Linda Sanchez Quotes

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

We must get rid of all the guns.

I'm someone who's seen firsthand the effects of gun violence. I've had to carry a gun to do my job in the war. And I know as well as anyone that this violence has no place on our streets, in our schools, in our concerts, so we've got to do something about it.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.

I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

The vast majority of Americans are asking for common-sense legislation to protect our families, our friends, and our communities from gun violence.

I think there's an incredible amount of people who know not only what we're feeling but know people who have lost their lives to gun violence.

We now know that gun-free zones, though well intentioned, do not prevent attacks.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

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

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

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

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

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

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.