Ann Patchett Quotes

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

The gun lobby whips up people and makes them believe that President Obama or I are coming for their guns. Well, that's ridiculous. And he's said it, I have said it. But we do want to save lives by keeping a gun from somebody who shouldn't have it.

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

Not One More Death. Not One More Dollar

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

28,000 people were killed in the world last year by terrorists. Every death is a tragedy but we should keep this in perspective, After all, over 30,000 people last year were victims of gun death in the United States alone.

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

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds.

I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.

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

The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.