Loretta Lynch Quotes

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.

America should affirm and establish that in no instance should the guns go in advance of the perfect right.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

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

[Referring to gun control:] You've got to protect your legitimate sportsman and hunter, but by God, you've got to protect your police officers too.

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.

We feel in the Department of Justice that we represent the people of the country who demand that some effort be made to reach the firearms evil.

Guns are not a defense. Guns are a risk.

There's a strong body of evidence that shows that the more diligent we are in ensuring that guns are in the appropriate hands, the safer our communities will be.

There's a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don't get help. But there's absolutely a gun control problem in the country.

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.

Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.

It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.

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

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

The vast majority of Americans are asking for common-sense legislation to protect our families, our friends, and our communities from gun violence.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

The reduction in gun violence President Obama claims to desperately want comes from law enforcement and prosecution, not from political rhetoric, lectures and sentence commutations for federal firearm law offenders and felons.

Those who commit gun crimes and those who enable them should know this: We're coming after you.

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

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

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.