Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

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.

Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation's gun laws.

President Obama, under your leadership, we do need guns to keep us safe.

When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

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.

I'm a lifetime member of the NRA.

Gun Control? You control your gun, and I’ll control mine.

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.

I’m the NRA.

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.

As soon as the word “guns” enters any political discussion, all rationality goes out the window.

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

The real firearms argument is not a historical dispute about revolutionary America but a political one about 21st century America.

An armed society is a polite society.

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with [ordinary] weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming..

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

President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

I don't understand how any black person can tell me that they're not pro-gun.

I have a unique lens on how the extreme priorities of the NRA's leaders are dangerous for America, Atlanta and communities of color.

We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.