Derek Cianfrance Quotes

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.

One cannot expect people to quit seeking new weapons as long as the tactical advantages of weapon are seem to outweigh the costs imposed by prohibition. The only way to make people give up their guns is to create a world in which guns are perceived as having little value.

I'm not uncomfortable around guns - I've hunted for most of my life - but bringing them on stories is considered taboo.

You never see a teaser for a film on television that doesn't have someone running around a corner with a gun. Have you noticed that?... I think Hollywood has as much responsibility for gun violence as the National Rifle Association.

One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

We are literally out of our minds to allow 2.5 million new weapons to be manufactured every year for the sole purpose of killing people.

Easy access to guns is one of the biggest factors in violent crime.

I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

We all know the NRA's position: guns don't kill people—grapes do.

Free men and women have the right to own a gun to protect their home.

All guns are capable of killing and maiming. It follows that all guns are a threat to public safety.

Why turn this country into an armed camp?

If people have assault weapons, they're going to use assault weapons.

Guns are our friends, because in a world without guns I'm what as known as prey. Almost all females are.

Too many policy decisions over the years have been made by men in closed rooms not thinking about the dead bodies. When bullets fly, people die. Pictures ram that message home.

A powerful lobby [the National Rifle Association] dins into the ears of our citizenry that these gun purchases are constitutional rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.

America should affirm and establish that in no instance should the guns go in advance of the perfect right.

We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.

I'm completely opposed to selling automatic rifles. I don't see any reason why they ever made semiautomatics. I've been a member of the NRA; I collect, make and shoot guns. I've never used an automatic or semiautomatic for hunting. There's no need to. They have no place in anybody's arsenal. If any SOB can't hit a deer with one shot, then he ought to quit shooting.

Self defense—a reason which is not accepted in Great Britain as a reason for owning a gun.

A well armed society is a polite society.

I virtually never use the term "gun control" because that would make us anti-gun. Everything we touch is unpopular and controversial.

Gun ownership. The Bill of Rights should be written according to what's appropriate now, not two centuries ago.