Dianne Feinstein Quotes

If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand guns.

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.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

[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.

All guns are capable of killing and maiming. It follows that all guns are a threat to public safety.

If people have assault weapons, they're going to use assault weapons.

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.

While law enforcement officers are working hard in Illinois to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, they face a nearly impossible task because of weak gun laws in surrounding states.

In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

Military-assault weapons have no place in civilian hands.

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

You can't have thousands of people being shot in a city, in a country that I happen to be president of. Maybe it's OK if somebody else is president.

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

You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, "Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?"

Because we allow handguns. When you know someone in the crowd might be packing a rod, it can't help but rush your timing.

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.

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.