Hillary Clinton Quotes About Guns

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Police, Weapons

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Thinking, Gun, Giving

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

• Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Gun, People

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun...I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Common Sense

  "Hillary Clinton on Guns: Not a Big Fan" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. April 13, 2015.

• I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Business, Gun, People

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Hands, People

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

• 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

  Gun, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, America, Epidemics

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• I believe we can have common sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment, and, in fact, what I have proposed is supported by 90 percent of the American people and more than 75 percent of responsible gun owners.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Common Sense

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Men, Epidemics

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

• I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Gun, Hands

  "ranscript: Clinton talks Orlando, Sanders, campaign with Telemundo". Interview With José Díaz-Balart, thehill.com. June 14, 2016.

• 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

  Gun, Florida, Law

  "Hillary Clinton On Tackling Self-Radicalization: 'We Need To Get To Work'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 13, 2016.

• We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Violence, Gun Violence

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

• I understand that Donald's [Trump] been strongly supported by the NRA. The gun lobby's on his side. They're running millions of dollars of ads against me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Gun, Dollars

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Dangerous

  "Don’t Tie Gun Control to the Terrorist Watch List" by Mark Joseph Stern, www.slate.com. June 13, 2016.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, People, Safety

  Source: www.npr.org

• I believe strongly that commonsense gun safety measures would assist us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Safety

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Dangerous, Ifs

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you should not be able to buy a gun with no questions asked.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Terrorist, Fbi

  "Guns, terror, and LGBT rights: Orlando shooting raises stakes for next president" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2016.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Rights, Safety

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Military, Gun, Hands

  Source: time.com

• I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others. So I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  Source: time.com

• I think again we're way out of balance. We've got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Thinking

  "Hillary Clinton on Guns: Not a Big Fan" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. April 13, 2015.

• Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Gun, America

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

• I respect the Second Amendment. But I believe there should be comprehensive background checks, and we should close the gun show loophole, and close the online loophole.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Gun, Second Amendment

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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