Ben Carson Quotes

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

Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?

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

We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.

You can't put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.

I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.

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.

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

We must get rid of all the guns.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

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 do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

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.

It's fine to have armed guards, but don't then tell everyone else they can't own a gun.

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.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.