Mike DeWine Quotes

A key initiative that was launched was Project Triggerlock, which targeted for federal prosecution violent felons who illegally possessed guns. It used our very strong federal gun laws to put those people away for a long period of time, a resolution that we couldn't get from many of the state systems.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

What Labor has said very clearly is that there should be up to life sentences for people who traffic in guns.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

Theft of a firearm should be punished as a felony, plain and simple.

Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

One way to reduce crime and save lives is to target criminals who use guns with tough mandatory minimums.

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?

We must institute reasonable, common-sense limits, such as barring those with a history of mental instability, those with a history of violent crime or adjudged dangerous and subject to restraining orders, and those whose names have been placed on a terrorist watch list from owning weapons.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

You can have bans on assault weapons or whatever weapons you wish, and it's not going to protect from a violent person.

If we are going to be serious about enforcing the law, we have to have a background record check system to make sure that people don't get weapons who shouldn't.

People who are going to do us harm are never going to register guns. Terrorists, you believe they're going to register guns? Why, no. Goodness, alive, are you crazy?

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.

Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.

While law enforcement officers are working hard in Illinois to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, they face a nearly impossible task because of weak gun laws in surrounding states.

Terrorists don't heed 'gun-free' signs.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.