Molly Ivins Quotes

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

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

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

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

I think guns are terrible.

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

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..

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

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

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.'

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

The only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers

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

There are too many guns.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.

While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.

There's a deeper conversation to be had on guns, and just because I happen to know where I fall into that conversation doesn't mean that I don't want to have that conversation.