Quote of the Day

"Everybody wants the right to carry a gun and that's dangerous in a free society. We should not allow that." - South Carolina State Representative Wendell Gilliard, quoted in New gun bill will mean more guns on...

"This, then, is what the NRA is terrified of: that lawmakers who don’t even know how to begin to evaluate the impact of the smallest, most random-seeming feature of a given firearm on that...

"(Schumer) really stood up and became a leader in the gun-violence prevention space. This is a really important fight to improve public safety and help save lives in America. We do need to use every...

"The main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial. Therefore, using a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if...

"It’s not easy to respond to an active shooter. Will be trained to judge when to shoot and when not to? It’s more complicated than running in and gunning down the shooter. When...

"When I was in school they used to teach us to hide under the desk in case a bomb hit. Now they're teaching children to hide in classroom closets from people with guns. Where...

"This data-driven story comes on the heels of a Gallup poll showing that Americans' concerns about crime and violence are at their highest level in 15 years, despite murders falling by an average...

"This period, before the outbreak of World War I, saw the birth of today’s American gun culture. Within a few decades, as guns became more prominent in criminal activity and suicides, an antigun culture...

“I’ll naturally wait and see what the inquiry recommends but anything that to me looks as though it waters down the laws that are in place now I won’t support and I will argue...

“Who in the world would have ever thought that the Legislature would intend to allow handguns to be carried in a psychiatric hospital? Anybody who thinks we should have guns there deserves to be...

"She seems to be a good kid, Sarah. And I don’t know what she really thinks of gun advocacy and political failures that have cost us all these lives and our sense of safety...

"Tubman carried an old percussion pistol for protection against slave-catchers and their hound dogs. This violated an 1806 Maryland statute, which forbade 'any negro or mulatto within this state to keep any dog, bitch or...