Dan Carter Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

You know, there's a great discussion - I think that groups like the NRA have been really, really good at trying to divide us by fears, that the ideas that, well, Democrats want to take everybody's guns away. And that's not true.

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

The NRA isn't a boogeyman, it's a grass-roots organization made up of 5 million law-abiding Second Amendment supporters.

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.

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.

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

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

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

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.

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don't understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes.

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

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.

The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?