Gun Control Quotes - Page 8

• Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.

  Jesse Jackson

  Airplane, Blow, Gun

  12 Copy quote
• 

  The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

  James Monroe

  Gun, Self, Presidential

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

  108 Copy quote

  Show source

• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously present. Let us take the guns away from the people.

  Patrick V. Murphy

  Strong, Gun, People

  6 Copy quote

• A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.

  James Madison

  Army, Gun, Government

  16 Copy quote

• This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, House, Dying

  19 Copy quote

• 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

  Gun, People, Rifles

  16 Copy quote

• Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Gun, Government

  81 Copy quote

• 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 which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Tyrants, Criminals

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.

  162 Copy quote

  Show source

• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  Bob Barr

  Beautiful, Country, Gun

  16 Copy quote

• When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.

  George Mason

  Men, Gun, America

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Firsts, Remember

  60 Copy quote

• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Party, Gun

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

  H. G. Wells

  Hate, Gun, Order

  10 Copy quote

• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Guy, Important

  National Rifle Association Press Conference Announcing "National School Shield" Program Following the Newton, Connecticut Shootings, delivered 21 December 2012

  96 Copy quote

  Show source

• To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

  Karl Marx

  Gun, Empires, Firsts

  17 Copy quote

• 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 can to disarm this state.

  Unknown

  Military, Believe, Gun

  10 Copy quote

• The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Gun, Kuwait

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Gun, Criminals, Population

  55 Copy quote

• Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Gun, Order, Want

  "Surgeon General’s Warning" by Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

  George H. W. Bush

  Freedom, Gun, People

  52 Copy quote

• [The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

  Joel Barlow

  Gun, Men, Hands

  18 Copy quote

• The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

  Joel Barlow

  Revenge, Gun, Government

  Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.24

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Gun, Impact, Needs

  17 Copy quote

• Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

  John Fugelsang

  Gun, Assault Weapons, President

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2013

  33 Copy quote

  Show source