Kurt Schrader Quotes

The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.

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.

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

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.

Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

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

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

I constantly hear from residents throughout my community about the need for common sense action in Congress to reduce gun violence.

The vast majority of Americans are asking for common-sense legislation to protect our families, our friends, and our communities from gun violence.

We need commonsense measures, gun control measures, that save lives. I think that it is important that we keep the firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and criminals and terrorists. And I also think, by strengthening our background check system and expanding mental health treatment, we can do that as well.

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

It is absolutely absurd that someone who is deemed unsafe to get on an airplane is allowed to buy a gun in America. It's truly absurd.

We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

I do support and believe in the Second Amendment. But I do think we need more background checks rather than less.

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.

Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

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

I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.