Top 100 Quotes About Gun Control
#1. "Gun Control" isn't about guns. It's about control. If guns are outlawed, how can we shoot the liberals?
Mike Gunn
#2. It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
Si Robertson
#3. The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.
Alan Keyes
#4. This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder
#5. The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think - yes, it will, it will be reduced. There's no question about that.
Michael Moore
#7. When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren't thinking clearly.
Glenn Reynolds
#8. Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.
Bill Maher
#9. For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.
Robert Dallek
#10. It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.
Michael Coren
#11. I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
Juan Williams
#12. I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.
Rand Paul
#13. I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control.
Nia Long
#14. Anybody who's in favor of gun control is a fucking moron.
Jackie Mason
#15. Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms,
Steve Largent
#16. You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.
Michael Steele
#17. The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence ...
Joe Lieberman
#18. Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.
Sammy Gravano
#19. Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.
CrimethInc.
#20. Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer.
Bill Maher
#21. The downside to gun control is genocide.
John Ross
#22. When you are consumed with the rightness or wrongness of a given issue - whether it's fracking or gun control or genetically engineered food - it's easy to lose track of what the issue actually is.
Steven D. Levitt
#23. If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
Harvey Weinstein
#24. I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood
#26. Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
Bob Barr
#27. They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
Paul Harvey
#28. Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.
Lawrence Hunter
#29. Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly "free" state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.
Tiffany Madison
#30. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Jeffrey Toobin
#31. The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!
Dean Armstrong
#32. That's the moment I realized how incredibly lucky I am to have spent eighteen years with a man who can laugh at bad gun-control jokes whole a severed bear head is lying on his pillow.
Jenny Lawson
#33. Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Eliot Spitzer
#34. Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship.
Stephen Halbrook
#35. I don't support any gun control legislation.
Mitt Romney
#36. The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.
Thomas Sowell
#37. For black Americans, we know that gun control ... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.
Niger Innis
#38. Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
Niger Innis
#39. I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.
Wayne LaPierre
#40. If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.
Ted Nugent
#41. I don't get into the gun stuff. Some guys have guns who go hunting. Where do we stop (the gun control) at? I'm not a hunter, but we can't say people can't have guns.
Charles Barkley
#42. If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
John Dingell
#43. Gun control is not part of a strategy to defeat radical Islam or take ISIL down. However it is a problem back here at home. A million people have been adjudicated a danger to themselves or to others at the state court level.
Rand Paul
#44. Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common ...
Charley Reese
#45. I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.
Arianna Huffington
#46. I am certain that there are extremists on both sides of the gun control debate in Hawaii, as in the rest of the nation. However, it has been our willingness and ability to develop mutually respectful and effective gun control laws that have kept our community safe.
Colleen Hanabusa
#47. Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.
Ronald Reagan
#48. Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the catcher in the rye' and 'harry potter'?
Moby
#49. I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#50. Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle?
Joe Bageant
#51. Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell
#52. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#53. There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence
Kim Campbell
#54. There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
Debi Mazar
#55. Their bumper sticker read GUN CONTROL IS MIND CONTROL. In situations like this, you want to stick close to people in right-wing fringe groups.
Don DeLillo
#56. Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
Joseph Sobran
#57. There is no such thing as gun control. Only people control.
Dan Bongino
#58. The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.
Sheila Fraser
#59. Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?
Ani DiFranco
#60. Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.
Rush Limbaugh
#61. I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.
James Langevin
#62. It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
Bob Barr
#63. The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
Ann Coulter
#64. I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.
Chuck Todd
#65. Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.
Charley Reese
#66. The issue isn't gun control but state control
obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.
George Jonas
#67. What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.
Rush Limbaugh
#68. This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.
John Dingell
#69. The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.
Chuck Todd
#70. Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement.
Greg Gutfeld
#71. Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock
#72. Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.
Don Kates
#73. People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.
Charley Reese
#74. Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.
John McGinnis
#75. I'm actually for gun control
use both hands.
Rick Perry
#76. Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.
Don Feder
#77. Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.
Steven Milloy
#78. Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada.
Sharon Carstairs
#80. 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.
Thomas Sowell
#81. There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue
those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS
but they remain strangely silent ...
Bill Hicks
#82. Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
Ted Nugent
#83. The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
#84. Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
Jesse Ventura
#85. Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics who are armed and dangerous. And then he called for prayers in the schools and an end to gun control.
Jay Leno
#86. If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.
Chuck Todd
#87. Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
Niger Innis
#88. Perceptions of black criminality aren't likely to change until black behavior changes. Rather than address that challenge, however, too many liberal policy makers change the subject. Instead of talking about black behavior, they want to talk about racism or poverty or unemployment or gun control.
Jason L. Riley
#89. I don't want people to leave the show being upset. So if I am trying to do a new joke, and sometimes I will talk about things like gun control or hostile massacre and I notice people being upset I will change the direction.
Jim Jefferies
#90. Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
Jesse Jackson
#91. We would need less gun control if we had better birth control.
Richard Jeni
#92. Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
Cass Sunstein
#93. Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to exploit the emotions of uninformed American people for political gain.
Walter E. Williams
#94. John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws.
Gary Kleck
#95. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit. Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.
Don Gonyea
#96. If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.
Mark Steyn
#97. There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.
Anna Quindlen
#98. Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.
Stockwell Day
#99. Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.
Sheldon Richman
#100. Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Michael Badnarik
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