Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence

Guns know no policy except destruction.

Handguns are a public health issue.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

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 don't deed more assault rifles on our streets right now.

Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

Gun violence is a problem that this country should be addressing.

Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can't do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can't protect themselves.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

We have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them.