Mike Quigley Quotes

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.

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here..

It's clear to me that the NRA isn't going to stop trying to meddle in making this a safer state.

We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

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.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

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.

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

The real firearms argument is not a historical dispute about revolutionary America but a political one about 21st century America.

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.

It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.

You know, there's a great discussion - I think that groups like the NRA have been really, really good at trying to divide us by fears, that the ideas that, well, Democrats want to take everybody's guns away. And that's not true.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

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.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.