Gun Ban Quotes:

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

- Michael Badnarik

topic: Gun, Thinking, Law, Gun Ban, Gun Law

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

- Joe Biden

source: Interview to Associated Press, www.nwitimes.com. November 18, 1993.

topic: Gun, Ideas, Gun Control, Gun Ban, Gun Rights

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

- Walter F. Mondale

topic: Gun, Criminals, Bans, Right To Bear Arms, Gun Ban

Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Real, Moving, Gun, Handguns, Right To Bear Arms

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.

- Rosie O'Donnell

topic: Gun, Thinking, Should Have, Gun Ban

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.

- Dianne Feinstein

source: "60 Minutes" Interview, www.youtube.com. February 05, 1995.

topic: Gun, America, United States, Disarming, Pro Gun Control

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

- Michael Moore

topic: Gun, People, Revulsion, Gun Ban, Gun Culture

... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

- Josh Sugarmann

topic: Gun, Giving, Safety, Handguns, Consumer Protection

There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

- Michael Gartner

topic: Change, Country, Military, Handguns, Gun Ban

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

- James Madison

source: James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott (1999). “The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.690, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

topic: Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons, Fifth Amendment, Militia

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

- Dianne Feinstein

topic: Gun, America, Fundamentals, Fundamental Rights, Gun Ban

I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

- John Chafee

topic: Gun, Law, Goes On, Handguns, Gun Ban

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.

- Major Owens

topic: Gun, Rifles, Acquisition, Handguns, Gun Ban

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Gun, Political, Misdeeds, Pro Gun

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

- George Mason

topic: People, Liberty, Libertarian, Founding, 2 Amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: People, Second Amendment, Liberty, Fifth Amendment, Militia

My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.

- Roger Rosenblatt

topic: Country, Mean, Gun, Handguns, Banishment

Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

- Glenn Beck

source: Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Hannah Beck (2013). “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

topic: School, Gun, Virginia, Expulsion, Virginia Tech

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

- Pauly Shore

source: Source: www.bendsource.com

topic: Gun, People, Belief, Revulsion, Gun Ban

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

- Patrick Henry

topic: Gun, People, Arms, Nra, Handguns

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

- John Longenecker

topic: Gun, United States, Bans, Gun Ban

...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents.

- Don Kates

topic: Gun, Law, People, Mental Retardation, Substance Abuse