Aaron McGruder Quotes

These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado. But our response to it depends on whether that violence is understood to be terrorism.

I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.

We're allowing every Eric Harris, every troubled kid out there, to become the next Tim McVeigh.

It's safe to assume none of us actually wants to see ISIS-inspired terrorists armed with semi-automatic rifles, able to attack at will within our own borders.

Terrorists don't heed 'gun-free' signs.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

America seems to have a love affair with violence. America is the most violent nation on earth.

Suicide mass murderers, not suicide bombers. Horrorism, not terrorism

Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.

28,000 people were killed in the world last year by terrorists. Every death is a tragedy but we should keep this in perspective, After all, over 30,000 people last year were victims of gun death in the United States alone.

Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws.

The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.

Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.

Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.

On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.

I was born in 1999, just a few months after 13 people were left dead after a shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.

Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.