Mandy Patinkin Quotes

Guns are not a defense. Guns are a risk.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

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.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

Easy access to guns is one of the biggest factors in violent crime.

All guns are capable of killing and maiming. It follows that all guns are a threat to public safety.

What better way to help health prevention than to ban all handguns.

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

We understand that in an open and democratic and free society, you cannot make yourself impenetrable, especially when there are more guns than there are people in the United States today.

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

We must get rid of all the guns.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

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.

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.