Angela Giron Quotes

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

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

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

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.

Wars are detested by mothers.

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'll never forget coming home after covering Sandy Hook. Seeing the faces of family members. The firefighters who could never unsee the unthinkable. Those tiny caskets. I came home, sat in my dark apartment because I didn't even bother to turn the lights on, and wept.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

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.

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 have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

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.

Assault weapons were designed to only do two things: Kill people and kill them quickly.

I knew he was getting ready to go kill children.

Whose child has to die next?

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

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

I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don't trust men that much any more.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.