Chris Rock Quotes

They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence

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 concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

We have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn't have them.

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.

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.

We've got to get guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

One way to reduce crime and save lives is to target criminals who use guns with tough mandatory minimums.

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.

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

My personal opinion is that guns kill people.

I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

I do think gun control is important. I am a supporter of gun control.

The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?