Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

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

I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think rifles and things like that are fine. I think that in the wrong hand is when a gun becomes a problem.

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

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

There are all sorts of shades of gray when you're working on economic policy and tax policy and health care policy. There's no gray on this issue, to me. This is a gun lobby that is raging out of control, that doesn't even represent its own members.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails.

I have an A rating from the NRA.

I support an assault weapons ban, and I'll tell you why. We already have one in California, so I don't support doing anything above what we do in California.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

No studies have been done to link gun legislation to declining firearms-related deaths, but you can draw your own conclusions.

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.

Like automobiles, guns should require mandatory insurance policies.

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

If abortion is different because it’s about life and death, so too, potentially, are guns, yet we seem positively loath to examine people’s reasons for wanting to own them.... And unlike abortion, guns kill more than 32,000 actually existing people every year.

Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.