Walter Kirn Quotes

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.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

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

I believe the gun has no power at all.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

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

Guns are not a defense. Guns are a risk.

Like automobiles, guns should require mandatory insurance policies.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

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

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

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

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

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.

If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.

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

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

We must get rid of all the guns.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

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.

The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.

I think guns are terrible.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.