Jackson Katz Quotes

I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.

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.

Where there are sick people and easy access to guns, there will be terror …. Maybe we should rethink this whole gun control thing.

There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.

We now know that gun-free zones, though well intentioned, do not prevent attacks.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

I'm someone who's seen firsthand the effects of gun violence. I've had to carry a gun to do my job in the war. And I know as well as anyone that this violence has no place on our streets, in our schools, in our concerts, so we've got to do something about it.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence anywhere else but America.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

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.

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

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

We must get rid of all the guns.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

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

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.