Hillary Clinton Quotes

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

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

Show me a man who doesn't want his gun registered and I'll show you a man ought not to have a gun.

If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

What I would like to see is for people to come together and say: Of course we're going to protect and defend the Second Amendment. But we're going to do it in a way that tries to save some of these 33,000 lives that we lose every year.

I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control.

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

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.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash — for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you

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.

Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?

We wouldn't take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn't take a gun away from anyone.

I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.

Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.

We're not saying 'no guns.' We are saying we want to regulate semi-automatic weapons and the accessories that make them fully automatic because fully automatic weapons are banned.

This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.