John Hickenlooper Quotes

If - heaven forbid - a shooter did come into my class, I wouldn't want to have to worry about getting caught in a crossfire.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

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

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

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

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

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?

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

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

One of the really painful things we have found out about weapons carried by our kids is that they think they have to bring in the weapons to protect themselves.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

We've had an assault rifle ban in our country, and that did not accomplish the objectives. We had Columbine during the time that that ban was in place.

'Parkland' is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

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

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

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

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.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

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