Rowan Atkinson Quotes

Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years — the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.

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

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

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.

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'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.

So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.

A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.

What can you do? More and more Americans are carrying a gun in the car. An ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example.)

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

I had a lot of time and the first year I was in prison, I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop the talk about the gun thing.

There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. We're not going to let that happen. Our inner cities are almost at an all-time low, run by the Democrats for sometimes more than a hundred years, chain unbroken.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

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.

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.

What a gun does to a person who survives is devastating as well. Whether it's the surgeries, I had over ten, the years of physical therapy, the emotional and physical scars that you endure and have to come to grips with the fact that you are different.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city. So we have the toughest laws, and you have tremendous gun violence.

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.

Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal