Sarah Brady Quotes

Pat Toomey has worked to allow suspected terrorists to buy guns in this country, and that is just an outrageous position. Of all the kind of tough issues, this one should not be a tough call.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

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.

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

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

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

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.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

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

No studies have been done to link gun legislation to declining firearms-related deaths, but you can draw your own conclusions.

We feel in the Department of Justice that we represent the people of the country who demand that some effort be made to reach the firearms evil.

Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.

There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.

We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

Not a single federal dollar should be used for states or cities efforts to target law-abiding gun owners.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

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

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?