Quotes About Firearms

I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?

Everyone carried guns. It was difficult to determine who was male and who was female.

Logan glanced at the clock on the cooker: nearly five minutes fast. The room was bathed in the pale orange glow of the overcast sky, the back garden a jungle of silhouettes and shadows through the window. He filled the kettle, then poured half of it out, before sticking it on to boil. The growing rumble drowned out the babble on his Airwave handset as DI Bell got his firearms team into place.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.

More than safeguarding someone's life, firearms safeguard the freedom of a people.

But what you do sense, what is unmistakable, is a rising tide of frustration and anger and violence, born partly of the greater familiarity the poor today have with the rich, their faces pressed to that clear window on wealth afforded by ubiquitous television, and partly of the change in mentality that results from an outward shift in the supply curve for firearms.

I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.

Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

I support the work of the NRA. I'm a member of the NRA.

Mental illness, hate and anger exist everywhere, but in America too often it comes armed.

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence anywhere else but America.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.

Everyone agrees that there are individuals who are seriously mentally ill and should not have guns.

That was where Graham lost his faith in .38's.

Gun control zealots compare the United States and England to show that murder rates are lower where restrictions on ownership of firearms are more severe. But you could just as easily compare Switzerland and Germany, the Swiss having lower murder rates than the Germans, even though gun ownership is three times higher in Switzerland. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland.

And he'd just been congratulating himself on teaching her not to use a knife; now he had to worry about firearms!