Colin Greenwood Quotes

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

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

If gun control worked, the District of Columbia would be the safest place in America.

What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

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

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.

If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms.

There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.

One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.

And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.

If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.

I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.