John Leo Quotes

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

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

Too many policy decisions over the years have been made by men in closed rooms not thinking about the dead bodies. When bullets fly, people die. Pictures ram that message home.

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

I think guns are terrible.

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 gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.

We are literally out of our minds to allow 2.5 million new weapons to be manufactured every year for the sole purpose of killing people.

We have had over 400,000 Americans killed in our country by guns since JFK and Martin Luther King were. That is more Americans dead than were killed in WWII.

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

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..

28,000 people were killed in the world last year by terrorists. Every death is a tragedy but we should keep this in perspective, After all, over 30,000 people last year were victims of gun death in the United States alone.

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.

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

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.

If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.