Jared Cohen Quotes

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

The courts may be the most important instrument for social, economic, and political change.

Gun control is not the answer. Culture control is the answer.

The duty of an American churchman in China is not simply introducing new ideas into the country, but modifying its industrial, social, and political life and institutions. Missionaries are the pioneers of trade and commerce. Civilization, learning, instruction breed new wants which commerce supplies.

I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.

Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.

If you want to change our gun laws, the best thing you can do is find a group that speaks to you and get involved.

We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.

No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we'll need to bring together the best from each corner, taking what works from government, the private sector, and our local communities and crafting common-sense solutions to gun violence.

What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.

Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to change.

We don't have good leadership. We don't have the right people. Everything's politically correct. We have a country that's lost its way. It's going to change.

I don't care much about the outcome. I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think that's in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That'll never happen because they've got all the guns now. At least they've got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision.

Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

I think the fact that we allow guns in our country is the main problem with school shootings.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.