Wayne LaPierre Quotes

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I'm a gun owner.

I got my first handgun license when I was 22.

I don't think you need an AK-47 [assault rifle] to defend your family.

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

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

Bad people will find a way to do harm, whether it's homemade explosives, illegal weapons, or flying planes into buildings. Restricting law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms is not the answer.

If you look at Paris, they didn't have guns and they were slaughtered. If you look at what happened in California, they didn't have guns, they were slaughtered. They could've protected themselves if they had guns.

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

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.

Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

I believe the gun has no power at all.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.