Killer Mike Quotes

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

Ultimately, the NRA has maybe five million members. We are a nation of 320 million-plus, and it's time we call out those who stand on the wrong side of history and spout the same old NRA talking points.

If you want to change our gun laws, the best thing you can do is find a group that speaks to you and get involved.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

Guns are part of the American identity.

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.

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.

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.

Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it - but I mean actual change.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

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

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

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.

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

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

Gun ownership. The Bill of Rights should be written according to what's appropriate now, not two centuries ago.

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.

The National Rifle Association has an extensive enemies list, and I am, frankly, insulted that I am not on it.

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

It should be a badge of shame to have an A-rating from the NRA.

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

When I was growing up the National Rifle Association was gun safety and hunting organization. Now it's nothing more than to try to divide people.