Steve Kanaly Quotes

Honestly, it's alright that people are buying more guns. I just care that they are being safe individuals.

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

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

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

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.

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

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

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

I virtually never use the term "gun control" because that would make us anti-gun. Everything we touch is unpopular and controversial.

Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

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

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

I join President Obama and the vast majority of Chicagoans who are tired of waiting for Washington to get serious about gun violence.

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.

My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to stem gun violence, and Romney's answer was you should marry someone.

We take responsibility for being firearm owners. We take responsibility for whose hands those guns get into.

I would like to live long enough to see the day when people talk about which guns are the safest.

When I hold a gun, I know how to be sensible about it. I'm not holding it to wild out or just to shoot somebody because I'm mad at him. There's responsibility in buying that gun, and part of it is dealing with it like a man, and not dealing with it like an idiot, and getting behind iron bars for unnecessary reasons.