Harold Evans Quotes

Every shot that kills ricochets.

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

Assault weapons were designed to only do two things: Kill people and kill them quickly.

England seizes our food whilst death seizes on our people.

People use guns but, in a sense, guns use people too. When we have the technology for violence easily at hand, our choices are skewed and we are more vulnerable to being manipulated into violent action.

We have had over 400,000 Americans killed in our country by guns since JFK and Martin Luther King were. That is more Americans dead than were killed in WWII.

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.

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.

I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with [ordinary] weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming..

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.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

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

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

I hate guns.

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.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

I think guns are terrible.

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

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.