Eliot Spitzer Quotes

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

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

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

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

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.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

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.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, but it's something you do much later.

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

It makes no sense for the police of this country to be outgunned by criminals or for our citizens to live in fear of criminals ... armed with assault rifles.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.

Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence.

There's zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that more guns leads to less gun crime.

I personally feel all guns ought to be registered.

One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.

The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.