Jean Kennedy Smith Quotes

I am all for controlling guns.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

Gun Control? You control your gun, and I’ll control mine.

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.

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

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

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety.

The Second Amendment is very important, but we have to have commonsense gun safety.

When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

The only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers

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

I virtually never use the term "gun control" because that would make us anti-gun. Everything we touch is unpopular and controversial.

You can’t take the hard-line NRA position. That’s a loser.

My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.