A Quote by Roy Cooper

Background checks are an important part of keeping guns out of the wrong hands, but they are only as good as the information in the database.

Roy Cooper

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Roy Cooper
American - Politician
Born: June 13, 1957

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

Hillary Clinton

There's no reason that there shouldn't be universal background checks to ensure guns don't get in the hands of people who should not have those guns.

Jen Psaki

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

Gregory Peck

Background checks will never stop every criminal from getting their hands on a gun and every single act of gun violence - but the evidence is clear that it's the single most effective policy to help keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.

Lucy McBath

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

John Hickenlooper

I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.

Bill Foster

The Democrats really are not interested in keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists. They're interested in keeping you from being able to get guns.

Rush Limbaugh

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

Michael D. Barnes

Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'

Alan Gottlieb

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

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

George W. Bush

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

[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.

Jesse Jackson

The Background Check Expansion Act will help prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, and combat senseless gun violence.

Alex Padilla

We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right.