Peter Paige Quotes

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.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

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.

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

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

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.

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

My belief is that guns are too easy to get in America. My belief is that the NRA has bought much of our congress, to the point that guns are actually the only unregulated consumer product in America. Think about that. It's stunning.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Guns are bad, I tell you.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?