Gun Ban Quotes

If people have assault weapons, they're going to use assault weapons.

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here..

I don't believe a handgun should be in the hands of anybody.

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.

If President Obama had his way, the United States would be just like Britain and Australia, where handguns were confiscated and remain banned with little to show for it. Thankfully, the Second Amendment and the American people will not stand for it.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

I think guns are terrible.

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.

I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

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

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

Once they ban rifles, they're gone forever.

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

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

The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms

We will ban all handguns from peoples’ homes.

We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.