Patty Judge Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.

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.

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

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.

The intense media coverage of today's campus shootings presents a double edged sword. On the one hand, it gives us a chance to think about and reflect on the causes; on the other hand, in a very small minority of unstable minds, the repeated telling of the stories can be interpreted as glamorous.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Where there are sick people and easy access to guns, there will be terror …. Maybe we should rethink this whole gun control thing.

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

You have deranged people throughout the country unfort unately, and they are part of the problem. …I see no reason to have a Bushmaster (assault weapon) in the hands of a deranged person.

Whose child has to die next?

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.'

If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would be tolerated? It would not, because in the name of democracy, to preserve democracy, steps would be taken.

Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.

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.

It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.