Richard Burr Quotes

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

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.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

One of the many embarrassing truths about the debate over the right to bear arms that neither side wishes to admit is that gun rights ideology is the illegitimate and spurned child of gun control.

You can have 90% of the people for gun control, but the National Rifle Association will still prevailed. They go out and work harder.

I virtually never use the term "gun control" because that would make us anti-gun. Everything we touch is unpopular and controversial.

You can’t take the hard-line NRA position. That’s a loser.

Obama, Bloomberg, and the national gun-ban media frequently exploit tragedy, using fear and lies to sell their agenda to non-gun owners, especially when it comes to election season. This is their traditional playbook.

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

Our laws must be fixed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. We have to keep speaking out for common-sense reforms. If we do, we can beat the gun lobby and save lives.

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

When the NRA is funding your campaign and giving you, you know, millions of dollars, are you likely to pass gun legislation or support it? No, and I think that's the reason why we see members of Congress refusing to do anything.

You know, there's a great discussion - I think that groups like the NRA have been really, really good at trying to divide us by fears, that the ideas that, well, Democrats want to take everybody's guns away. And that's not true.

We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.

Concealed carry reciprocity is a dream for the gun lobby lobbyists and a nightmare for public safety.

From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

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.

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.