Gray Davis Quotes

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with [ordinary] weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming..

I don’t want American citizens killing American citizens.

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.'

The last thing we want is more military style assault weapons on our streets …. When the family gun becomes an assault weapon then that is the gun that will be stolen.

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

I don't see any need for citizens to own semi-automatic assault rifles, any more than I do nuclear weapons. Those aren't self-defense weapons.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash — for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you

Firearms are a luxury.

An armed society is a polite society.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.

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.

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

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.

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

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

The only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers

One of the many embarrassing truths about the debate over the right to bear arms that neither side wishes to admit is that gun rights ideology is the illegitimate and spurned child of gun control.

I do not consider firearms as weapons. When I think weapon, I mean bazooka.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe

A man with a gun may be a "potential murderer" and the man who wants to destroy it may likewise be a "potential murderer," but in neither case is he such an enemy of society because of his mere possession of or opposition to firearms.