Abel Ferrara Quotes

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

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

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

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.

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.

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?

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.

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

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.

I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.

Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

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. Culture control is the answer.

I knew he was getting ready to go kill children.

I truly believe that to write about it and talk about it is the only way to prevent it from happening again.

The worst effect of student violence has been to excite liberals who assume that behind every act of violence there is a condition of injustice, and who take it as their guilty responsibility to eradicate the cause.

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

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

It affects you when you get shot at, when your children get shot at. In our case, we had one shooter, a guy from Illinois mad that Trump won, and decided to come to Washington and shoot GOP congressmen.