Stephen King Quotes

I have an A rating from the NRA.

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence - laws the NRA's leadership has fought against relentlessly.

Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

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

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

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

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

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.

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

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

You can’t take the hard-line NRA position. That’s a loser.

Why can't we get real, sane, sensible gun legislation? Because the NRA, funded by Mossberg, Smith & Wesson, Glock and all the rest of the big dogs in the weapons industry, you know, spread around donations and won't let it move through.

In Colorado, we passed universal background checks and magazine limits. We need to do that nationally, and we need to raise the purchase age, extend waiting periods for gun purchases, fund gun violence research, pass red flag laws, and more - no matter how hard the gun lobby tries to block it.

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.

It's just unbelievable to me that the National Rifle Association has so much power.

Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms when you donate to NRA-ILA or the NRA Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.

What will be the final straw that finally forces Congress to at least open up formal debate - let alone introduce a bill, pass it, and have it signed into law - that curbs the scourge of gun deaths across the country?

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