Ronald Reagan Quotes About Guns

• I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Home, Gun

• Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Gun, Thug

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: 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. 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

• Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Self, Defense

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

• I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, Jobs, War

• Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

  Ronald Reagan

  Suicide, Gun, Average

• Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gun, Thinking, Gun Control

  "Ronald Reagan".

• 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

• I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, Gun, Thinking

• With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Gun, Common Sense

• You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sweet, Children, Believe

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

• 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

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