We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.

- Wayne Lapierre

Laws can't control the lawless.

- Wayne Lapierre

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

- Wayne Lapierre

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

- Wayne Lapierre

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

- Wayne Lapierre

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

- Wayne Lapierre

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is nece…

- Wayne Lapierre

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

- Wayne Lapierre

Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.

- Wayne Lapierre