Ted Cruz Quotes

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

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

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

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

I knew he was getting ready to go kill children.

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

We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children.

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.

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.

There are too many guns too easily accessible to kids, and we have to do something about it …. We no longer live in a society where mass murder … is unthinkable.

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.

I'm trying to push for common-sense gun reform and mental illness reform so we can make sure that these individuals that have a criminal background that are mentally unstable and have a history of domestic violence are no longer able to get a gun.

The courage and leadership March for Our Lives has shown is a testament to the power our young people have in this country, to make our country stronger while protecting our friends, families, and loved ones. The work survivors and advocates across the country have done to keep families safe matters.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

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.

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

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

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

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

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.