

An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not…

— James Taranto