Wayne LaPierre Quotes

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school?

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

What we have to do is stop children from killing children.

I personally would prefer to send my child to a school where the teachers are armed … and prepared.

We must work to stop gun violence. I’ve consoled far too many parents whose children were taken too soon. We need to come together across party, racial, and religious lines. It’s time to take responsibility for making sure our babies grow up.