James Langevin 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.

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

I knew he was getting ready to go kill children.

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

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

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

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

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.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.

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.

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.

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.

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

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

I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.

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

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

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

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

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