Sara Gilbert Quotes

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.

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.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

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.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things. The only way you get change is to vote Republican.

In America itself, after 30 years of experimenting with the Great Society programs, there is widespread crime and violence, children kill each other with guns, neighborhoods are insecure, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.

Violence is a commodity in the U. S. and the culture of violence is toxic.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

I don't want to get punched all my life.

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.

Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

Violent behavior predicts violent behavior. Obviously not every domestic abuser will become a terrorist. If somebody is prone to violence, and also has radical beliefs, and also feels very slighted, that's when you have the combination.

There is no single cause of homelessness, and vulnerable people, those with mental health problems and addictions for example, need support not punishment.

I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.