Assault Rifles Quotes

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.

A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon

You should not have assault rifles in your home.

The 2nd Amendment is the teeth of the Bill of Rights, and assault rifles are the teeth of the 2nd Amendment.

All Soviet People were trying to do something to help the nation.

It’s time to stop making arms to kill people with. It’s time to live in calm and peace.

Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.

We really don’t have a gun problem here as they do in Africa, Asia or South America. There people actually go to work with an AK47 slung over their shoulder…. In Iraq for example, every family is allowed to have one weapon and they almost always choose and AK47…. The United States, in contrast, has a very transparent arms system.

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.

I don't think you need an AK-47 [assault rifle] to defend your family.

I sleep soundly. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

I have been a hunter all my life but I’ll be damned if anyone needs a 50 caliber machine gun or an assault rifle to hunt deer.

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

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

In my village there was no chance to study machines.

Whenever I look at TV and I see the weapon I invented to defend my motherland in the hands of these bin Ladens I ask myself the same question: How did it get into their hands? …. I didn't put it in the hands of bandits and terrorists and it's not my fault that it has mushroomed uncontrollably across the globe. Can I be blamed that they consider it the most reliable weapon?

I am proud of my invention but I am not happy that it is used by terrorists. I would much rather have invented something for agriculture like a lawnmower.

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them. On Wednesday, a minority of senators gave into fear and blocked common-sense legislation that would have made it harder for criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get hold of deadly firearms — a bill that could prevent future tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va., and too many communities to count.

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

I know we don't need automatic weapons, but the question may boil down to what is an automatic weapon.

I don't see any need for citizens to own semi-automatic assault rifles, any more than I do nuclear weapons. Those aren't self-defense weapons.

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

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