Jeff Cooper Quotes

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

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

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

I'm a gun owner.

I believe the gun has no power at all.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

We all know the NRA's position: guns don't kill people—grapes do.

I see no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon.

Like automobiles, guns should require mandatory insurance policies.

If abortion is different because it’s about life and death, so too, potentially, are guns, yet we seem positively loath to examine people’s reasons for wanting to own them.... And unlike abortion, guns kill more than 32,000 actually existing people every year.

Our whole society controls how much you can drink, how many pills you can buy; we have controls we accept on everything else in this society - except guns. Those things are all acceptable to us. But with guns, most people will not even discuss restrictions.

No one should be allowed to purchase more than two firearms a month.

If you're too dangerous to buy an airplane ticket, you're too dangerous to buy an assault weapon. And, when we talk about the Second Amendment - I support the Second Amendment - but the Second Amendment was created and designed to prevent tyranny and not to encourage terror.

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of thousands of Americans each year.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

The gun lobby whips up people and makes them believe that President Obama or I are coming for their guns. Well, that's ridiculous. And he's said it, I have said it. But we do want to save lives by keeping a gun from somebody who shouldn't have it.

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.