“I just really question how prudent it is to allow 19-year-olds to carry concealed handguns around. We don’t even let 19-year-olds drink a beer legally.”
— Daniel Webster, gun policy expert at Johns Hopkins University
“To say that the states are moving in the direction of more severe guns laws, I don’t know what kind of figures they’re looking at, but that’s certainly not what we’re seeing.”
— Catherine Mortensen, NRA spokeswoman, referring to comments by gun control advocates