A Quote by Eric Greitens

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

Eric Greitens

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Eric Greitens
American - Politician
Born: April 10, 1974

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

Emmanuel Teney

You don't reduce crime by taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.

Eric Greitens

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

Gary Johnson

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

Rick Perry

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.

James Bovard

You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

Michael Steele

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.

John McGinnis

We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

Ted Cruz

Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.

Wayne LaPierre

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Paul Broun

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Paul Broun

It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

Rick Scott

...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.

Kenneth W. Royce

The gun control mentality is ruthlessly absurd. It suggests that you pass a law which will bind law-abiding citizens — they won't have access to weapons. Now, we know that criminals, by definition, are people who don't obey laws. Therefore, you can pass all the laws that you want, they will still have access to these weapons, just as they have access to illegal drugs and other things right now. That means you end up with a situation in which the law-abiding folks can't defend themselves, and the crooks have all the guns.

Alan Keyes

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

Malcolm Gladwell

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