Lucy McBath Quotes

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

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

Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation's gun laws.

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

I have an A rating from the NRA.

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

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.

The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

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

I am in support of the NRA position on 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.

The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world.

The American Rifle Association is one of the most powerful lobbies in America. But it wouldn't be possible unless they had the support of people.

A man with a gun may be a "potential murderer" and the man who wants to destroy it may likewise be a "potential murderer," but in neither case is he such an enemy of society because of his mere possession of or opposition to firearms.

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with [ordinary] weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming..

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

The NRA - they are a paper tiger.

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

For years, I've gone on television and made the case for the Second Amendment - the right to bear arms. I've pointed out that criminals don't follow gun laws, and I've defended the NRA and its members - law-abiding gun owners like me who have nothing to do with mass shootings or violent gun crimes.

President Obama, under your leadership, we do need guns to keep us safe.

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.