Rahm Emanuel Quotes

I'm the original co-sponsor of an assault weapons ban.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

The assault weapon ban in this country should be reinstated.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

I think that there should be an assault weapons ban.

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in America. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.

I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

I supported the assault weapon ban.

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

Assault weapons ban reintroduced.

You have deranged people throughout the country unfort unately, and they are part of the problem. …I see no reason to have a Bushmaster (assault weapon) in the hands of a deranged person.

Once they ban rifles, they're gone forever.

We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.

Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can't do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can't protect themselves.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.