Jesse Ventura Quotes

I am all for controlling guns.

I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody.

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

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

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

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

We don't deed more assault rifles on our streets right now.

Nothing in the opinion, should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

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

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.

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.

While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.

We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines.

I think that there should be an assault weapons ban.

We need to digitize gun-sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun-show loopholes and straw-man purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.

I do support and believe in the Second Amendment. But I do think we need more background checks rather than less.

The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.

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 know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.