Carolyn McCarthy Quotes

We must work to stop gun violence. I’ve consoled far too many parents whose children were taken too soon. We need to come together across party, racial, and religious lines. It’s time to take responsibility for making sure our babies grow up.

There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, but it's something you do much later.

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

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.

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.

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.

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

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

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

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

Where there are sick people and easy access to guns, there will be terror …. Maybe we should rethink this whole gun control thing.

I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

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

We have more gun dealers than McDonald's outlets.

Easy access to guns is one of the biggest factors in violent crime.

We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.

There are too many guns too easily accessible to kids, and we have to do something about it …. We no longer live in a society where mass murder … is unthinkable.

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

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.

Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.

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

It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.