Gabrielle Giffords Quotes

What we have to do is stop children from killing children.

Whose child has to die next?

Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.

I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

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.

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

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?

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

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

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.

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things. The only way you get change is to vote Republican.

Suicide mass murderers, not suicide bombers. Horrorism, not terrorism

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

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.