Quotes About Assault Weapons Ban

#1. I support an assault weapons ban, and I'll tell you why. We already have one in California, so I don't support doing anything above what we do in California.

Eric Swalwell

#2. You look at the violence that is there in entertainment, in video games, and don't just go say, 'We're going to do an assault weapons ban, and that's going to solve the problem,' because it is not going to get to the root of the problem.

Marsha Blackburn

#3. President Bush said he didn't want to renew the Assault Weapons Ban because it might 'infringe on hunters' rights'. Who needs an AK-47 machine gun to go hunting? Let me tell you guys something ... If it takes you 500 rounds to bring down a deer, I don't want you going to the bathroom in MY house!

Elayne Boosler

#4. Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

John Fugelsang

#5. I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Mark Udall

#6. The fights I fought ... cost a lot
the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

William J. Clinton

#7. 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.

David Mamet

#8. We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
[Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

Tacitus

#9. I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

Bernie Sanders

#10. New Testament Christians did not witness because they had to but because they could not help it.

Richard Halverson

#11. Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I'm basically always on tour.

Kathy Griffin

#13. To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

Josh Sugarmann

#14. So when our dreams come true will you marry me?

Tsugumi Ohba

#15. Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

Maxwell Maltz

#16. Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say ::

2109 fellow Goodreaders [can't be wrong] gave [King Lear] 1 star. Many call it boring. Some even say it is predictable and has no moral lesson. That these people have the right to vote and to procreate is frightening to me.

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis

#17. The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.

Gregory Kane

#18. When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.

Robert Dallek

#19. Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.

Bernie Sanders

#20. If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

#21. We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down.

Travis Bradberry

#22. We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Michael Nutter

#23. My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

LaToya Jackson

#25. I supported the assault weapon ban.

Mitt Romney

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

Rahm Emanuel

#27. 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.

Steve Stockman

#28. He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.

Sonya Hartnett

#29. Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

Iris Murdoch