John Mica Quotes

We wouldn't take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn't take a gun away from anyone.

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms

[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.

The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution was not meant to make efficient killing machines out of drug dealers and other criminals.

It makes no sense for the police of this country to be outgunned by criminals or for our citizens to live in fear of criminals ... armed with assault rifles.

If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand guns.

For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

Not a single federal dollar should be used for states or cities efforts to target law-abiding gun owners.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

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.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

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.

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

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.