James Langevin Quotes

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.

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate - let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law - that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

I support the Second Amendment. But for God's sake - how can we knowingly pass bills and laws that are in direct opposition to saving kids' lives?

We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines.

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

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.

High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

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

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

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.

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

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

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

Let’s not sacrifice the lives of our children to the 2nd Amendment

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here..

Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation.