Walter Kirn Quotes

It's fine to have armed guards, but don't then tell everyone else they can't own a gun.

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

Arguments premised upon the Federal 2nd Amendment ... have never prevented regulation of firearms.

The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution was not meant to make efficient killing machines out of drug dealers and other criminals.

These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.

We wouldn't take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn't take a gun away from anyone.

Not a single federal dollar should be used for states or cities efforts to target law-abiding gun owners.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

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

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

Gun regulation is historically as American as is gun possession.

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.

[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.

We are law-abiding citizens who have to leave their weapons in their car when they take their family our for a nice dinner … this is just a major inconvenience.

…while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns

We will never get anywhere in fighting the pistol until we convert public opinion to the belief that the revolver has no value as a weapon of defense.

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation.

The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.