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Quotes About Safety

I have eight guns. I do have a concealed weapons permit.
~ Carlos Beruff
Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
~ Bernice King
Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.
~ Herman Kahn
It's not a radical statement: all of us should agree that we want to make sure that weapons stay out of the hands of people that could use them to hurt others, especially after the tragedies we've seen in Charleston, Newtown, Wilkinsburg and too many other communities.
~ John Fetterman
I've had people say to me, 'Well, I enjoy going to the firing range and using the assault weapons.' But the pleasure derived from that compared to the horrendous damage that it can do, we believe that the damage warrants banning assault weapons.
~ Valerie Jarrett
I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
~ Douglas Feith
The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.
~ Mitchell Reiss
Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.
~ Jane D. Hull
I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
~ Karen Hughes
To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later.
~ Joseph Rotblat
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
~ John Ashcroft
And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.
~ Lawrence Eagleburger
We're not looking at banning all weapons.
~ Gary Ackerman
We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.
~ Michael Nutter
The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
~ Rachel Nichols
If we are going to be serious about enforcing the law, we have to have a background record check system to make sure that people don't get weapons who shouldn't.
~ Tim Kaine
I'll remind you that the West signed a deal with North Korea, said it would make the world a safer place, and, of course, all the words evaporated, and North Korea acquired nuclear weapons.
~ Naftali Bennett
I like the idea of federal employees licensed to carry weapons who are also heavily medicated; it just works for me on all sorts of levels.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.
~ Sherrod Brown
Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.
~ George Takei
We must continue working to build trust between communities and law enforcement. We must continue working to guarantee every person in this country equal justice under the law. And we must take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.
~ Loretta Lynch
There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.
~ Elizabeth Esty
Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?
~ Jeff Bridges