Ronald Reagan Quotes About Crime

• As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Home, Gun, Law

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.388, Best Books on

• This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Assault Weapons, Dry Up

• One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Running, Government

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

• This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

  Ronald Reagan

  Humanity, Forgotten, Crime

  Korean Airlines Flight 007 Disaster Address to the Nation, delivered 5 September 1983, Washington, D.C.

• Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if the rising crime rate, isn't due as much as anything to the criminal's instinctive knowledge that the average victim no longer has means of self-protection.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Gun, Men

• The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

  Ronald Reagan

  Success, Law, Criminals

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Long, Want

• Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Thinking

• For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

  Ronald Reagan

  Justice, Long, Criminals

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.340, Best Books on

• The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Groups, Death Penalty, Crime

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