Eric Greitens Quotes

If gun control worked, the District of Columbia would be the safest place in America.

I see no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

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

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.

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.

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.

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.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

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

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.

It makes no sense for the police of this country to be outgunned by criminals or for our citizens to live in fear of criminals ... armed with assault rifles.

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

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

The class of people we wish to deprive of guns, then, is the very class with the most inelastic demand for them—criminals—whereas the people most likely to comply with gun control laws don’t value guns in the first place.

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.

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

No one should be allowed to purchase more than two firearms a month.

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