Pete Buttigieg Quotes

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.

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

I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

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

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 guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

I knew he was getting ready to go kill children.

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.

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?

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

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

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

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

The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

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.

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

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. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them. On Wednesday, a minority of senators gave into fear and blocked common-sense legislation that would have made it harder for criminals and people with dangerous mental illnesses to get hold of deadly firearms — a bill that could prevent future tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va., and too many communities to count.

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.