Gun Access Quotes

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.

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

No one law or set of laws will end horrific acts of violence, but Congress has an obligation to take action and make sure that terrorists and bad guys don't have easy access to guns in our country.

Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

No legislation is going to stop a criminal from getting a gun, and anybody who says it will is wrong. Criminals will get a gun no matter what they have to do. They'll steal it. They'll borrow it. They'll have someone else buy it for them.

I think again we're way out of balance. We've got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.

This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.

Donald Trump has a lot of supporters with a deep hatred of Hillary Clinton and access to incredibly powerful lethal weapons.

Where there are sick people and easy access to guns, there will be terror …. Maybe we should rethink this whole gun control thing.

We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

Easy access to guns is one of the biggest factors in violent crime.

I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

We've had enough with loopholes in our gun laws that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.