John Hickenlooper 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.

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

Let’s not sacrifice the lives of our children to the 2nd Amendment

Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

I support the Second Amendment just like everybody else. It's not about taking guns away. It's about doing very simple things that will save lives.

We need to digitize gun-sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun-show loopholes and straw-man purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system.

I came to Washington to stand up for the people who put their trust in me and to ensure the safety of the families and communities in Georgia's Sixth, and across our nation, by keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

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.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

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.

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.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

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

I'm not comfortable around guns.