Andre Maurou Quotes

An armed society is a polite society.

Self defense—a reason which is not accepted in Great Britain as a reason for owning a gun.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

Gun Control? You control your gun, and I’ll control mine.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms

This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government practice to discourage the use of personal defense weapons. Once public possession of one type of weapon is condoned for personal defense, the situation of weapon possession for protection starts to spiral upwards towards more powerful and dangerous weapons

[Referring to gun control:] You've got to protect your legitimate sportsman and hunter, but by God, you've got to protect your police officers too.

You know everybody romances the OK Corral and all of the things that happened [there]. But gun crimes were not very prevalent back then. Why? Because people carried guns.

I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

Bad people will find a way to do harm, whether it's homemade explosives, illegal weapons, or flying planes into buildings. Restricting law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms is not the answer.

President Obama, under your leadership, we do need guns to keep us safe.

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

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

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.