Joe Barton Quotes

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

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

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

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

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.

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

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

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

I knew he was getting ready to go kill children.

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

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

In the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a false accusation has made its way back into the media: President Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns. This claim is absolutely false.

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^

There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill.

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 watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

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

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

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.

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

America seems to have a love affair with violence. America is the most violent nation on earth.

Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.

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