Steve Largent Quotes

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

I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

We feel in the Department of Justice that we represent the people of the country who demand that some effort be made to reach the firearms evil.

When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

I don't get debate agains guns at all. Because we have it after every mass shooting. And now a terror attack. And the proposals that are talked about almost always have nothing to do with this specific event.

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

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

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control.

I want to protect our constitutional right to bear arms in a legal and thoughtful way with background checks that also don't want people to get shot and murdered, but it doesn't mean that you can't own a gun.

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

When it comes to stop-and-frisk, you know, Hillary Clinton is talking about takes guns away.Well, I'm talking about taking guns away from gangs and people that use them.

They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.