Lucy McBath Quotes

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

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.

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

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence anywhere else but America.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

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

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

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.'

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.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

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

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

I wonder why he shot me?.

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

There's a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don't get help. But there's absolutely a gun control problem in the country.

Mental illness and gun violence are not directly correlated, but when the two go hand in hand, Americans - often children - lose their lives.

I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.

We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.

There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it's important that we not stereotype folks with mental illness.

Many people with mental illness suffer in silence, afraid to seek help for fear of victimisation.