Ryan Phillippe Quotes

I'm not comfortable around guns.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

Guns are not a defense. Guns are a risk.

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

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.

I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

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.

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.