G. Edward Griffin Quotes

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

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.

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.

Guns don't kill, people do.

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.

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

I think guns are terrible.

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

No studies have been done to link gun legislation to declining firearms-related deaths, but you can draw your own conclusions.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

There's no way I'm not gonna have a gun, 'cause you just never know what'll go down in Atlanta. But I'd rather be able to protect myself and have the right, and not have to think about the consequences if I'm just trying to protect myself.

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

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

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.

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

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

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

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.