Dick Durbin Quotes

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.

Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

I constantly hear from residents throughout my community about the need for common sense action in Congress to reduce gun violence.

I support the Second Amendment just like everybody else. It's not about taking guns away. It's about doing very simple things that will save lives.

The vast majority of Americans are asking for common-sense legislation to protect our families, our friends, and our communities from gun violence.

This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.

I came to Washington to stand up for the people who put their trust in me and to ensure the safety of the families and communities in Georgia's Sixth, and across our nation, by keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

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.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.

I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.

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.

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

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should allow guns in day care centers, but they're protecting themselves by not allowing guns in their workplace, that would be in that category of lunatics.

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

We've had enough with loopholes in our gun laws that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.

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.

If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.