Michael D. Barnes 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.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

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

While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.

I would like to live long enough to see the day when people talk about which guns are the safest.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

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.

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

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

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.

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.

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.

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.

The gun culture that is so negative for America will never be a part of the culture of Australia.

The last thing we want is more military style assault weapons on our streets …. When the family gun becomes an assault weapon then that is the gun that will be stolen.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

We all know the NRA's position: guns don't kill people—grapes do.

We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.

We will never get anywhere in fighting the pistol until we convert public opinion to the belief that the revolver has no value as a weapon of defense.

Let’s not sacrifice the lives of our children to the 2nd Amendment

Guns are not a defense. Guns are a risk.