Jeannette Rankin Quotes

If you want to own the power of God at your waist belt, you should have a background check. If you are a domestic violence abuser, convicted, you should not have a gun where you could snuff out the lives of your loved ones.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

In the hands of fiends, guns will kill you. In your hands, they protect against such fiends.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be safer selling my guns than reserving them for 'Tombstone II.'

If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

I believe the gun has no power at all.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting your home; you're out to hunt people.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

We all know the NRA's position: guns don't kill people—grapes do.

I don't think you need an AK-47 [assault rifle] to defend your family.

Self-defense through gunslinging is a delusion .... Those who carry guns for self-protection keep widening the circle of violence.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

To stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun.