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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.

Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.