Jim Jordan Quotes

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans.

Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.

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

[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.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe

As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

Bad people will find a way to do harm, whether it's homemade explosives, illegal weapons, or flying planes into buildings. Restricting law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms is not the answer.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

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

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

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.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

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

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions. But I am friends with a lot of them, and most have armed guards with them or outside their homes.

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

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

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

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

I don’t think there is a Constitutional right for individuals to bear arms. But I’m against gun control. So there!

What better way to help health prevention than to ban all handguns.

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

Nothing in the opinion, should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.