Diane Abbott Quotes

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

We are literally out of our minds to allow 2.5 million new weapons to be manufactured every year for the sole purpose of killing people.

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.

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

Elevate those guns a little lower.

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

We must get rid of all the guns.

With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.

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.

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

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.'

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

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

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.

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