Top 385 Gun Quotes

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don’t hunt. We’re not gun folk.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

When the NRA wants to prevent gun reform, they funnel money into the campaigns of candidates nationwide to make sure they don’t vote for common sense gun reform. Insurance companies do the same to block Medicare for All and prevent us from guaranteeing health care as a right, not a privilege.

Our laws must be fixed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. We have to keep speaking out for common-sense reforms. If we do, we can beat the gun lobby and save lives.

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

‘Naked Gun 33 1/3’ I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.

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.

In the courtroom of science, if you have the facts on your side, you don’t need a gun – and juries would be well advised to distrust the case of those parties who choose to use weapons to silence adversarial witnesses.

Facts tell us that criminalizing private transfers of firearms among family members and friends under a universal background check system would do nothing to prevent ‘gun violence,’ and importantly, would not have prevented the profound tragedies that gun banners use to promote such a system.

Whenever the creation of a national, computerized database of gun owners is proposed, the advocates pushing it insist that people have nothing to fear because politicians will not abuse the enormous power inherent in such a database.

I don’t think I’ve ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma’s with him.

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.

Ever since I was a kid and growing up and watching things like the ‘Naked Gun’ movies, there was always this stereotype about how Arabs were perceived and portrayed. I’ve never watched those Arab villains in the movie and felt like that was me.

My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I’m in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn’t an election year, whether there’s a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.

The N.R.A.’s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks – devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster – is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.

I’m a Texan – my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

You can’t tell my fans that there’s a better rapper than Machine Gun Kelly… Hands down, there’s no way I’m not in the top five.

If you want to own the power of God at your waist belt, you should have a background check. If you are a domestic violence abuser, convicted, you should not have a gun where you could snuff out the lives of your loved ones.

If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

If you live in America, you need a gun, and I am not very fast with a gun, so I think I would walk out very quickly.

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.

I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun crime, particularly as it affects young people.

Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans – often children – lose their lives.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

So basically, you know, the first day on the job you get there and you realize everybody has a Nerf gun. They had, you know, the smaller ones that shoot the darts. So part of the rite of passage of coming to the company is you have to get your own.

We’ve had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

For more than a decade after the 2000 election, leading Democrats ran from their gun control past and bent over backward to assuage the fears of gun owners.

Being from Australia, I’ve never even touched a gun. It’s so not a part of our culture.

The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners’ ability to achieve success in preserving and protecting the Second Amendment.

Buddy Holly had something very different from the other great early rock n’ roll stars, whether it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley. He came across as so ordinary, as such a nerd. You know, he was a big guy, and he carried a gun. He was anything but a nerd.

I have seen and heard a 21-gun salute as my father is in the Navy, but that doesn’t mean I don’t jump if a gun is fired in my face!

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

I was literally sued – drug through court for two years by the NRA and the gun lobby – all because, in my city, we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn’t shoot guns in city parks.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

People feel very strongly about the Second Amendment. Their rights. And so if we can find, agree on, for example, that we should have responsible gun ownership just like we have responsible use of automobiles. Nobody wants someone getting behind the wheel that shouldn’t be there. And the same is true with guns.

No one rocks a heavy machine gun like Michelle Rodriguez.

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.

It was so odd to have young kids singing ‘Lovin’ Feelin’ because they knew it from ‘Top Gun.’

I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don’t remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don’t remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I really like musicals – ‘The Music Man,’ ‘Oklahoma!,’ ‘Li’l Abner,’ ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’

There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

As our city and country begin the long, rocky road of recovery from COVID, we still must avoid the pitfalls of another deadly public health crisis: gun violence.

Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

My first records were KISS’s ‘Love Gun,’ Twisted Sister’s ‘Stay Hungry,’ and Motley Crue’s ‘Shout at the Devil.’ That had immense influence on me.

As the former state speaker of the North Caroline House of Representatives, I helped push two landmark bills that protected and expanded gun rights for citizens.