Wayne LaPierre Quotes & Sayings

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections. — Wayne LaPierre

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed. — Wayne LaPierre

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer. — Wayne LaPierre

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves. — Wayne LaPierre

The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom. — Wayne LaPierre

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre

If gun free zones save lives, why doesn't Obama just declare Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan one big gun free zone? — Wayne LaPierre

How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame - from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave - while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill? — Wayne LaPierre

I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking. — Wayne LaPierre

Guns don't kill people. Video games, the media and Obama's budget kill people. — Wayne LaPierre

First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns
in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se
curity personnel. — Wayne LaPierre

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work - and by that I mean armed security. — Wayne LaPierre

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

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games. — Wayne LaPierre

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. — Wayne LaPierre

What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves. — Wayne LaPierre

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

We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory, instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone. — Wayne LaPierre

We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security ... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending ... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. — Wayne LaPierre

Laws can't control the lawless. — Wayne LaPierre

Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure. — Wayne LaPierre

I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security. — Wayne LaPierre

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy. — Wayne LaPierre

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. — Wayne LaPierre

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong. — Wayne LaPierre

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living. — Wayne LaPierre

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free. — Wayne LaPierre

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about, . — Wayne LaPierre

We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. — Wayne LaPierre

Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth. — Wayne LaPierre

Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography? — Wayne LaPierre

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk, — Wayne LaPierre

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense. I believe that we will prevail. — Wayne LaPierre