Wayne LaPierre Quotes

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

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

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses.

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

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. But I am friends with a lot of them, and most have armed guards with them or outside their homes.

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

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

It [gun control] is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it.

I want people to have the right to bear arms.

As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.

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