David Hogg Quotes

Do we really need to arm our citizens with machine guns or semiautomatic weapons? And don't we need to make sure that people who do own guns are qualified to own them?

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.

If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.

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

Guns are not a defense. Guns are a risk.

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

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

We take responsibility for being firearm owners. We take responsibility for whose hands those guns get into.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

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

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.

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.

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.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

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've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

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.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

I'm not comfortable around guns.

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

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.