Barack Obama Quotes

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

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.

We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

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

In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I will continue to fight to secure our borders and implement common sense policies aimed at reducing violence and the flow of illegal narcotics, firearms, people, and money across our borders.

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

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

Some problems, I believe, are unsolvable. We can't solve every maniac's determination to kill. And we can't populate every police precinct with perfect officers.

We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

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.

There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.

I'm someone who's seen firsthand the effects of gun violence. I've had to carry a gun to do my job in the war. And I know as well as anyone that this violence has no place on our streets, in our schools, in our concerts, so we've got to do something about it.

One the most efficient ways to combat gun violence is to prevent criminals from obtaining guns in the first place.

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

No one law or set of laws will end horrific acts of violence, but Congress has an obligation to take action and make sure that terrorists and bad guys don't have easy access to guns in our country.

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.