Mark Meadows Quotes

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

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

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.

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.

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

We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

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.

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.

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

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

These gun-free areas are actually - they're free-shooting zones for people because they know that there won't be anybody there that can stop them.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?