Stephen Colbert Quotes

The gun lobby whips up people and makes them believe that President Obama or I are coming for their guns. Well, that's ridiculous. And he's said it, I have said it. But we do want to save lives by keeping a gun from somebody who shouldn't have it.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

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

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

No studies have been done to link gun legislation to declining firearms-related deaths, but you can draw your own conclusions.

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

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 do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail.

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

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

Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

Guns don't walk into a theater by themselves and shoot people. You have to look at who's behind it, who's behind the trigger?

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.