Chris Murphy Quotes

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

I can't influence or impact where the NRA goes and spends money.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

One of the many embarrassing truths about the debate over the right to bear arms that neither side wishes to admit is that gun rights ideology is the illegitimate and spurned child of gun control.

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

I virtually never use the term "gun control" because that would make us anti-gun. Everything we touch is unpopular and controversial.

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

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

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

When I was growing up the National Rifle Association was gun safety and hunting organization. Now it's nothing more than to try to divide people.

You know, there's a great discussion - I think that groups like the NRA have been really, really good at trying to divide us by fears, that the ideas that, well, Democrats want to take everybody's guns away. And that's not true.

We need strong gun laws. How can people even ask a question about it? Gun control is so important.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

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.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

Guns are part of the American identity.

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

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.

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.

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.