Rosie O'Donnell Quotes

If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand guns.

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think rifles and things like that are fine. I think that in the wrong hand is when a gun becomes a problem.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.

What is wrong with keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people?

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

We must get rid of all the guns.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Do you want to know where President Barack Obama is ultimately headed with his gun control edicts? Look no further than his second embrace of the tyranny of Australia's massive gun 'buyback' program.

New Jersey has decided that fewer handguns legally carried in public means less crime. It is obvious that the justifiable need requirement functions as a rationing system designed to limit the number of handguns carried in New Jersey.

We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.