Katie McGinty Quotes

Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.

No one law or set of laws will end horrific acts of violence, but Congress has an obligation to take action and make sure that terrorists and bad guys don't have easy access to guns in our country.

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

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

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

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

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

Not a single federal dollar should be used for states or cities efforts to target law-abiding gun owners.

If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.

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.

From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

It's fine to have armed guards, but don't then tell everyone else they can't own a gun.

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.

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

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

I am all for controlling guns.

Under a firearms policy largely dictated by the National Rifle Association, people on terrorist watch lists can and do buy guns in the United States without difficulty. Congress decided, over the objections of the FBI, that government records of who bought guns should not be kept for more than twenty-four hours.