Dick Cavett Quotes

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 am all for controlling guns.

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

We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety.

No one I hang out with thinks that a random person on the street should be able to buy a machine gun.

I support the Second Amendment. But for God's sake - how can we knowingly pass bills and laws that are in direct opposition to saving kids' lives?

We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines.

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

When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

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.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

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.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.

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

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.

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

No studies have been done to link gun legislation to declining firearms-related deaths, but you can draw your own conclusions.

Arguments premised upon the Federal 2nd Amendment ... have never prevented regulation of firearms.

[Referring to gun control:] You've got to protect your legitimate sportsman and hunter, but by God, you've got to protect your police officers too.

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.