Gilbert Parker Quotes

I acknowledge that guns kill people, but so do a lot of other things like starvation.

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Too many policy decisions over the years have been made by men in closed rooms not thinking about the dead bodies. When bullets fly, people die. Pictures ram that message home.

The towns such as the cattle towns that disarmed young men lowered the rates of personal violence considerably. Those towns … that did not disarm men tended to bury significantly more of them.

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

Remember, guns don't kill people - unless you practice real hard.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

I think guns are terrible.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.