Michael D. Griffin Quotes

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

I was born in 1999, just a few months after 13 people were left dead after a shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.

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

President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

It takes only one person with a weapon to shatter a life, a family, a community.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

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.

I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?

I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.

The truth is that a number of us have been saying for quite some time that it was only a matter of time until someone went to a gun show, bought a military-like semi-automatic assault weapon with a large capacity magazine, and did enormous damage.

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

These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado. But our response to it depends on whether that violence is understood to be terrorism.

In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Fifteen were injured. And everyone - absolutely everyone - in the Douglas Community was forever altered.

Any idiot, especially one who is prepared to die, who has a gun, can start shooting up people.

Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.

Why don't you pass the gun around and give everyone a shot.

The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

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