Elizabeth Esty Quotes

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

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

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

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

We must get rid of all the guns.

With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.

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.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

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.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

America should affirm and establish that in no instance should the guns go in advance of the perfect right.

I see no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon.

Guns are not a defense. Guns are a risk.

An armed society is a polite society.

We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.