Gun Violence Quotes

• Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

  Stephen Young

  Gun, Doors, World

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• We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Teenager, Team

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.237, Metropolitan Books

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• We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

  Barack Obama

  Evil, Gun Control, Trying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Numbers, Issues

  Interview with Jon Sopel, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• Gun violence is real. People don't come back.

  Stevie Wonder

  Real, Gun, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

  Gary Kleck

  Gun, Criminals, Population

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• Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Rights, Law

  "Washington Navy Yard Massacre — The Aftermath" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Violence, Plague

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Life, Eye, Gun

  "Sandy Hook 2 years later: One senator's push for gun control" by Ashley Codianni, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.

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• Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

  Ezra Klein

  Gun, Mass Shootings, Talking

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• Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

  George Washington

  Gun, Fake, Second Amendment

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• Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  School, Gun, Two

  "Obama: 'shameful' Senate killed off gun control amendment" by Jim Newell, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

  Jerrold Nadler

  War, Mean, Gun

  "On Gun Control, Jerry Nadler Explains What Congress Could Do Right Now" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.

  Ryan Coogler

  Taken, Gun, People

  "Fruitvale Station's success a 'surprise' for first-time director Ryan Coogler" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2013.

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• To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Past, Gun, Assault Weapons

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• I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.

  Snoop Dogg

  Leadership, Wisdom, Song

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

  Donald Trump

  Gun, Law, Violence

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

  David Brooks

  Country, Gun, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Baby, Children

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book by Malcolm X edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, School

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Jobs, Children, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to use a gun as a tool, and I view myself as a victim of the legislators at the time who left me defenseless.

  Suzanna Hupp

  Gun, Views, Tools

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Today, Violence

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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