Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael D. Barnes

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Michael D. Barnes

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

Jason Reitman

I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

Hillary Clinton

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

Hillary Clinton

I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people.

Hillary Clinton

Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn't even require a permit to purchase a gun or register it or be licensed. So if we don't have action on the federal level that would have set off the alert, it will be difficult to interrupt the plans of someone like this who clearly, by the time he went and purchased these weapons.

Hillary Clinton

We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

Hillary Clinton

If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun.

Hillary Clinton

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

Hillary Clinton

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

Hillary Clinton

Right now - and this is something Donald [Trump] has supported, along with the gun lobby - right now, we've got too many military- style weapons on the streets. In a lot of places, our police are outgunned. We need comprehensive background checks, and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm.

Hillary Clinton

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

Hillary Clinton

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

Hillary Clinton

I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.

Hillary Clinton

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

Herbert Hoover

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

Ernie Pyle

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

Ezra Klein

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

Curtis Martin

I just think he was wanting to go down with guns blazing.

I heard screams and gunfire. I smelled gunpowder and I heard the groans of people dying.

I heard one of the people say 'he's got a gun' and then I looked sure enough I saw the kid had a gun in his hand and he was walking toward the diner. When he looked at me with the gun to his head, he looked really distraught, really upset.

I pulled the gun when I stood up, took two steps down the hallway and fired. His back was towards me,

Florence King

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

Fisher Ames

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

Fetty Wap

I love everybody that's with me. All these dudes from Paterson - nothing happen to none of us. We won't go to jail. I make sure we don't. We don't stand on no corners. Ain't nobody carrying when they ain't supposed to be carrying. We don't pose with guns in the videos; we don't leave guns in the house. You'll never see Fetty Wap posting no videos with no guns.

Fiona Apple

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

Francis Collins

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Francis Ford Coppola

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

George Washington

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

George Washington

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.

George Washington

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

George Washington

A free people ought...to be armed

George Washington

When firearms go, all goes - we need them every hour.