Joycelyn Elders Quotes

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

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

England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States...23,000 deaths from handguns. But - there's no connection.

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

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.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.

Easy access to guns is one of the biggest factors in violent crime.

All guns are capable of killing and maiming. It follows that all guns are a threat to public safety.

Gun manufacturers are not selling guns to kill people, but they don't care if they kill people.

The states with the highest proportion of gun ownship have the highest death rate from guns.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

Background checks applied universally and nationally would take millions of illegal guns off the streets of our cities.

Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state - and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws.

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

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.