Gun Owners Quotes - Page 2

• Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.

  Cody Wilson

  Gun, Government, People

  "Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel". www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2015.

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• I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.

  Aryeh Neier

  Children, Naughty, Gun

  Aryeh Neier (1976). “Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution”

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• Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry.

  Claire Wolfe

  Hate, Confused, Gun

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• If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

  Stephen King

  Responsibility, Gun, Car

  "CNN Debate: What Fonda, Cuban, Nye, Stone, Jillette and Patterson want to ask". www.cnn.com. September 16, 2015.

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• So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to own guns.

  Dan Savage

  Gun, Owners, Seems

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.185, Penguin

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• I'm a gun owner. I'm a strong second amendment supporter.

  Tim Kaine

  Strong, Gun, Second Amendment

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.

  Josh Marshall

  Country, Mean, Gun

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• If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

  John Dingell

  Country, Gun, Criminals

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• 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

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• 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

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• My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.

  Jerry Brown

  Gun, Rights, Law

  "Gov. Jerry Brown signs 6 gun-control bills, vetoes 5 " by Melody Gutierrez, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2016.

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• But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, United States, Joining

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• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Children, Gun

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  There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Law, America

  "Ted nugent unloads: Gun owners the next rosa parks". www.wnd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

  Adolphus Busch

  Gun, Nra, Owners

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• All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Second Amendment, Voters

  "NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

  Bob Barr

  Gun, Cities, Towns

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• I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.

  Naomi Judd

  Country, Gun, Middle Of Nowhere

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. January 12, 2013.

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• I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

  Bernie Mac

  Gun, Discipline, Able

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Law, Rights

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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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• Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.

  Rachel Martin

  Gun, Two, Paris

  Source: www.wbur.org

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