Stephen Colbert Quotes

I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.

The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.

The only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe

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 think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with [ordinary] weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming..

For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong.

Military-assault weapons have no place in civilian hands.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

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

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

When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

I tend to agree with my husband, that to continue the conversation about something that is an important topic, particularly now, which is that of gun control, through his narrative, which is actually what's happened, I don't think it was a conscious decision of, "That's what we're going to do," but that's what seems to have happened, and that's not a bad thing.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.