Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.
I have my private security and they can look after me, but who will control the crowd? We are witnessing huge crowds during campaigning. If something untoward happens, then what?
Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.
I've heard many reports of police attending scenes of domestic violence where they've had to turn off music and televisions and radios. Noise tends to drive us a bit crazy.
Unfortunately, if the man who leaves the prison gates is just as likely or - as is sometimes grievously the case - more likely to offend as he was when he entered them, then we fail not only the...
There are too many guns.
The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.
I'm a person who's a big proponent of gun control.
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,...
Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the...
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules....
Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.
Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.
I don't support defunding the police.
The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.
If you're a terrorist, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.
How can we think we are protected if terrorists can move around freely, if weapons can circulate freely?
The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.
Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.
Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.
The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.
There's no reason anyone needs to have an assault weapon.
We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.
We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.
What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that punishment be real and that there be truth in...
If you are young and healthy and you are playing a sport, you are not at danger from Covid.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.