Barack Obama Quotes

Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

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?

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

The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

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.

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.

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.

I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.

The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying.

We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill.

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

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

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.

Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.

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.'

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.

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.

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.

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

We have more gun dealers than McDonald's outlets.