Gun Accessibility Quotes

The United States homicide rate without guns is higher than most European country’s homicide rates including guns.

Firearms are a luxury.

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

We are for reasonable and sensible gun ownership so long as it's responsible in the way that criminals can't get it.

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.

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.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

One of the things we must do to begin to solve our hate problem is to put down our metaphorical weapons, our defenses, our special interests - and be honest about the role that guns play in this culture of hate in America.

When I say I saw shotguns and pistols in the house, I saw them. It was what I grew up around.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

I'm not comfortable around guns.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.

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

Pledge to ask if there is a gun where your kid visits or plays. Pledge to protect your children from harm's way.

I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.

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

Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the evidence is clear that it's the single most effective policy to help keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.